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It was a confession of feeling. It was a proposal. It was, in every sense, a request for marriage.
Ketal fell silent, and in that quiet, Arkemis felt her heart race so violently it almost hurt.
Why… isn’t he saying anything? she wondered. Does he not like me? Is he searching for words to turn me down?
Arkemis wondered if she had spoken too soon. She questioned whether she should have waited, gathered more moments of intimacy, shared more feelings, and only then asked. Her thoughts tangled into a tight knot, and she trembled as she forced herself to speak.
“Do… you not like it?” she whispered.
“No,” Ketal said. “That is not it.”
The thoughts in his mind, however, were not what she feared.
“No…,” he repeated softly.
He was in shock. The first emotion that rose when he heard Arkemis’s words was not surprise or joy or even embarrassment. It was fear, followed by hesitation and a deep, instinctive resistance.
I felt fear? And doubt? he wondered.
A being from the fantasy world he loved had asked for a deeper bond with him. The realization of his own reaction shook him.
Why do I feel this way? Ketal sank into thought, tracing the answer back through his own heart, and soon he understood.
He had always wanted the beings of this fantasy world to accept him. He wanted to stand beside them not as an outsider, but as one of their own. Up until now, his stance had always been a passive one. He had been waiting for the people of this world to reach out their hands to him.
However, Arkemis’s confession...
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