Gray princess

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.....If the night sky is devoid of stars...it's like endless darkness.

.....If the stars lack the night sky...it's like a rock without light.

.....If you were the night sky...I would be the star for you to embrace.

.....The sky and the stars cannot miss each other...and will be together forever.

A young woman's cry sang amidst a wide field on a quiet mountain peak in the night. It was the only thing that made her happy more than anything else. She had long black hair that reached the middle of her back and deep ocean blue eyes. She sat on the grass not far from the edge of the cliff and continued to sing over and over again.

When the sun went down, she would sit and sing like this every day, waiting for someone to come back like this for 2 years.

3 years ago

“Alright, it's finished.” A 16-year-old girl was busy doing her mountainside chores.

“Next, let's go collect herbs.” She walked into the house, grabbed a basket, a sickle, and a hat, and then walked into the forest to specifically collect herbs to make medicine.

meow meow

“Hmm, what's the matter, little kitten?” Two wild kittens approached the girl in a friendly manner. But the behavior is strange. They approached her by the skirt as if calling for her to follow them. The girl had lived in the forest since she was little, so she was well known to the animals in the forest. She was the same. Finally, he reached the top of a mountain where there was only grass.

“Why did you bring me here? Ah!” Soon she began to see something vague in the middle of the wide field, this person!!

“You better take care of yourself first.” She rushed towards him. The image she saw now was of a man the same age as her, with black hair and blue tints, and golden eyes, lying unconscious. On his right arm there was a snake bite mark.

“It might be a poisonous snake. You must hurry and remove the poison.” She used her thin mouth to gently suck the poison from the wound and then spit it out until the poison faded. She put the sickle in her basket and had two wild kittens follow her, who gently carried the injured person back to the house.

4 hours had passed in the evening.

“Ah, um,” the young man moaned slightly, his head was dizzy and he could barely remember anything. He began to look left and right, surveying his surroundings to see where he was.

“Are you awake?” A thin girl's voice came into the room with a tray of bread and soup on it. She carefully placed the food on the table next to the patient's bed.

“Where am I?”

“My house, or in the middle of the mountains,” she answered him. “You were bitten by a snake but I removed the venom. Eat first and then take the medicine, it will help reduce the poison in you again,” she said, taking the teapot on the table first and pouring it into the cup. Or was that the herbal medicine she concocted herself?

“Thank you for your help.” The young man expressed his gratitude from his heart.

“That's something to thank. It's more likely to be these two wild kittens. It helped lead the way.” She looked down at the back of her skirt.

"So? Thank you, kitty." He turned to look at the two wildcats behind the girl. "I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Lio. And you?" The boy introduced himself to the girl and asked the girl's name.

“My name is Xena,” she answered the boy's question with a smile.

And that's where it all started.

5 days have passed

Afternoon time is Zena's free time and is the time when she is most free. There's nothing to do. She just sat and sang all day long, today is the same.

“What are you doing?” Leo walked into the house and saw Xena who was about to sing.

“No, I just sing for fun. Just finished working.”

“Then come with me, please?” Lio approached Xena. He held out his hand and waited for an answer.

“Where are you going?” she asked him curiously.

“I want to go to the top of the mountain.”

“Uh, yes.” She extended her thin hand to his thick one, agreeing to the young man's invitation.

On top of the mountain, wide fields

“Wow, so beautiful. Here.” Lio admired the view on the mountaintop. The breeze blows on your body and the scent of flowers and grass comes along with the breeze.

“This point is the most beautiful point of this mountain. But did Leo feel anything at all?” Normally you would have to be afraid of this.” Zena explained the meaning to the other party.

"Oh, haha, that might be true, but I'm the kind of person who, if I don't succeed, won't quit." He laughed and turned to talk to Zena, who was now looking even more suspicious than before.

"succeed?"

“Yes, I would like to draw a picture here. Oh." After speaking for a while, Leo remembered something. Because when he first arrived, he brought a bag for drawing, but now it's not there. “Where has my bag gone? (It's been 5 days and you just remembered, Dad.)

"Eh, is there one? I don't see..." Xena suddenly stopped talking when she glanced at Lio's back. The original two wildcats were dragging something towards them. Lio looked in the same direction as the girl and it was a bag!

“Ah, I found it. Did you guys keep it for me? Thank you.” When he finished speaking, he patted the heads of the two wild cats affectionately. The intelligent cats licked his hand in response. Lio took out his drawing book and equipment but stopped his hand and looked towards Xena.

“If I do, that's fine. I can play with these two. Lio, go ahead and draw.” Xena pointed at the kitten and smiled.

"I was the one who invited you. Thank you, Xena."

At dusk the surrounding atmosphere changes with time and the sunlight fades little by little as the sun sets. It is a time when everyone goes home to spend time with their families. But Lio and Xena remained in the same place. Lio put his hand down, looked away from the book and put things into his bag.

“Are you finished?”

“Not yet, but it's already dark. I can't continue drawing,” he said. “Xena, how long have you been here?”

“About evening. Not as dark as today.”

“Then can you stay a little longer today? The stars here are very beautiful,” he said and stretched before lying on the grass, using his arms together behind his back to support his head.

“You say that you've been here longer than me.” She's been here longer. But he seemed to know more than himself.

“Uh, I didn't mean that. But actually I got here. It's been a week now.” Lio adjusted the other person's understanding correctly even though he knew she was teasing him.

“Yes, yes, hmm.” The wild kitten came to caress Sena again. Until one of them fell asleep on Zena's lap. Another one went to sleep on Lio's lap.

“These two Xena raised it?”

“No, I only know that they are lost kittens. His mother was caught in a hunter's trap. Before they can even walk,” Xena said as she rubbed the small animal's head.

"I think it's better to raise them. They're still young. They probably can't do much."

“Then I'll give it a name. There are both males and females.”

“This one's name is Sky, and the one with Xena is named Star. That's better.” He pointed his finger at the cat in his lap and the one with her, concealing his name.

"Sky and Star?"

“It's the sky and the stars. These two are brothers, right? The one with Zena was light colored like a star, while the one with hair was a deep black color like the night sky. Like I like it.”

“Yes, that's good too. By the way, is Lio coming to visit?”

“It's better for me to call it a trip. I ran away."

“Run away from home? Why"

“Since childhood, my life was precious to others but wasted for myself.” The more he told his story, the more his smile faded. “I can't go anywhere. I didn't do what I wanted to do. I can only follow the orders of the elders, study, understand politics. Practice self-defense Do this every day.

Until it becomes a daily life that hardly sees the future at all that I drew a picture Because when I was a kid, I used to secretly go draw with my mother.” His handsome face was now devoid of smiles. Not only that, but his hands were starting to tremble even more. “The thing that made me decide to escape was because I'm going to get married."

"Aren't you good?" Xena listened to the whole story and felt sad for him. A life that has always been imprisoned is no different from a bird locked in a cage, unable to fly anywhere, must always follow others, without freedom. Even though she listened, she didn't want him to say anything more. But he couldn't help but ask and Lio seemed to answer without hesitation.

“I don't know, I haven't met her yet. But if I stay to marry her We will just be a fundraising machine. weapon creation To start a war.” He said in a voice that sounded like he was about to cry.

“I understand you very well. I, too, lost my parents to the war.” A slender hand touched the young man's face as if to gently comfort him. When Laio listened, he stopped for a moment. Before the boy could say anything, the girl cut him off first. “My father is an old noble family.

He came to find love with his mother who was an ordinary person. They have overcome many obstacles. Father didn't listen to the voices of the people around him. Mother refused to listen to Auntie's warnings and ended up getting married until I came. But of course the people in the house did not accept Mother or me. So Father took us outside.” Just like Lio's episode, this time it was Xena who was sad instead.

Lio was the one who accepted the vent, but he let her continue talking without showing any signs of stopping him. Because at least it should give her some comfort. “But we were caught in the crossfire from the war. The three of us were hit by a house that was completely destroyed by a tribal fire. We were in this state for over a day…” She stopped talking for a while. Lio studied her face.

Now she tried to lower her head, but even he still had the clear water flowing over her. “I survived, heck, because of you two, heck, you used your bodies as a shield for me, heck. After that, Uncle took me. Come to the house on the mountain and he will take care of me. But that was 4 years ago.”

"Oh, I'm sorry. I suddenly started crying..." The girl stopped when the boy's hand wiped away her tears. Now he sat up. His hands were big. And it was so warm that it made her tears stop flowing without realizing it.

“If you want to cry, just cry. There's nothing wrong with that. If Xena is uncomfortable, he can vent to me. I will listen.” Tears that had stopped flowing were now flowing again after listening to his words. Xena could only sit and cry with Lio at her side until she fell asleep. And it was his duty to return her to the house.

When they arrived at the house, Lio gently sat Xena down so as not to wake her and put her in a sleeping position and covered her with a blanket. Sky and Tar followed behind and when they arrived they were lying next to the girl's bed. He looked at her face for a moment, raising his hand to smooth the hair that was in her face before muttering.

“In my life, no one has ever looked at me from the heart. never played with me Never trusted me, never loved me. Will you be like that, Xena?”

1 year has passed. Lio and Xena have been together, becoming one with each other since no time. Every day at the end of the day they go to the top of the mountain with the two mischievous creatures. He was no longer a wild kitten. Lio would draw pictures from up there or sometimes Xena would sing. They stayed until dusk, sleeping under the stars and then returning home until it became a routine.

And maybe it should be like this forever If the fire of war had not come upon them

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