βYou seem...tense, love. But instead of asking whatβs wrong, I came here to show you something that I hope will cheer you up,β Chloe smiled as they both talked against the tree where minutes earlier her friend had spilled her heart to Sita. Then she pulled out and unfolded a piece of paper torn from a copy of one of her favorite books at the asylum-
The Great Histories- from her pants and showed it to her.
It was a drawing of
Thorfinna Klakkrdottir, Crown Princess of Caledoria, sporting red hair and wearing a battle sword and furs. And across from her, at what appeared to be their wedding, was Prince Zaidaan el-Aziz, then heir apparent to the Sultanate of Midvadir, in his finest silks.
βWhen Midvadirian traders established contact with Caledoria in the year 843, we called ourselves an Empire, raiding all over the world by longboat, but were still living in stone and mud huts, a people full of fire in our blood that we needed to survive the harsh cold and, deservedly or not, known for our temper as a result.
βYet, Zaidaan found Thorfinna handing baskets of fish to the poor by Radiant Harbor, and for her bride price he sent a thousand tons of gold- money that helped her and Caledoria worry less about food and free themselves to learn, to grow, to discover new lands peacefully rather than having to steal.
βLegend has it that when the two of them consummated their marriage, the whole world felt a wave of love wash over them and orgies were performed everywhere. Zaidaan toured with her through the known world, which she catalogued in
Journal of a Sword Sister with great excitement.
βAnd then she helped design the Great Aziz Temple in Madieca, among many other engineering feats, which became the Thorfinna Mausoleum when she died of black fever before it was completed. She is still entombed there to this day, surrounded by mournful statues of Zaidaan, his five later wives, his three children with Thorfinna, and his seven other children.
βOnce, two very different people were united by love and science and their memory lives on forever. I believe that can happen again, but more importantly, I always dreamed of having a Zaidaan- a man who would see and love me for me.
βI know I have a reputation as the goofy one, but I see you as
my Zaidaan- my beautiful, strong, noble woman who endeavors to rescue me from loneliness and has such love in her heart. I want you to know that I am serious about my feelings for you and believe our love story is the greatest adventure of my life, one that I know will live forever.β
With that, Chloe shrugged her suspenders down, pulled off the cloth around her breasts, and pinned Sita to the wall as she kissed her hungrily, too high and drunk to give a shit about what anyone else would think. Then the front of her pants covered crotch rode on her knee with a need she hadnβt seen from her before.