the rain came down


All this talk with Duncan has left me with a stiff headache. Even after several bowls of hot sweet tea, I don't know if I'll ever believe anything again.

You see, it all started when he began about his bloody dragon again. And I told him I knew. I knew about this mysterious egg and the wizard and the works, you know. And he goes, "No, its not like that all, Enid. Who's been telling you these lies?"

Well, Axel of course. I know he can't completely tell the truth, sometimes, he has to embellish, you know. Its in his nature, but in the end I always believe him, some how.

"You can't put all your eggs in the same basket with a Changling around because he keeps changing." I shrugged, but he shook his head as if I'd told him a bunch of rot, and I had a lot to learn about.

"I can see, you've been through so much," Duncan nodded. "Its understandable, really, but you have to wake up now."

"Wake up! What does it look like, I'm in a fog, is that it!" He gets the best of me with the smallest of sentences.

And then he tells me...tells me the most horrible tale I'd ever want to to hear, but Duncan's been riding his sister's back all this time. Anya is his sister.

Really, its quite a relief because I don't want to say I told you so, but I fancy him. I want to say its a little, but it keeps slipping, gushing perhaps. I do wish this want not true. But it tis.

"Well, just don't go off on me like that, tell me what's going on? I thought you were in love with that freak'n dragon and you tell me now she's your sister?" Argggh...he better not be a liar.

"What I say is true. She's just like you. A dragon slayer." He got a bit weepy about the subject, and Anya started making horrible yelps as if she might be in labor.

"Well?" I waited wide-eyed for an explanation.

"You can thank your brother for this."

I rolled my eyes.

"You need not keep secrets from me about my brother. I already know what he is." I crossed my arms.

"At one time he was quite taken with Anya until he found out what she did and he couldn't have that. Not where he's from. And its been this way ever since. Just to two of us. I couldn't let her...I'd hate myself if anything were to happen to her." The tears were real. I couldn't help but be impressed.

I kissed the way the tears and felt for the first time he really needed me. We needed each other.

We could actually creep in to our essence with such freedom. A soaring I'd never quite experienced before. I was very much awake for the whole ordeal. And it was beautiful.

Except now I've got this headache. Axel better not have anything to do with it.

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