Lahat ng Kabanata ng Dreaming of Flowers: Kabanata 111 - Kabanata 113

“My flower… I hear you’ve had a hard day.” I remain laid on my side that evening in me and Erik’s bed, on my side, facing away from him even as I heard him coming into our room.The day had passed in a blur. I’d spent it with Chepi and the other servants, talking to them and helping them to distract myself. By the time dinner had come and gone, I had begun to realize I hadn’t seen Erik since yesterday, and now, I was feeling pouty about that. I had needed him today, and he hadn’t been around. I may not have realized it until the very end, but not it was bothering me. Where had he been? What had he been doing that was so much more important?“Delilah, are you sleeping?” I roll my eyes as I feel the bed shifting as Erik crawls up to me. “Why are you ignoring me?” He asks once he’s over me, brushing my hair away from my eyes. I roll away, huffing and burying my face in a pillow. “I could ask you the same thing.” Comes my muffled response. I knew I was being petty, but I couldn’t stop m

“Originally, I’m not from this world.” My dad begins. “I’m from the other world, Kalilain.” I furrow my brow at the unfamiliar word. It made sense it would have a name, I just hadn’t heard it yet. “I was born there… a while ago.” He rubs at the back of his neck, looking a bit awkward at talking about himself.“How long ago?” I interject. I wanted to know everything about him I’d been left out of for the past nineteen years and now seemed like as good a time as any. “Uh…” He thinks. “Three hundred years, I think, give or take a few.” I blink, trying to process this information. My dad was three hundred years old. “I’m still quite young, one of the few new generations of my kind.”“And your kind is…?” I ask hesitantly, already knowing the answer but wanting to make sure. “I am a Gud.” He says rather grimly, nodding his head. “But I’m not like the others. There are a few of us who were able to see the error in the barbaric traditions of the Gud species, and broke away. That is why I ca