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"You move close to me but I can feel a space Whatever time we have, I'm not going to waste Before we turn to strangers tryin' to love in the dark"
Tell it to my Heart - Paris Paloma
Aera 🥀
The ebony castle blocked out the sun. Her heart swelled as she looked upon the structure. She could only imagine how Leila felt leaving her warm, soft land to ride the rocky bridge to her unknown husband.
Luckily, that worked out for her. Aera had overheard them many times how well it was working out for her. It was part of the reason why she agreed to get on the ship with Jimin in the first place.
Aera smiled, thinking of her blood lust at the beginning of her journey. It was still there, simmering. Just in a very different way.
She would thank the pair later. After she ripped them a new one for sending them on a fruitless hunt. It was only on the way back home Aera had realized the true intentions of the King and Queen.
And it wasn't to find Nox.
She didn't say anything to Jimin, because he needed to choose his own path for reconciliation. She wasn't sure he would believe it if she told him he was forgiven before he left with Aera that day.
Still, their home looked so cold after visiting other places in the world. Rather than feeling elated for being back, she was fearful of what they would find.
She felt a hand slip into her own. Jimin. His cold skin no longer shocked her, but instead kept her head above the waves.
"Whatever we find, we will overcome." He said, his crystal voice serenaded by the lapping waves.
Aera turned to him, catching his features in the morning light. The sun was a torch behind him, a halo. Turning all of his features into white gold, everything and nothing like the god of night.
"Tell me things won't change when we go back." The words left her, more desperate than she's ever sounded. Her cheeks were red as blood, her heart pounding. She panicked. What if this really had all been a dream? What if she was still trapped with Nox? What if this Jimin, whose heart was for her to hold did not exist? She was breathless, "Tell me you won't forget me. Don't forget me."
"Aera, I will fall to my knees and declare my love for you before my innocence." He grabbed both of her hands, pulling them to his chest. The slow, sure thumps brought her back to Earth. "Though I'm not sure everyone already doesn't know."
