The Price of Freedom
“Mischa had been a guardian long enough to know this truth in her bones.
Being with Rafe was a joy so deep she could never tire of it, never be completely satisfied by their joining. She’d surrendered herself to him and their love, and yet…She sighed and trickled sand through her fingers.
The price of her and Rafe’s happiness was the suffering of the people she wasn’t free to guard, people like Ilias. Rafe had stolen time for them to love, but at the cost of her duty. Before Rafe, being a guardi...an had defined her. Now that identity had been taken from her. Love changed everything.
Love. Mischa sat watching the uncertain nest-building of a young pair of turtledoves. The scent of orange blossom wove around her as the desert wind stirred the orange grove. Cicadas chirruped in the trees. She was alone. Rafe had called a hawk from the air and was hunting with it at the edge of the desert, enjoying the age-old art of falconry.
They had learned to give one another space. Rafe showed an unexpected passion for entomology, studying the insects of the oasis and desert fringe.MoreLess
Being with Rafe was a joy so deep she could never tire of it, never be completely satisfied by their joining. She’d surrendered herself to him and their love, and yet…She sighed and trickled sand through her fingers.
The price of her and Rafe’s happiness was the suffering of the people she wasn’t free to guard, people like Ilias. Rafe had stolen time for them to love, but at the cost of her duty. Before Rafe, being a guardi...an had defined her. Now that identity had been taken from her. Love changed everything.
Love. Mischa sat watching the uncertain nest-building of a young pair of turtledoves. The scent of orange blossom wove around her as the desert wind stirred the orange grove. Cicadas chirruped in the trees. She was alone. Rafe had called a hawk from the air and was hunting with it at the edge of the desert, enjoying the age-old art of falconry.
They had learned to give one another space. Rafe showed an unexpected passion for entomology, studying the insects of the oasis and desert fringe.MoreLess
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