People always do crazy things when they're in love...
[[It's finished.
Autor sits at his painted piano, one elbow resting on the keyboard cover, his forehead supported by his hand. There's a single folded sheet of paper in his waistcoat, holding the story he's just finished. Simple, but resonating with the author's feelings, it reads:]]
Once upon a time there was a young writer, and among the writer's friends was the Princess of Ravens. The writer loved the princess more than anything else in his life, although he knew she would never love him. The princess loved a heartless prince who could not truly love anyone until his heart was returned; and the prince, when he was able to love, loved the knight who protected him. Despite all this, the princess loved the prince, and the writer the princess. Nothing the princess could say or do would shake the writer's feelings for her.
One day the writer learned of a threat to the princess. There was an evil sorceress who wished to destroy everyone in the town, and might attempt to persuade the Raven Princess to join her. In order to save her from such a fate, the writer took on the powers of the knight who protected the prince. He could handle a sword just as well as the knight could, if not better--but these powers came at a high price, for each time he used them ten years were subtracted from the span of his life. Yet the writer thought it worth his power, even if he should die, for he loved the princess above all else, and nothing in the world could change his love.
[[He shudders. Rue will be livid if she ever finds out about this--both Rues will. But this is for the best, right...?
He lifts his head, raises the keyboard cover, and begins to play more passionately than he ever has.]]
Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
Autor sits at his painted piano, one elbow resting on the keyboard cover, his forehead supported by his hand. There's a single folded sheet of paper in his waistcoat, holding the story he's just finished. Simple, but resonating with the author's feelings, it reads:]]
Once upon a time there was a young writer, and among the writer's friends was the Princess of Ravens. The writer loved the princess more than anything else in his life, although he knew she would never love him. The princess loved a heartless prince who could not truly love anyone until his heart was returned; and the prince, when he was able to love, loved the knight who protected him. Despite all this, the princess loved the prince, and the writer the princess. Nothing the princess could say or do would shake the writer's feelings for her.
One day the writer learned of a threat to the princess. There was an evil sorceress who wished to destroy everyone in the town, and might attempt to persuade the Raven Princess to join her. In order to save her from such a fate, the writer took on the powers of the knight who protected the prince. He could handle a sword just as well as the knight could, if not better--but these powers came at a high price, for each time he used them ten years were subtracted from the span of his life. Yet the writer thought it worth his power, even if he should die, for he loved the princess above all else, and nothing in the world could change his love.
[[He shudders. Rue will be livid if she ever finds out about this--both Rues will. But this is for the best, right...?
He lifts his head, raises the keyboard cover, and begins to play more passionately than he ever has.]]
Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven