Queen Mab
“Mab sat as silent sentry as time slipped by both Benvolio and Mercutio, now resting from their tavern trip and dipping their hands in the bubbling fountain in the center of the square. She watched as observant as an artist who would later paint the scene from memory, capturing every movement with loving attention, the tilt of Mercutio's head, the turn of his cheek, etched as if an engraving in her mind.
So fixed was she, so enraptured with the life of her lover, that she did not see or hear the approach of cloven hooves.
"Why do you walk the day, you shade of evening's pleasure?" asked Faunus, looking at Mab as she clung to the shadows.
"I prithy, leave me be," she murmured. "My business is none of yours." "That is so strange," replied Faunus. "For by the sun, I do believe that it is." "I do not reflect your light today, Faunus. I come not for politics or pandering. Let me alone. I have no power. None can see me save you. I kindly ask that you let me remain here, invisible, to... rest in these visions of day." "Kindly ask? When have you not demanded and railed? It is as if the world has stopped spinning upon its axis. Tell me true and I shall consider your request — what inspired this change?" She held no power here. Faunus need only grab her arm and yank her into the sun to banish her away. And so she confessed, "I orbit another star in the heavens." "It is written in the sky that you and I shall spin around each other until time itself falls from exhaustion." "No more," Mab replied, staring at the man whose gravitational pull had lifted her to another sun.MoreLess
So fixed was she, so enraptured with the life of her lover, that she did not see or hear the approach of cloven hooves.
"Why do you walk the day, you shade of evening's pleasure?" asked Faunus, looking at Mab as she clung to the shadows.
"I prithy, leave me be," she murmured. "My business is none of yours." "That is so strange," replied Faunus. "For by the sun, I do believe that it is." "I do not reflect your light today, Faunus. I come not for politics or pandering. Let me alone. I have no power. None can see me save you. I kindly ask that you let me remain here, invisible, to... rest in these visions of day." "Kindly ask? When have you not demanded and railed? It is as if the world has stopped spinning upon its axis. Tell me true and I shall consider your request — what inspired this change?" She held no power here. Faunus need only grab her arm and yank her into the sun to banish her away. And so she confessed, "I orbit another star in the heavens." "It is written in the sky that you and I shall spin around each other until time itself falls from exhaustion." "No more," Mab replied, staring at the man whose gravitational pull had lifted her to another sun.MoreLess
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