Hearts and Ashes
I fought the urge to pull her closer, to kiss her, to wrap her in my arms and never let go.
"Thrystan..." she whispered, her voice breaking, and I thought for sure this was the moment—when the truth would spill, and everything between us would change. The air felt thick, charged with something neither of us could fully grasp.
But just then, a sudden rustle from the bushes startled us both. We turned, our heads snapping to the side, and the moment shattered like glass. Arwyn scrambled to her feet in a panic, her movements so quick and clumsy that she forgot her surroundings. She stood before me, drenched from the spring, her thin underdress clinging to her body.
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