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His Wife Keria
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What?
Where am I? It’s so dark. Wait, a light? No, an image…
It’s
me when I’m four. Heh, I’m escaping my crib again. I never could stay in
place. And there’s mom, catching me yet again. She always knew when I was
up to something. She never figured it out though. She puts another spell
on my cage. But mom I can’t use magic. It’s not in my blood. Hehe. But
I have my own ways out…
Who-
it’s the speaker of the clouds. And mom? They're kissing oh if the queen
of the clouds finds them they will be trouble. I’m 12 now hiding behind
the pillar; I must have skipped class again. Oh how I hated school. There’s
Andrew ooh and Alice she’s cute…
Ow!
Now it’s a fight? It’s a blacktail, no a Forestwalker! It’s the raider
pack. They found me. I’m now 15 and they have tracked me. Leave me alone!
If only I had magic I would show them. Get up you fool. Get up and fight!
Yes. There’s two, now three. Look out Teague. He has a knife! In the chest,
so much blood, so much pain, how did I survive?
Seventeen
and I smile, so mom will not see my fear. I shoulder that pack that seems
heaver every passing moment to keep my hands from shaking. And I leave
that house knowing I will never see it again. So much fear, and sadness,
Knelled before the counsel of the speakers. I keep my head bowed. I never
see their faces. But I hear them, oh yes. That word burns hotter than the
river of flame; ‘banishment’ for what? It is not my fault what I am, the
bastard son of a Firepaw, and some Cloudwing. I don’t even know my father…
Nineteen
years old and homeless. Ah there a tavern up ahead perhaps I can rest a
night. No longer. What was her name? Guinevere, that was it. Such a sweet
girl, Never heard of Brightpaw before though. But, she needs my help.Here
I stand. Breaking back in to the land that banished me. To save a pride
that never existed. This will not go well for me…
Blue,
sky, white clouds dot the sky. My body will not move, I can smell the blood
mine and there’s, and that of all those that have died. What is that? Singing?
And, my pain is leaving but it’s getting so dark. Guin has healed you,
you can’t see it you have passed out but I see it. What happed after the
war of souls? Hundreds have died on both sides. The blacktail were strong.
But we were stronger. Lead by me of all people, the banished freak with
no magic; now a leader with power at his fingertips, And by the female
from a pride that never existed. They believe now. They have seen…
Now
20, and I’m happier than I have ever been in my life. Watching my love
Cynthia slip through the tables to my place at the bar. Still here. A night
turns in to a year, and then a year and a half. I have a home I am happy…
Go
away! I know you. You’re the demon peddler with the painting. Stop Teague
don’t look in it! Ignore the painting. It’s cursed. You have been staring
at it for 3 nights strait. Four months now and there still searching. There
is no body but they do not look in the painting, for there stands a faecat
in the back…
So
dark…why can’t I remember
Winter
if my 21st year, and the snow sticks to my fur. I hated to hurt that poor
girl…who was she anyway? Sin Cyn-what? I can’t remember. She said I loved
her. Yet I do not know her face, I must get away from here, dark magic
is at work. So much pain, so much hurt, I must move on.
I
know this place. An academia perhaps a few nights rest here will do me
some good. Softpaw! I know her, my old friend. So much has changed how
long have I been gone. I’m 25 years old now, a long time. So much has changed…
No-stop.
The light fades and I am in darkness again. But the best of the story of
my life has not been told yet. What of my finding my beloved Keria? What
about getting my job as the dean of magic? What of my child Oreanda? What
about all the good that has happed in my life? There is so much of my life
I am missing. Holes I need to fill. yet now I know, now I remember. In
a moment I will wake and forget this. I will go to work and live another
day in my life and when the day ends. And my eyes close again the dream
will return. I need to remember! I must "Teague" remember- "Teague love
it’s time to wake up" remember? What was I supposed to remember…


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