Then, it was miraculous, that his eyes lit bright, and he grew a smile. Like he was really pleased, with just that. And I could not hate him, even though I did; I could only kiss him again. But he didn't even let me once, before stopping me, a hand to my cheek, and holding me back.
"Wait, a second."
I shook my head. "Cyric, I'll never forgive you. Not ever."
He was shaking his head too, touching my face, between kisses, but then seeming to try to reach for something else, at the same time, with his left hand, on his arm. "You don't have to. I'll never leave."
I inhaled sharp. Remembering to have heard these words from Cole, but it was so much something else to hear them from Cyric. And it was as if, I had memories and love enough doubled over. So that I loved Cyric somehow twice as much as I had, and two life-times worth—though I didn't know how it was possible, I could even love him more than I had, just the once.
I tried to kiss him again, and he let me, but then I felt something to my head, at the same time, his hand came to my cheek. I opened my eyes, and he was looking up, just once, and then at me, and he looked like an excited boy. So I reached up and touched my head, not needing to feel my crown, and have my eyes water all over again, remembering kissing his cheek at the lake, and thinking he looked just that way now, and remembering all those others times he'd returned it to me.
"Marry me, Ellia," he said. Before I could kiss him again or be blinded by my tears. Or he could kiss me again. No, in fact, he moved his thumbs, just so naturally to dry my eyes, so I could see him clear. He was all there beneath me, so that I could feel his chest, and heart racing, and all of him I needed. "Marry me, now, and don't say you won't."
I sobbed, but it turned to words, quickly. "Of course, I won't say I won't. Didn't you hear me at all, that I've said. Cyric, you don't know me at all."
But he didn't seem diminished by this. He only took my face in his hands and kissed me again. And I was sure that he thought to himself, that there was never a time, where he hadn't known me.
And I thought that too.
THE END.
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