The End of a Story

[MamaBearJade 2090]

 

Coughs echoed throughout a small cabin far in the forest. Each cough was followed by a shaky laboured breath. The poor descendant who lay in bed closed her deep forest green eyes as she struggled for her next breath. A familiar father figure stepped through the door of the room, glancing at her life long partner. “Ruin’nir.” The older elf said as he dipped his head. His familiar auburn locks shifting around his scarred and aged face.

 

The younger elf looked up at the man who had entered. Slowly he turned back to the struggling elfess in the bed. “Brother Hawk.” he said respectfully. His eyes focusing on his wife’s sweat drenched brow as she struggled for another breath. Her eyes slowly opening as she managed a weak smile at the man she had known her whole life.

 

Slowly the elder moved to her and sat near the head of the bed and cleaned her forehead as she gasped for another intake of air, before coughing tore through her figure. “Is it her asthma?” he asked Ruin. The young elf nodded before sighing. “It started as an asthma attack, a few days ago...then it got worse. She didn’t even seem sick until I sent for you.”

The young elf’s body shook as her body struggled to get one more breath. Ruin closed his eyes, gripping her hand as they watched as the sickness that had come so quickly, take her from them in a matter of minutes. Artimec closed his eyes before preparing for her last rites and burial. Ruin and their children dressed her and began sending out letters to those she had requested.

 

Their daughter, took a small book and read parts of it, wishing to have a few more moments of her mother still being there. Entries about Illyanora and how Liewyn found the mother’s corpse in the library. How close Artimec was to Arahaelth. How much she missed her father Katar, and how scared Leo was when they learned she was allergic to nuts.

Ara sighed as she wiped tears from her face, reading further about how her mother fell in love with the Terin brothers, he only friends. And how hard it had been falling hard for one, and losing the other. The pages of becoming related to the Tundraks, and losing her mother. Ruin moved to Ara and embraced his daughter as they mourned silently for Liewyn Aureon Terin.

 

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To Ruin

My dearest love,

I don’t know where to start writing this. I feel there isn’t much more time between us. I want you to know, I never regret choosing you. I love you with my everything. You are my true soulmate and I couldn’t have wished for a better friend to be my everything. Please be strong for me. Please keep close with your brother, and your family. You are a strong person Ruin, and you will accomplish great things.

I love you.

 

To Artimec

To Uncle Art,

Thank you so much for being like a second father to me. I am sorry for giving you so much trouble as a child. You were so kind to mother and me, and I wish I had shown my appreciation more. I am sorry I was never able to become a druid like her and you, I felt I could never be as great as you both. You two had such big shoes for me to fill. Thank you for everything.

To Calius

To Mr Terin,

I know we didn’t get to spend much time knowing each other, but I am so thankful for not only blessing my relationship with Ruin, but also being so kind. I wish I had gotten to know you more, but I understand how busy you were. I am so proud to have been a Terin, even if it was short.

 

To Tam

Tam,

I am sorry our last chat had to end the way it did. I wish I didn’t hurt you, so many times. You were my best friend, the one who had so much courage to spare. I wish I could take you back to when we were kids and you brought me to the tallest trees to look over the Dominion lands. I won’t forget the faces of sadness you hid from everyone, even Ruin. I will always love you, but I am happy you found someone. I hope someday you can forgive me for hurting you so much.

 

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I have had Lie for years and stopped playing her during a trying time in my life. I wish I gave her half the love she deserved. She was my most realistic character and the one who gave me a chance to know everyone in the Aureon seed and even the snow elves a little more. More letters were written but I couldn't really write more. Her death brings closure to a long standing grief I held on to. I will miss her and everything she was. Thank you to everyone who made her my most unique and challenging character.

[Kaelan 1918]

A soft sigh would escape Khiara Aureon as news of Liewyn’s passing reached her. It had been more years than she could possibly care to count since the two were young girls back in Axios who bonded in the forests of the Dominion of Malin. They might not have been related by blood, but in those woods a sisterly bond was formed that Khiara would carry with her for the rest of time.

 

Khiara would give a hushed prayer for the sister she had lost.

 

”How different those days were,” Lyemar Aureon would recall as he reflected on life back in Axios. ”Imbued with the values of her mother, the bow legged daughter of Lady Ara was a smaller, more fragile copy of the woman the Dominion of Malin had loved.” Upon recalling the memory of a younger Liewyn and her mother, a smile crept up onto Lyemar’s features as he continued his stroll through forests unknown. ”Aspects pray that you and your mother find one another, little Liewyn.”