"Yeah, Hazel. Forever and ever and ever," Rohan promised, still holding her hand. 

The whistle made him perk up, rather like a puppy as he turned to see where it had come from. A short distance away stood his Aunt Lily, and his cousin Yiva walking along side her. He always thought it funny the extreme difference in appearance between Lily and his mother Angela. Where Angela looked quite literally like a Red Rose, aunt Lily was as beautifully pale just like the flower she was named for. Polar opposites, yet still remarkable people. 

He waved happily and ran up to Lily and Yiva, Hazel squealing her other friend's name in delight at seeing her. Rohan thought it odd that Yiva seemed to shy away, but he remembered that Yiva was pretty skittish, especially out in the open. He was about to speak out to tell Yiva she didn't need to worry, but Lily spoke first. He instead smiled and waved back at Yiva as she waved at him before she was running away in a flounce of blonde curls.

"I kinda wish she would talk to me more," he said with a slight shrug. He looked up at Lily and grinned wolfishly. "Nope, no one has bothered us a jot," he said as he plopped down on the sand next to his aunt. "They mostly leave us alone. The big kids at least. Good news is, that the other kids our age aren't as scared of Hazel now that she's MY friend," he said. "Huh, Hazel?"

Lily smirked a bit at the young children and Yiva stayed behind her. This would be fun she thought. She could teach the young kids something new. She didn’t think anything would come out of it as she pulled out her tarot cards. “Would you two like to know your futures?”

Hazel tilted her head a bit. “Futures? Like… who will we marry and stuff? But only Oracles can do that and my mommy is the best Oracle.”

“I do love fortunes. It’s a bit different from what your mother does.” Lily bent over and kissed Hazel on the top of her head before she sat down on the ground. “Okay, Rohan sit over there… and Hazel sit next to him.” She pointed to a spot not far from her so she had room to place the cards.

“Pick a card, Rohan.” She spread the deck and smiled. “Then you pick a card Hazel.”

Rohan looked at Hazel and shrugged before he plopped down on the ground where Lily had indicated. "Sounds like fun," he said as he watched her place the cards on the ground, while making funny faces at Yiva to make his cousin smile. He patted the ground beside him for Hazel to join him before he looked intently at the cards that Lily had laid out. 

After a moment of considering, he very seriously reached out and plucked a card from off the ground. 

"Now you, Hazel," he urged. "I won't look at mine until you've chosen yours," he announced with a grin. He waited almost bouncing on his knees as Hazel picked her card. 

"Ready? On the count of three," he said, readying his card to flip it over. "One, two, three!"

On the final count, the two children flipped over their cards and Rohan couldn't help but grin. "Hey! We picked the same card!" he laughed, pointing to the stained glass-esque illustration on the card of a rainbow colored rose. "It sure is pretty," he mused. 

Hazel blushed a bit and smiled down at her card. “Okay.” She shyly said as she picked the card out and held it close. Once they flipped the card together Lily’s eyes got rather wide.

“That is a very… very special card for two people to draw.” Lily was shocked and it showed on her face. “The Eternity Rose is a legend here in Sularia. It only turns rainbow from white petals if two people are meant to be together. It shows a destiny of you two being married at some point in your lives to each other. Soul mates.”

That was a rather big thing for a couple of kids to hear but they would find out either way if she hadn’t told them. “People go through whole lives without ever drawing that card with the person they bring to me. It’s very, very special.”

"Oooh," Rohan said looking at the card. "That's cool. This means Hazel and I will get married later?" he asked eyes bright. "I like that idea!" he said enthusiastically. "Can we keep these cards or do you need them back, Auntie Lily?" he asked her looking at the pretty design. His question was scattered by another thought and he looked at Hazel. 

"Hazel, when we get married, where do you want to live?" he asked her seriously as he absently returned his card to the deck from which it had come. It had already become firmly planted in his mind that he was going to marry Hazel now, and that there was no doubt about it in his six-year-old mind. 

Lily was going to tell him that he could keep the card but she watched him with Hazel. “That’s a big responsibility, Rohan.” The Rose queen smiled at her nephew making Hazel blush.

“I wanna live here in Sularia with our family… I like it here in the lavender fields the most.” Hazel blushed a bit and took Rohan’s hand. “We can live here with all of our animals and families…”

She thought about it a little bit more and smiled. "Does that mean we'll be together forever and ever Ro?"

"All us Roses have big responsibilities. This one will be mine," Rohan replied to his aunt with a smile. 

"Oooh, by the lavender fields? I like that idea. I like the smell of lavender. It is just a very sweet smell. It makes me feel safe," he mused. "There will be plenty of room here in Sularia, especially for all the animals," he said with a smile. "Of course we will be together forever. Nothing could take us apart," Rohan said with the typical six year old confidence. He grabbed Hazel's hand and squeezed it. 

"And we will have the best house ever. Not at big as the castle, cuz we don't need that much room for just you and me, but something open with biiiiiig windows," he said pretending to paint the picture in the air with his hands. 

"And of course, we will have lots of flowers and we will have lots of animals, and all sorts of them running around the house, to keep you company if I can't be there."