398. Fleur, 7

(Wardah)

I've explored the empty surroundings for long enough.

The legendary northern winter is getting closer each day. It's a threat to me and my instinct is telling me I should begin heading south if I want to survive. I don't think I could survive snow.

Blume's heart stopped beating recently.

Along with the weather, it has begun cooling down.

I wish I could have seen you again, but I guess now it will never happen. I have to go before the cold really gets me.

Nothing changed around your resting place. Except that it's really getting cold and I can't bear it anymore.

It's decided.

Tomorrow I will leave on my own.

I will leave your grave behind.

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You granted me my dearest wish.

You brought me to a different world. You at least gave me that chance.

And I've had time to begin to understand what you thought about my body.

I wish we had spent more time together, but it's already been good.

The heart you left me began to decay as soon as I got my resolve clear. All it left behind was a small seed of a sort.

It's not a coincidence, is it?

I don't need your heart anymore, so it stopped beating and living.

I can almost hear you laugh at that falsely romantic gesture. It was your last teasing joke against me truly. Isn't it, Blume?

I'm sure it was.

It was your spur of the moment idea to say goodbye to me, in a manner that is like you.

I buried the rotting heart with the rest of you at dawn, and left.

It was nice meeting you, flower demon.

I hope you will still grow back someday. I hope you will sprout back.

Maybe I'll come back around here next Spring.

My hideous body began limping away rapidly.

I could have become so much more, had you granted my wish, the other one.

Maybe I'll find another way someday.

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I eat roots, herbs and leaves.

Everything I can digest. Far more than the others could back home.

I will miss Blume's maniacal laugh. And her proud and confident smiles.

She was a weird one. But she was captivating. I will miss her.

But unlike her, I won't risk my life further to see her again.

She risked everything, I got that part. I'm not doing that.

I've got the most of what I wanted anyway.

~

It still bugs me nonetheless how things ended.

The explosion of lights and shadows.

The glimpse I've had there, of a very ominous and different world from what I could imagine. A frightening land or future.

Like a firework, it was a very quick and impressive event. But it didn't last. It doesn't happen every day Alhamdulillah.

Technically, that also was that kind of thing that brought us around there in a flying hurry, giving me that chance to travel farther and faster than I could ever dream of.

So I'm also thankful to these angel and demon I saw.

Their struggle ending in a weird draw was indirectly the opportunity that allowed me to change many important things.

And I'll keep my distances from other beings-like-her, I understand that lesson.

I'm on my own way now.

I probably wasn't the only one.

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Goodbye Blume.

Thank you.

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