Wednesday: True Love

[langstonlover]

Hi Everyone!!! :) langstonlover here, bringing you your third theme of the week :) For our theme today, I've picked yet another of my favorite writing topics. Today's theme will be True Love.

This means today, anything goes as long as true love is involved ^^ You can have your characters out on a date, maybe getting married, or maybe even use some smut in your

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She heard the roaring of tigers and the braying of donkeys, drowning out the wash of the waves on the shore. The bracken rustled, as if these creatures approached. She drew back against the rocks, expecting something to lunge out at her, to leap from the rocks and pounce on her. Perhaps Thanatos had taken mercy on her and would send her a quick death: tigers broke the necks of their prey before devouring them. A pain that would be nothing to a girl who had had her heart broken.

The bushes parted and a shadow loomed up, a figure in dark garments, leaning on a staff. She gasped, drawing back. Had he come in this form to guide her into the Underworld with his own hand?

"Ariadne..." a mellow voice, warm, dark, like red wine pouring from a cool amphora.

"Lord of death, is it you?" she asked.

The figure chuckled, gently but amused, not mocking, but sensing some humor in the moment. He came closer, his dark cloak turning wine-colored as he emerged from the shadows, a tiger at his heels following him like a faithful cat, chuffing and nudging its head on the master's hip. The master reached down his free hand to caress the cat's broad, striped head. "No, not he, though he is a kinsman of mine," the interloper said, his dark eyes in his smooth, tanned face sparking with amusement. "And some of my followers find a pleasant death to their sorrows, in the pleasures that I offer."

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