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Post by Shhasow on Jun 2, 2011 22:36:17 GMT 10
Title: Bitter Rating: G Word Count: 250 Pairing: Kel/Wyldon
Wyldon knows he tortures himself, but he is weak.
He finds excuses, valid ones, to be where she is, to hear her dry wit, to see the steady form that is beautiful to him.
He is a better person in her presence, and a worse.
If he were a good man, an honorable knight, he would not watch Keladry from the distance of a crowded ball room as she dances gracefully with one of her yearmates.
If Goldenlake could be believed, she and Hollyrose were lovers.
Therefore, Wyldon knows it’s useless as he approaches the couple and takes her from the arms of the boy. She looks up at him with emotion shining from her eyes, but that’s worse than seeing nothing, for her respect and admiration of a superior tastes bitter in his mouth. Nor are the suspicious and alarmed glances of her paramour any sweeter, for surely the foolish boy knows that Keladry sees her old training master and commander as a statue - or a stump - worthy to esteem and emulate, but hardly human at all. That the boy doesn’t know this of the woman he claims to love makes Wyldon’s gorge rise. Keladry deserves more.
Still, dogs mark their territory, and Wyldon is encroaching. Hollyrose’s hackles are raised.
When he says goodbye to her, she doesn’t know that it’s final. Soon after the last burning touch of her skin dies away, Wyldon finds the king and secures retirement back to Cavall, his dogs, and his wife.
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Post by ubiquitous on Jun 3, 2011 0:07:29 GMT 10
Aww. I adore Wyldon's thoughts in this, and the ending.
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Post by Alliecat on Jun 3, 2011 2:10:19 GMT 10
Very cute! I like how Wyldon thinks that Kel deserves better than Merric, and that the feeling is strong enough to drive him away.
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