krystalkatzficz | Your Grace part 99

Ohno processed what Nino had told him carefully showing no outward reaction to it. The news was troubling and he had to admit that his heart jumped at both the news and the fact that Nino his sweet little beloved had actually spoken with the lady of the moon. She was a legend, a myth, something that they told younglings to keep them in line. He had never imagined that somebody he knew would actually talk to her and confirm that she was real but he had no reason to doubt Nino. His lover didn’t know about the tree after all.

“And did she tell you how we may save it?” He asked and Nino nodded looking painfully relieved that he believed him and he pulled him down onto his lap and wrapped his arms around him his chin resting on his shoulder and Nino looked thoughtful for a minute or two and then whispered;

“She said thu ra dea deal de den maslahnem…evune gara vun…”

“And what does that mean my sweet beloved? I have not yet learnt the tongue…” he chuckled gently and again Nino looked thoughtful chewing on the inside of his cheek before he murmured;

“Um…I think…The closest that I can get is…’How it was created…When the moon catches the sun’…”

“…So even though you have spoken directly to the lady she still talks in riddles?” The elven king breathed his eyes going to the opening in the tent where the moon was still shining through. Nino hung his head looking dejected as he breathed;

“...I’m sorry…”

“You don’t have to apologise, beloved…The lady it seems works in ways that we may never understand…” Ohno told him kissing his cheek and hugging him close before continuing thoughtfully “That you have spoken to her is something completely wondrous…Even though the news she gives us is grave…I’m ashamed that I don’t know how the tree was given life…Or what she meant by the moon catching the sun…As far as our legends go…She never caught the sun…She just chases him...Never are they in the same sky…”

“They are…” Nino told him quickly getting up and going over to the screens that his father had sown. The story of lady and the sun but also at the end the image of Nino’s birth. Nino pointed the sky which showed the sun being eclipsed by the moon. “My sister told me and my dad showed it here…I was born when the moon covered the sun…Everything went quiet but I cried…The moon caught up with the sun then…”

“…You are right…And I believe that it is not long before the eclipse will happen again…” Ohno hummed thinking of the celebration that would take place within the clan. He supposed that was the time frame that they had but he had no idea what she wanted them to do “But...How can we use that?”

“…I do not know…I should…Have asked…her…”

“I doubt that she would have told you my little beloved even if she could…Did she say would happen if we didn’t manage to save her tree?” Nino pursed his lips clearly translating the language into the common and when he finally did it wasn’t what he would have wanted to hear;

“...The time of the elves and peace would be over…”

“I see…We won’t let that happen…”

TBC
A/N: I hope that this is okay ^_^

Your Grace part 99

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