The Prince In Nature

Capricious

As both of us eating our breakfast from his early preparation in a feast table, we talk over as well my activities on what will I do before leaving and when will I leave in his hovel.

"Maybe in four months during the occurrence of the Agate moon, I'll surely in this place to never again take a hail.

During my stay here, I'll probably roam around and help you out with the chores so you can rest well and so that  I can pay you for letting me stay. 

Lastly, I'll try my best to not encounter with you to avoid unnecessary distraction and disturbance as I'm a dog myself being taken care for living a stray."

Telling him those words confidently with slight upset of the thought that in four months to go, I'll be leaving this place while bringing our echo we build unto meeting my ancestor for the sake of preventing an affray.

"Ok Enzo, I fully agree with you're decision you make with my full respect. "

"Just be at home, and make your own lunch  and dinner today because I'll probably be late in the evening from my important walk and I'll give you some things later on that you may needed for a moment and assist you on the preparation for your room while I also slide by to get it check."

My upset is worsen as I don't see coming any worries from his expression in what I said earlier, although I felt some anxious from him as if he is responding in a way of being rejected.

"Okay, I'll do the dishes and don't worry since I'll just find some work that'll occupy my boredom", I speak with a merriness of tonality after knowing of an overlook of a nonchalant of him can do also discreet shakiness that I thought he was hard to detect.

"Enzo, you can speak to me comfortably and casually since we will be living here together",  words that surprise me to immediately say "Ok then, Ares" while looking back at him to peek.

Jubilant in me take place for the whole day while distracting my free time, time quickly passed by that I'm now making some lively humming to my favorite traditional song while I was in my new so called "bedroom".

Eagerly cleaning and settling the bedroom by covering those motif parakeet sheet in his foam and pillows he gave that making me feel at home.

In terms of home, presence of mine will probably be shorter here starting from my first step while feeling the coziness yet emptiness that will surely be change because I'll fully make sure to filled this with enormous echo along with exuberance of a thick tome.

Memories of unending love and joy he experience with me that he may lookback and unfold , remembering it in times of the struggles he deal while facing the dome.

As I self-talk, eyes of mine suddenly looking the chevron floor as someone's stamp is getting closer to me while ascending the dirty coom.

"Is there anything I can help to you, Enzo?", concern and calmness I receive as the way he speak.

"No, it's ok since I'm on the edge of finishing it", as I said with his prompt respond of "I'm sorry for leaving you earlier Enzo, I was gathering some herbals in the Mountain of Renthuf",  reassuring words that I hear along with a tired voice and slight creak.

"Have you eaten yet? I can make you some food from the herbal  I bring", he added while I was on the verge of being lovesick.

"Oh... no, you don't have to Ares since I already eaten from the boar I hunt and cooked earlier besides, it also depart my boredom", as I said in casting away his worries that making me blithe from the mixed signals he bleak.

"You do know how to hunt? Then I guess, I shouldn't be worry now after knowing of the skill you have in hunting food that may help you also to defend yourself without any of my help", he said in a mix of a commend and blunt manner way as if I do something wrong that making me crick.

— 19th September, 2024

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Submissions of the 4th entry of mine with the tag #Shortys2024, the category of "Wattpad Poetry's contest".

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Poetry created by Ernestxx

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