AuroraElis
How quickly time had consumed them. Their life written in pages of a leather bound book for their children to open at will. Hers still writing but his, his ink had begun to dry.
Still damp from the dip into the pond, her limbs carried her across the center of Tephra. Their home. Her voice calling out to him. She had just left him here with Wound. Hadn't she? No. It had been spring then when she had went to find their son. Sure he was near the volcano, she traveled quickly to fetch him. Rou had been gone so long, he would want to see how his son had grown. Hastily she search but found nothing but trickery. A lapse in time and memory, she was here again. Amongst the now dried grains of fall.
No. No it... It can't be. Her vision finds him. Laying still amongst the dust off the kingdom. He was greyer than she remembered. Thinner. As her limbs carried her to him, they collapse to the same dirt in which he lie. Cream-laced lips brush along the lines of his weathered face, "Oh Rou. Don't go. Don't leave me. Not now..." But he is gone. Lost to the sands of time.
Resting her head along the length of his neck, she allows the red tendrils of his mane to dance across her carmel flesh once more. Tears well in the corners of her golden flecked eyes, damp trails beginning to cascade along her cheeks. No longer would he reach to brush them away. No longer would his embrace console her. She had never felt so alone, so hollow. She whispers into his cold flesh the same words she had whispered to him so many times before, "I love you Rou."
AuroraElis
Not all that Glitters is Gold