Author: Evangeline, Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 8:24 PM, Post Subject: Heaven's Flower [P/R]

The fields of lavender were so much fun to run through. “Gaea!” She turned around and waved her arms as she danced through the thick lavender fields.

“You’ll ruin the crop if you keep doing that,” her elder sister scolded her softly. It made the girl stop and stare as Gaea began to pick various herbs.

“What are you making?” she approached her elder sister and looked into the healer in training’s basket.

“Me? Nothing. Master asked me to get her a handful of everything. Go figure she wasn’t specific about it. It makes it hard to know what to do pick so I just have to get a handful of everywhere here in the fields. Do you want to learn how to pick them just right?” Steady blue eyes met Gaea’s pink ones.

“YES!” She threw up her arms with an excitement only Gaea got to see. After all, she had to be a proper lady in the courts. “Teach me please?”

“Alright, just make sure those noble lady hands don’t get damaged… After all, you are going to be our voice… At least one of them.” Gaea’s hand came up and patted the top of her brown hair. It was always like the half-nymph to look out for her sister.

“I want to study as hard as you and make a world of changes like I know you will,” she bounced around a bit and watched Gaea as she picked the flowers. Her eyes studied how Gaea changed how her hand positioned based on the stalk or stem she was picking. Soon she was by her sister helping her pick. “Can you please go over to that tree and grab me some of those leaves? I know it sounds weird but Master does like them for various crafts.”

She obliged and merrily made her way over to the tree. Her wings stretched and she found herself floating up to the tree as her fingers grasped at the silky leaves. That was when the darkness ate her completely.

Gaea dropped her basket at the noise… Or rather the lack of. Pink eyes darted to where her sister should have been. “EVA!” Gaea yelled. “EVA WHERE DID YOU GO?!” Her heart rate went up as she ran all the way back to the capital and into her mother’s study. “It’s Eva she’s just gone.”

They searched and they searched for her. Every sibling she had searched. They searched the ocean, the fields, the town, and the outskirts. They yelled her name. They yelled her full name. Magi tried to find her. Valkyrie flew the skies looking. Not a shred of her was left.

After a decade of searching her mother finally called off the search. Rosenites were patient but they were not stupid. It had been long enough and with a heavy heart, Angela announced that Eva was deceased…

It was so cold but it was only cold for a few seconds. That was when she found the open skies around her. Eva fell a great distance but she managed to catch herself with her wings. She felt soft grass beneath her as she landed. In the distance, she could hear voices but as the blurred faces came close she found herself losing consciousness. What was happening?

“It… can’t be.”

The voice sounded so familiar to her. Without her knowing Eva had slept for days confusing the villagers into thinking something was wrong with her. Blue and lightly ringed purple eyes fluttered awake as a groan left her lips. It seemed like the voice was enough to make the young woman move. “Ga… Gaea?” She moved her hand to her head as the room went dizzy. The woman attempted to get up but the half-nymph almost sprinted into action as she pushed the angelic woman down.

“Don’t move,” Gaea sounded as if she was in shock. There were heavy tears in the half-nymph’s eyes.

“Why are you crying?” Eva batted her eyes and moved a slender hand to her sister’s face. “I don’t like it when you cry… but Gaea how did we end up here? Weren’t we in the fields.”

It took Gaea but a few seconds to catch on. “…Eva… That was over two hundred years ago. You’ve been missing for a very long time.” Her voice was shaky as Gaea fell to her knees. Lofe moved to support his ‘mother’. A steady arm on Lofe helped Gaea keep up.

“…” Eva’s eyes rolled back slightly more so out of shock but also exhausted still. The half-angel fell back onto the bed into her almost comatose state.

“EVA!” Gaea sprung back up finding the strength to stand on her jelly-like legs. “No time to ask questions. Lofe,” She whispered the order towards the warg and he dragged a chair over for her. Immediately the woman set to work.

Author: Gaea Rose, Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:49 PM, Post Subject: Heaven's Flower [P/R]

The seasons were quite bipolar in the Highlands. As promised Gaea had stayed there waiting for Olvar’s return. She knew it would be a long time before he would grace THEIR home again. The time spent in the small house had been filled with many good memories. Their relationship blossomed from a budding romance to something more than both adults were unable to say for the time being. Both of them had hard pasts that they were working on overcoming.

Gaea had given him a place to return to once he was done. By the time he would be back he promised to be something more than what he was. To the half-nymph it didn’t matter but she knew it meant a lot to the knight in training. They didn’t talk much about dreams or plans. Each day was fleeting and lived in the moment. Perhaps for both people, it was the best way for them to do anything. History had shown both of them how unkind fate could be. They had to live for each other in that moment… Whatever would happen after each day would be of their choice.

She worked hard while Olvar built things for them. After all, it was he who didn’t want to use the local villages to trade with. Everything they acquired for the house Olvar and Gaea had made on their own. Gaea had spent time nurturing her own herbal garden to make medicine with. Even in the deep winter she still found time to nurture it. Snow, after all, was the best insulator.

She remembered fondly the day Olvar showed her the work table she would spend many sleepless nights at making medicine. Warm nights in bed with Olvar, fighting over whether or not Lofe got to sleep with them. Fighting was an odd word for it. Olvar often times ended up giving in to the little runt staying in bed with them.

Lofe didn’t leave Gaea’s side often anymore. With Olvar away, Lofe was left in charge to make sure Gaea got sleep. He would pull at her dress and make sure she would get to bed in a timely manner. Washing things was always fun though. Forrest had a nasty habit of taking off with her undergarments. Something Olvar found hilarious until it was his own stuff being taken from the wash line. Shade did what Shade did best. It was like raising three toddlers on her own most of the time.

“Lofe, that’s your own paw in your mouth. Forrest, put that back! SHADE! Keep… doing what you are doing.” All three were good at listening to their ‘mother’. Though they listened to Olvar better. Especially, Forrest who was taking off with what she told him to put down.

It had been a few days ago that she had happened across a couple on one of the more well-traveled paths. The wargs were on the defensive as they always were with strangers. Gaea got them calm and realized that they had been injured. Doing what she did best she healed them with her medicine. She had thought nothing of it until that morning. It was Lofe who alerted her as he swerved back and forth as he usually did when he found something. Shade and Forrest growled with the unease of Lofe. “Easy,” Gaea whispered. The wargs didn’t relax by much but enough for Gaea to get a good look at what was happening.

“MISS!” It was the man that she had helped. She didn’t know how he could have found her until her pink eyes spotted the bird perched on him. He must have scouted for her. After all going on long walks with three, at times unruly, warg pups was a hard thing to do.

Gaea wasn’t one to trust anyone so all three wargs were at her side skeptical as much as she was. “How can I help you?” She kept her distance to the man and tilted her head looking for all and any possible problems.

“We found someone hurt and she is in need of medicine. She fell from the sky and our doctor has no knowledge of how to help her!” The man was clearly distraught.

“You won’t let them be hurt if I bring them?” She motioned to the wargs and the man nodded. “Fine,” Gaea had taken an oath to protect all those she could. Olvar would be sore for her about going into the village but at least she would have the wargs for protection at the very least. Going back into the house she packed some medicine up and different herbs just in case. She grabbed a book of common ailments and stuffed it into her bag all the same. Putting it over her shoulder she went back outside to meet the man.

It was a long distance to the village from the little house she called home. Gaea rode Shade the best she could but she was still getting used to the way wargs would move. Luckily, Shade knew and wouldn’t move too fast. Enough to keep up with the man and his horse. It was about midday when they reached the house containing the person she was hired to heal. She left Shade and Forrest outside with orders to behave, in her most mom voice, and had Lofe go inside with her.

Once up the stairs and to the room where her patient was Gaea dropped her bag immediately at the sight. Lofe was distressed by Gaea as he whined and pushed his nose up under her hand. “It… can’t be.”