Lotus of Broken Seed
But instead of an answer, all he heard was, “If you have chosen, I cannot deny it. When you are ready, let go of him.”
Itching for an answer, he asked his wife with a bit of force this time, “Lilith, my love, what choice. What are you and the Matron talking about?”
Lilith looked at the King, and she smiled. She moves her body near him and cups his face the way she did for twenty years, and gives him a sweet kiss.
Their eyes meet, and the King gets his answer. For the first time in a long while, he cries. His body is frozen stiff, not knowing what to do. He feels despair, an emotion he is almost entirely foreign to.
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