By;
Jessica Anne Singleton
( A fictional Story )
" I went to the Garden of Love. And I saw what I never had seen. A chapel was built in the midst where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this chapel were shut. So I turned to the Garden of Love that so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves where flowers should be. And Priest in black gowns were walking their rounds. " - William Blake
Pitch Love
Love is the color of night in a cold transparent room. Only because when it leaves, do you realize that you need a coat. The transparency turns to light and you turn to dust from looking into the sun. So empty and broken. Nothing can repair the flower in your garden.
Winter does not need an invitation to crowd a room.
Once upon a time there lived a great king in a far away land. He was a fairy king named Time. Time had a beautiful daughter named Jessica. Jessica was not the typical fairy princess. She was more like Joan D' Arc then a winged princess. Jessica went with the knights on most of their journeys into the forest.
One day the king received a letter from his knights that war was in the land. It was not coming from the four corners. This war was different. No one could tell where this invisible threat came from. But it was killing everything in it's path. The kingdom was living in fear of their lives.
King Time sent his men and his daughter to ask for the help of a man that lived in the woods. The man's name was Emerald Chant. He was half witch and half fairy. He was tall and had the features of a vampire to most who looked upon his face. He did not leave his castle very often. He kept a cat as a companion. The cat was rumored to be the reincarnated soul of an ax murder. The cats name was Dante.
Jessica's unicorn was a black beauty that she named Magic. When they arrived at the castle they were met by a garden keeper named Toes. Toes was a small elf and he was the maid to Emerald.
The garden was a forest all of it's own with statues of angels and fountains of silver frost. The flowers were wild dark purples and reds. The garden must have housed a thousand red robins and black ravens.
Toes took all of the kings men and the princess in to see Emerald.
When Emerald saw Jessica, he looked like he was awake for the first time. The look of recognition was undeniable in them both. Their conversation was serious and they did not smile. But they kept looking at each other in that way.
Jessica fell in love with Emerald. They became close after months of being together working on the same thing. His eyes were like sea shells that opened to black pearls. Jessica's eyes were a sea of dark blues and onyx storms.
Years later the war had not ended but it had slowed to a stand still. Jessica became friends with a man that lived in another kingdom. His name was Sonte. Sonte fell in love with Jessica. He knew that he could not have her. He knew that Jessica's heart would not leave the one she was with. When fairies fall in love, nothing can end that love until their hearts are broken.
So Sonte started to cause problems for Jessica. The knight of the Halloween Ball, Sonte paid a red haired elf to kiss Emerald. Jessica was afraid that the man that she loved was in love with someone else.
She did not say anything. She did not want to take his happiness away. She did not want him to stay with her because it would break her heart if he left. So she stayed silent. Emerald noticed the change in Jessica's behavior. So one night when he was walking by her, she started to move away from him.
Emerald swung around like a dancer and he wrapped his arm around his wife. He leaned down into her ear.
" I truly do love you. Only you. When you are sad, it breaks my heart. I do not know what has made that look appear in your eyes but I do not like it. Tell me what it is and I will make it right. I love you. Please let me help you. Whatever it is? Whatever it could be? You must tell me now. There is death all over this land. I live in a graveyard. But losing you would be the death of me. "
" Do You really mean what you say ? "
" I did then and I do now. "
Jessica buried her head into Emerald's chest and she started to cry.
" I saw you kiss that red haired girl the other day. I saw it. Sonte said that you were her lover. She lives in his kingdom. "
Emerald looked confused. He had to think for a moment. Then he said,
" No I did not know her. She came as his date for the evening. I was just standing there and she jumped at me. I did not have time to push her away before she kissed me. I am sorry but he lied. "
That is when he said something about Sonte that made Jessica remember a letter of war that had been sent to her father.
The links lined up like puzzle pieces.
Sonte was the reason for war.
Jessica and Emerald could finally put an end to this war.
And they did.
The world was safe again.
There was not more untimely deaths.
The End
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