"When was the last time you were happy?"
Adelphin pauses mid-stride as the question is posed. Verinthis, however, runs ahead in the wood, happily chasing a butterfly with his net amidst the rays of the afternoon sun filtering through the trees. While she does not answer immediately, a soft smile touches her lips when she does.
“I am happy now.”
She chances a glance at Anierous.
“I’ve been away for a long time, away from my family. You don’t know how glad I am to have returned, when I thought that I would never see Azeroth again. True, I’m exiled from home. True, that my late husband remarried and had a child who does not carry my own blood, but… I don’t blame him. He’s gone anyway. I don’t blame our kin for what they did. I don’t blame the blood knights for what you had to do either. Maybe if I never left, I’d have done the same - who can tell now?
“What I do know is that I can’t dwell on the things that make me unhappy. I can’t dwell on the past, on what-ifs and what-has-beens. I owe it to the people I have sworn my entire life to protect, even if I am nothing to them. I owe it to my son.
“Most of all, I owe it to myself to carry on, and cherish these moments when they come along, because life is, indeed, shorter than our actual lifespans, with how we are living it now.”
(Thanks @anierous-sunblade <3 )
