Chapter 17 - The Feeling Of Want

>Nena

I woke up and found myself on my bed. Lazily I looked around the room but found that no one was there in the big dark room.

A strange feeling of loneliness bubbled up in me but all I could do was sigh in disappointment.

I guess Ma’s gone. I wish she just stayed with us here. I would love it if we all lived like how normal families do.

I often think about normal families and how they live but I guess normal would never really come to me for a number of reasons.

I looked out the window, it was still night time but I didn’t feel like sleeping anymore so I got down from the bed and went out.

The house was quiet like how it usually is but oh well, I’m used to it.

I walked down to the outer corridor, it was made of wood with pillars at equal intervals. The pillars had some designs carved at the very top and very bottom while the rest was plain yet the simple small designs added a lot to its charm.

One side of the corridor had the garden and a small pond. Soft blue lights flickered there and played around among themselves. I crouched down and began to observe them.

I was quite familiar with them so they didn’t mind my presence at all.

The other side had some plain grass extending a few meters to the wooden fence and beyond that was the forest.

While I was busy watching the blue lights play I felt something behind me, it was an odd unfamiliar feeling, so I turned my head and looked at the other side.

There was something there. I stood up and turned in that direction.

I kept my eyes on the fence as slowly a figure emerged from there. It was as if the figure came through the fence, passing through it like passing through water.

Hmmm?

First time I had seen something like that so I couldn’t tell if it was a good thing or a bad one.

I titled my head as it began to approach me. Slowly, as my eyes adjusted, I saw it was a tall woman with a beautiful figure and face, red lips, green eyes and black long wavy hair.

As her gaze landed on me she gave me a smile that felt very odd. It felt like she was happy but at the same time it felt like there was something mischievous hidden behind it.

“My my.” She stopped right at the edge of the wooden corridor but didn’t enter, “What do we have here.” Her voice was oddly sweet. She waved her fingers, “Hello lovely.” She drew her face closer to me, “You smell like my son.”

“Hi?” I replied when suddenly there was another person behind me.

The lady looked up behind me and grinned, “Quincelet.” As she addressed the person I looked back at him too.

“Mother.” He replied and then moved me behind him as if to hide me from his mother, “Why are you here?”

Why hide me though? I didn’t do anything wrong.

She noticed what he did, “For you to get so protective over someone. She must be yours. Am I wrong?” Her tone had a teasing element in it.

“...” He covered me even more, “Is there something you need?”

Is she perhaps dangerous?

The smile on the lady disappeared, “You look weaker.” She got a bit angry.

“I’m sure you’re not here to say that.”

“Come back to me.” Her eyes glowed green, “We’re magical creatures. We Fae don’t belong in the human world.”

“I’m different.”

As they both talked I just kept moving my head between the two.

“You are not your father.” She bit her lower lip.

“I am not you either.” He replied coldly.

She gritted her teeth, “You’ve lived here for years. What did you accomplish? I know our race lives for centuries but there should be a point to whatever you’re doing in life.”

“I’m staying.” He said and put his hand on my head. I guess it was to reassure me too. Not that I was worried. I know he’ll be with me always, we’re family after all.

“As stubborn as ever.” The lady shook her head in disappointment, then she realized something, “Wait ” She raised her hand and twirled her fingers, “I sense another girl.” She smirked, “Your muse? She must have left only a few hours ago. I can still feel her presence.”

“...” Suddenly I started feeling sleepy again.

Wait? Why am I feeling sleepy again? I looked at the hand on my head.

Magic...

“And yet.” She looked at her son angrily, “As the years pass by you only grow weaker.”

“I’ll be fine. If you have nothing else to say.”

I noticed that the argument was sort of peaceful. So I guess they both do get along.

“You didn’t give her a permanent mark. Why?” Their conversation was strange and there were many things I couldn’t understand at all.

“It does not concern you.”

“I’m your mother. I don’t want to lose you.”

“You won’t.”

“Just words won’t reassure me. I want the proof.” I wasn’t sure but it felt like she wanted to take him away to another world.

“...”

“Quincelet.” My vision started to get blurry as my eyes kept shutting even though I wanted to stay awake, “I’ll use force if I have to.”

“No!!” I screamed in my half awake state and hugged his leg. My scream startled both of them, “You can’t take him away grandma! I lo...ve… im…” The last thing I remember was sliding next to the leg I was holding and falling asleep.

But I clearly remember my feelings.

I don’t want to be apart from another person I love. If he goes away too I won’t have any family left.

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Note:There are many different kinds of Fae. While some have short lives, some have very long lives.. All the races of fae are different with different live spans but they all live in harmony in the magic realm.