Book 17.5: Chapter 2
“While my brother is blunt, that’s just how he is. Elizabeth, I’m reluctant to part with you. We’re best friends, but what my brother said was true… He soon will need to return to succeed the throne. Before that time comes, he needs to take part in a war between us elves… After he’s crowned, we won’t be able to be with humans. In saying that, we believe we will be able to join humans in the future.”
Elizabeth tightly held Vyvyan’s hands. She curled up on Vyvyan’s chest and wept. Her eyes were red from crying. She sobbed: “Don’t… Vyvyan… don’t leave me. If you leave me, I’ll have to go home and marry that old man or something. That’s not the life that I want. I don’t want to stay in the palace all the time, attending boring classes. I want to travel with you, and live with you.”
Vyvyan leaned in and gave her best friend a gentle kiss on her cheek. The truth was elves didn’t mind gender or age when it came to love. All that mattered was that they deeply loved the other just how Vyvyan felt about Elizabeth at this point. Who wouldn’t like a brave, kind and passionate young girl? Vyvyan didn’t want to separate with Elizabeth the same way she loved her brother, Inard. She loved Elizabeth. What Vyvyan was most concerned about was why she couldn’t marry two people at once. Elves would consider that to be betrayal, unfortunately for her.
“I want to, as well, Elizabeth. I love you. As the Elven Princess, I love humanity’s Princess. Our two races have not met in so long. We managed to get along so happily, nevertheless. I’m sure we’ll be able to get along just as joyfully in the future. However, it’ll have to wait until my brother is crowned and triumphs in the war. After he wins, my brother will reach out to humanity. When that time comes, I promise to search for you. My brother won’t be available, then; therefore, it’ll be just the two of us. The two of us will travel together. I promise you to accompany you on a journey across the entire world. We’ll definitely travel together!”
Elizabeth blankly looked at the peerless beautiful eyes in front of her own. The blue eyes and black eyes brimming with love met.She looked at the cheeks that were equally beautiful. The two girls who would later be crowned as the two most beautiful women on the continent were locked tight in each other’s embrace and exchanging eye contact.
The elf, Vyvyan, had always been by Elizabeth’s side. Although Vyvyan’s confidence and self-contentment landed them in hot water, her bravery and straightforward feelings for Elizabeth won Elizabeth’s affection. Inard and Elizabeth weren’t willing to mention their relationship again; or rather, Inard brought up what Elizabeth feared most: separation.
From the day Elizabeth received a grass ring from Inard, she already knew the day they separated would eventually come. No matter how blissful and how beautiful those times were, it’d eventually come to an end.
“Perhaps my little love story will end once I bid Inard farewell,” thought Elizabeth.
Elizabeth didn’t want for the days with these two elves to ever end. Alas, the day would eventually come, and that day was already so close.