Part One (to be brutally honest)
In any land, there has never been more vain a girl than Ellanna. Most young ladies have some kind of superficial beauty, battling on the inside with insecurities about the perceptions of others. Ellanna always knew that she would stay beautiful forever. With such knowledge came the opportunity for responsibilities. The responsibility to keep her physical being in a state of regular fasting so that, in the unfortunate event that the world was robbed of her life, her body would be better preserved for long periods of time. Men fell upon her doorstep with showers of gifts and ways to try and trap her body and spirit, but no game could distract Ellanna from the simple fact that she was gracing these men with her presence, never the other way around. What man would not be lucky to have her as his own? Even the men that claimed they did not lust for female flesh would sing praises about her perfect beauty.
Ellanna often wondered what the simplicity of love was like. How a woman could strive so hard to be forever in the arms of a man. What must it be like to want to destroy your youthful beauty by procreating? The harder she tried to slow her thought processes to match those of the young girls around her, the harder it seemed to be able to grasp such ignorance. Ellanna had a chronic thirst for knowledge, a strength as well as a weakness. In order to better understand the feeble minds of the simple folk, she decided to seek out a worthy companion in the quest to discover what so many believe is the meaning of life.
Every suitor was judged according to career stability and physical stature. When she finally decided on a candidate, he was put through a rigorous year-long interrogation strictly by postal and telephone correspondence. The simple fact that the man was continuously interested in pursuing marriage after the year of no contact proved him the most worthy partner in her experimental endeavor. The possibility that tampering with a human being’s deepest desires and most vulnerable emotions could be a sadistic torture never crossed her mind, but she would banish the thought anyway if ever it occurred.
Ellanna often wondered what the simplicity of love was like. How a woman could strive so hard to be forever in the arms of a man. What must it be like to want to destroy your youthful beauty by procreating? The harder she tried to slow her thought processes to match those of the young girls around her, the harder it seemed to be able to grasp such ignorance. Ellanna had a chronic thirst for knowledge, a strength as well as a weakness. In order to better understand the feeble minds of the simple folk, she decided to seek out a worthy companion in the quest to discover what so many believe is the meaning of life.
Every suitor was judged according to career stability and physical stature. When she finally decided on a candidate, he was put through a rigorous year-long interrogation strictly by postal and telephone correspondence. The simple fact that the man was continuously interested in pursuing marriage after the year of no contact proved him the most worthy partner in her experimental endeavor. The possibility that tampering with a human being’s deepest desires and most vulnerable emotions could be a sadistic torture never crossed her mind, but she would banish the thought anyway if ever it occurred.