25 Chapter 25 - Elvish learning (1/2)
Her name was Ash.
Kenji thought deeper, she had been a warden. Once designated with guarded the elvish prison that housed the evil spirits of the land. The warden had been egregiously wounded and was evacuated just before the humans attacked.
There she had learned of their goddesses capture, and while the spirits that gave her power were stolen away too, she alone had the martial ability required to fight without their support. She had tracked down the goddesses disappearance to the human capital, and there had found naught but her end.
Kenji was crying, unable to go any further. The woman's bravery was peerless, several of her companions having lost their lives along the way. In the end, even she had died, none the wiser that her 'goddess' was a parasite that thought minimally of her.
But he also remembered the good.
Before Violet had arrived, the elvish king had died a cursed being terrified of sunlight. His curse had infected the others of the royale family one by one, all electing to put themselves into the ground before they withered as their king had.
Including a girl, barely born before she choked on soil.
Seeing that same girl arise without the slightest fear of sunlight...no one cared that she was purple. No one cared that she was blindingly beautiful, nor that she could summon purple crystals while not even a single year old. She had united them, and without her return, the elvish people of the Sun would no doubt fall back into the curses clutches again.
Rubbing the tears from his eyes, Kenji left the room he had been hiding within to meet Violet.
Instantly she seemed as if a walking angel once more, absolutely perfect in every way. And that's when Kenji knew, this elf named Ash had been in love.
And apparently, was still very much in love.
The rush of emotions was as deep as the sea, as strong as a gale and as intoxicating as absinthe to leave Kenji swaying. His pupils dilated, his vision turned rosy, and all thoughts but Violet left his mind as soft as a summer breeze.
She was beautiful, sexy, wise and brave. She was noble, kind, romantic and fierce.
She was perfect.
”Kenji...are you ok?” Violet said with a hint of a gorgeous smile that pierced Kenji's heart like an arrow. Extending his trembling hand, he clasped them in her own and drank deeply of her mere image until his heart bounded fast as a rabbit in heat and his ears were filled with the bellows of love.
”Y-yes...”Ash- Kenji said. Pulling his hands away, sanity returned for only a short time before he once again returned to staring into Violet's dreamy amethyst eyes. Like pools of violet speckled with pinkish-purple dots.