The Tale of a Hybrid and a Siren (old version)

Separations in Different Directions

It was to say nothing was said when the dawn came about. Sora, Marina, and Vaeludar were silent when Sora discovered Marina confessed, she was in love with Vaeludar, and Sora's eyes burst into eyes and the following hours. Now Sora kept her distance from the two and everyone else. She cried silently and her eyes burst into a rainstorm of tears; her eyes became swallowed and red.

For this reason, Sora departed from the group. She headed back to the village where she grew up. With war brewing in the direction of Geraldus's village, Sora felt more needed at home than the hybrid. She didn't talk or say farewell; she hoisted herself to her pegasus and darted off.

Halvdan, Orinù, Alfhild, and Kelda saw Sora leaving at light's first peak, and she flew off into the horizon. They were confused as to why Sora went away while Vaeludar and Marina stayed behind. The camp Sora set up at night she willingly left behind for the campers to set down themselves.

Marina and Vaeludar only stayed on the beach until the dawn did come. When it did, Alfhild came walking to Marina and Vaeludar. "What happened?" she demanded with her hands on her hips. "A warrior of her kind wouldn't storm away while a fight is needed for one more artifact."

Vaeludar looked only to Marina, and she was worried. She did love him, and Sora gave signs for no women to get closer to him. But Marina was blinded for the moment when Vaeludar took her into flight, and it was when her let out her heart to her mouth, and she has no regrets telling the truth.

Vaeludar looked to Alfhild and answered, "There are more than one girl who are in love with me."

"Not the first time. Belverda and Ralenskrit..."

"Not like that, Sora and Marina would have been in a fight over me."

Alfhild blinked: two girls loving one man. Or a hybrid.

"Both girls are in love with me, and Marina was the first to have struck first. She confessed to me last night, and Sora witnessed it. I didn't say anything. Marina didn't say anything. I don't know in a situation like this. A girl confessing to me and the other witnessing it, and everything is silent. Sora clearly was crushed when Marina got to me first, and Sora has gone back to her father's house. Clearly, I can only love one girl, and I cannot love the other in equal with the other."

Alfhild loosened her hostility and looked to Marina. "You love him?"

Marina nodded her head in silent and with confidence in her eyes, and Alfhild looked back at the hybrid.

"And Sora?"

Vaeludar moved his head to Marina and shook his head. "I only can see Sora as a sister as I already found the woman who captured me first, even if Sora was to be the first to confess her love to me."

Alfhild understood what was happening. Three was a love difference. Marina and Sora love the same hybrid, and Vaeludar only had one love he was looking at: Marina. He couldn't love Sora the same way as he was only seeing her as a sibling he grew up with since Sora was younger by two or three years.

The elf walked away to join the others behind her and notify them of the reason Sora suddenly left. They all looked with plain faces, took a quick glance at the hybrid and the siren, and back at the elf. They spoke softly, so that Vaeludar couldn't hear what they were saying. If their voices were humans, Vaeludar could pick up what they're saying. However, their soft tone whispers he can't hear.

"What happens now?" asked Marina.

Vaeludar gazed to the east as the sun was rising behind the small bits of land. It was a red sunrise, and it felt blood has been spilled during the night. The thick clouds sparked a velvet clarity to the hybrid's eyes. "We all have a choice to make in life. I still have my mission to do. I still have a future to think about everyone."