The Cruel Prince Loves Her so She Agrees to Save the World

A surprise

Theo and Rion walk back to their room. It's been a long day with so much information to be taken in and processed all Rion wanted to do was relax and decompress. She could barely breathe feeling so suffocated by all the change and weight if responsibility she's been assigned. She really needed some air. Rion opens a window and looks at out and inhales deeply through her nose smelling the crips cool autumn air. Summer had just ended, so it wasn't cold during the day, but the nights could get a little chilly.

She started to think about her and Theo and what all this meant.

Like the fact their bond was as strong as it is because he's meant to be her anchor here in this world.

Being the physical vessel of a god and basically an entirely different world is a lot to be told in one afternoon.

And what about the entity the made possessed by nothing? That sounds entirely made up, like, how can nothing possess something?  A being made up of entirely negative emotions and thoughts? How is that possible? What could that even look like? So many questions running through their minds.

Theo was also taking the time to enjoy the silence. It was refreshing, it felt like he could put down some of his burdens take a rest. Neither of them having had time to process the events of today, let alone the past week. It was soothing for them both to hear no one but themselves thinking. To just exist in quiet with each other.

When Marcy enter the room she places cookies and milk on the table in the middle of her sitting area and two glasses of water. She went to the fire place and starter a fire. Marcy reading the room, takes her leave quickly and quietly.

Theo excuses himself to write to his father what he can about their plans and the wedding information, he knows his father is unable to come, he is holding back the monsters and the Rot and to head to the shower with out him.

She takes this opportunity to just be alone. To breathe and maybe not think for a bit. The hot water pouring from the ceiling over her body. She sat under it her eyes closed and her legs crossed as she meditated. For the first time in years she meditated. Placing the back of her hands on her knees she focused on freeing her mind and breathing. She needed to find her center again. Realign herself. Minutes go by and she finds the space inside her mind. Her space is peaceful. A single purple faery blossom tree. The bark was strong and grey, the leaves white with purple flowers shaped like dancing faeries the tree sat on a little island with soft clovers covering the ground. The tree had a single swing on its branch. Surrounded by a lake with the clearest of blue water. Her minds eye was beautiful. She went to swing and started to hum. The peace that laid in here was exactly what she needed right now.

She sat in the shower for over an hour when Theo came in to find her glowing purple again. But this was a different purple it was a soft lavender with a little bit of pink weaving through it. Concerned he reached out to her.

T: Rion are you there?

Nothing

T: Rion?

A little more concerned with her not responding but feeling a bit relieved to see her aura and body look relaxed. He takes off his clothes and puts on a thin robe and steps into the shower with her. Her shower was made of stone. Water fell like rain from the ceiling. He sat next to her a tried touching the mark on her palm with his.

Then he was sucked into her minds eye.

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Orion

"Hey Little bunny"

"How are you here?" I ask him "why are you here?"

"Where is here?" Theo asked her.