The Fae World: Kalinia: Mirai: The Curse (part 4)
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“This is never going to be solved if we leave them to do it,” Leif said, echoing Mirai’s thoughts on the matter. “Honestly, I don’t think we’re going to have long if we have been cursed, so we have limited options. We can wait for our respective fathers to stop being idiots and start working with each other, which is about as likely as your ever getting along with the Duke of West’s son, or we can make our own decisions, because otherwise…”
Mirai nodded. “Not knowing what the curse will do is a problem.” She bit her lip. “One option we do have, as we are of age, is to just get married. It’s not going to be that difficult. We both have people who will witness it and once it’s done there won’t be anything they can do about it.”
“Would you want to marry me if it wasn’t for the curse?”
“I have no idea, Leif, because I’m not entirely certain that I ever wanted to marry anyone. Father was always going to be the person to choose my husband for me and you can see how well that would have gone. The Duke of West’s son?” She sighed. “You are definitely a much better option. We may not always agree on things, but we are friends and I think we’ll be able to make a marriage work, so I am willing to give it a try if you are.”
“Should we go ahead with this our marriage would unite two kingdoms. Is that something we really want to be doing?”
“Do you want me to be honest?”
“Yes, I really do.”
“At the moment I don’t care what our marriage would do, other than stop this curse from initiating. I know we’ve been cursed because someone wants us to unite the kingdoms, for reasons we don’t yet know, but I don’t believe that someone would have gone to this much trouble if they didn’t believe it was something that needed to happen.”
“Fortunately that is something I agree with. We are both our father’s only children and if anything were to happen to either of us it would cause great difficulties in both kingdoms, so I think that whatever the curse is it won’t kill us.”
Inexplicable Mirai found herself smiling. “No, it will put us both to sleep for a hundred years instead and when we wake our world would have changed around us… maybe our father would then think of marrying us, but I doubt it would happen for any other reason.”
Silence followed. “Mirai, you might actually be right about that, as it would be the most logical thing to do, and our fathers would know what it would be like to fear for their reign, because they would have no idea if we were going to wake or not. Once we’re married I think I’m going to look more into the curse that was put on us, but right now I think our best option is to do what needs to be done.”
Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.