Chapter 33: Mother Earth

Seeing Boo happily swaying to sides made me feel something I never did before. It showed me and let me learn how much happiness you can gain from helping others.

I stared at her cheerful facial expression, when I noticed something located on her upper body. I saw how her firm breasts bounced to the sides with her body's movement.

Boo's breats had round shape, reazulting in my mind screaming to grab them and feel their softness in my hands. But that was't all, as her pink nipples looked so appealing that I could hardly control myself from putting them in my mouth and sucking on them.

(Stop, Alexander! Don't be a creep.) New images of what I wanted to do keep appearing in my head, giving me a hard time controlling my lust.

With limited amout of my wilpower still present, I felt how my arm slowly started heading towards Boo's chest. But before it reached its goal, I used remaning amounts of my will to gather strenght in my arm and slap myself across the face.

"That really hurt." I rubbed the right side of my face to nullify at least some of the burning sensation my palm brought to my skin. This pain wasn't anything nice, but it worked as a bucket of cold water which washed away all of my desires.

"Alexander, why did you hurt yourself?" As it turned out, my move didn't go unnoticed by Boo, who took a step in my direction when she heard the loud slap of justice.

With this move she close already limited distance between us even more. And I soon came face to face with her golden eyes that showed worry mixed with concern. Boo simply had no idea of the lust I accumulated after looking at her naked self.

(I can't.) For a moment my desires took a hold of me and because of that I almost took advantage of Boo vulnerable self.

"Nothing, Boo. I had a mosquito on my face." I showed her a reassuring smile.

"Oh, ok." Boo just accepted my words for granted. She didn't even think I could lie to her.

(Why is this making me feel worse?) I looked down, when I felt a soft hand being placed on my cheek. It brought not only comfort, but also made the burning sensation go away.

"All done." Boo's tone again overflow with joy.

I looked back up and saw her swaying to the sides with Mr.Fluffy in her arms. (It's hard to imagine what trauma she gone through just minutes ago.)

"Hey, Boo. Is everything alright?"

"Of course. Why do you ask?"

"Well, after you killed the Goliath, you..." I wanted to finish my sentence, but Boo interrupted me in the middle of it.

"What are you talking about? I didn't kill him, it was you. You saved me from him, when he wanted to hurt me." While saying it Boo stopped swaying and focused her gaze on my face. It was also the first time I noticed Boo's carefree attidue disappear.

"How could I forgot? It must be because of me passing out, my mind isn't where it should be yet." I laughed it off, like it was nothing.

(So this is how it is. She didn't deal with the trauma, her mind covered it with the image of me being the one that slayed the Goliath.)

"It must be that. Don't worry, you will get better soon." Boo's happy mode returned to her, confirming my theory of her brain creating a defense mechanism by altering her memory.

"And do you know why you're in this from?" I spoke slowly, while thinking to myself. (I need to be carefull not to reawaken her trauma. There will come a time when it needs to be dealt with, but it's not now.)

"What form?" Boo seemed genuinely surprised by my question and as a reply, I pointed down at her body.

She followed my finger direction. "Hmm, is there something unusual about my body? I did noticed that my connection to nature improved, but I don't think anything on the outside changed."

"You don't see your body is now made of flesh and not rocks, like it did before?" I wasn't sure if Boo was joking, or not.

"It seems that's the case." She had no reaction to those news, it almost looked like what happened to her was a natural state of things.

(Actually. Maybe it is?) I considered what I read about rock golems and thought about a possibility of them having a different view of some matters. It would explain why Boo's change brought no reaction to her, if that was the case.

I decided to test it. "Tell me, Boo. Would you like to have the same surname as me?"

After hearing my question, Boo tilted her head to the side and answered with her own. "Do you want me to be your wife?"

"What?..Noooo." It was quite obvious what my intentions could be, but I was sure Boo wouldn't be able to pick on that on her own. "How did you even come up with this idea? I don't think you know what wife means."

(I don't think rock golems share the same concept of marriage, as human does.)

"My mother told me you wanted to make me your wife. She said that sharing the same surname is a part of it."

"You mean Gaia?"

"Yes. Mother said to be careful around men like you." I felt like an arrow was shot through my heart when I heard Boo said that. I even placed my hand on the left side of my chest, looking hurt.

"She said that? She didn't mean it, I'm sure of it." I tried to show Boo a hopefull smile.

"No, I'm sure she did." Boo smiled at me back and I was certain she had no idea why I was prescribed as dangerous by Gaia.

"By the way, how did she tell you that? I didn't see anything that could implicate a form of communication between you and her." I became curious of how Gaia spoke to Boo without me noticing.

"You can't hear her? She is in the nature around us and she's speaking the whole time." Boo explained it to me with great shock on her face. Me not hearing Gaia was unimaginable to her.

"No, I can't..." In that moment I heard a voice close to my ear. "It's not surprising you can't hear me, as you have no roots of nature magic in you."

"Was that you, Gaia?"

"What do you think, Alexander Lambert?"

"I see, Mother Earth herself. I didn't think I will ever have pleasure of meeting you in person."

"And you still don't have this pleasure." Gaia laughed softly for a bit and continued speaking. "I'm not in person, I'm just manifesting myself using the forst around you."

"Still enough to amaze me. And can I ask what's the reason you decided to spoke to me? I don't think you would need to do that if you only wanted to warn Boo about me." I knew full well that speaking to a figure like Gaia doesn't come easy.

"Straight to the point? I like it. Maybe you aren't as bad as I thought you were after staring at by daughter's bare chest." Hearing the last part made me cough a little.

"You don't need to mention that."

"You think so? But it has a lot to do with what I want to talk to you about." Gaia made her voice sound pleasant, but I could feel an underlying tone of something serious she's about to brought up.

"You see my daughter Boo is now a pure rock golem, a member of her race that was able to overcome her rock form bidnings and achive her real form. She's very important to me, as the number of pure rock golems in existance can be counted on fingers." Passion in Gaia's voice was evident in every word.

"Boo before awaeking her consciousness was a big black diamond, and if you don't know how rock golems are formed, then I will tell you that the rarer crystal, rock, or material they form from. The harder it's from them to be born."

"So what do you expect from me?" I decided to find out about the reason why Gaia appeared, but she dismissed my question and continued talking about Boo.

"Because of how rare Boo was, I knew from the start that she wil be special....And as much as it hurts me, her uniques came with a price. She was alone for years, with no one to care for her." Gaia sounded like a real mother when talking about her daughter's miserable past.

Those were the last words she spoke for a brief period of time. I on the other hand waited patiently for her to finally tell what exactly she wants from me.

"Alexander Lambert, you are a big part of why Boo was able to achive her current form and I want to ask you to do one thing. Will you accept?" It was clear that Gaia hopped for me to agree right away, but I don't like not knowing what I'm asked for.

"Which is?"

"I want you to take Boo as your wife." Gaia's request shocked me to the core, making me unable to utter even a single word.