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The pure white eyes followed his strangely lit form as he moved across the rotunda and lay at the water’s edge. The woad marked female did not follow but lingered behind. Once more the black fae looked about the strange place, wondering at that strange light. She wondered how such a thing was possible, for she had never seen anything emit its own light, nothing save for the sun and stars—and fire of course. As her gaze completed the circle, she found the eyes of the mahogany male turned towards her. She nodded silently to his response. So this place was like a sanctuary. Once more, the female took in the scene, looking at it from that light. And she could certainly see how this enveloping darkness and stone, this strange and illuminating light, could provide solace for a wandering mind. "This place is most suiting," she said at last—as if he needed her approval.
Then the male’s tone had changed, and she looked back to him, her head tilted slightly. She wondered at that tone and at that bitter smile that he gave to her. For a moment, the female was silent, unsure of how to respond to him—not his words, necessarily, but to that sudden change. And then he had turned away from her, setting his head upon his paws. The female moved, and her graceful steps carried her over to where he lay. Silently, she lay herself down near him—though not too near to him—and turned her gaze momentarily to the water as she listened to its true sound. "This place is simple," the fae said at last, motioning with her maw to the cavern. "And simplicity is beautiful." The female never troubled herself with complication needlessly, and she loved natures simplicity
and the profundity held within it. But she felt that her words were nothing to him and was silent once more.
Cwmfen changed the subject, and perhaps unwelcomingly so. "I hope that I’m not keeping you from anything," she said, and her voice was quiet, almost drowned out by the soft, whispering echoes of the stream. And then she remembered what he had wanted when she had first bumped into him that day. "Was there anything in particular that you wished to know?"
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