a kiss to break the ice

[soulbrand]

Off topic:

This post was originally located here: http://www.valucre.com/showthread.ph...l-tellus-mater. but the merger caused some posts to be cut off, and so I decided upon receiving the original post again, I would post it here again.

____________prelude: a seed once planted___

Leaves whirled, the medley of oranges and yellows danced upon the forest floor. Elegant were their twists and turns as they shifted about paths often less traveled. This was the eternal fate of beauty. Evermore kept to the unbeaten path, forevermore removed from the gaze of those who would admire it most. A cackle erupted with an echoing resonance upon the woodlands, the trees bent in the breeze and those willowy apparatuses would snap upon the leave-coated ground.

Oh, fairest maiden —
Where have you gone now?

A question well asked, as the path was now removed of the bodily beauty, her ethereal presence would remain stepping upon the trail. Ahead of her a child, small and young, his head was topped with a crown of gold, and his lips laced with a soft smile. The female, composed of a nothing more than a would be force found within the woodlands slipped her slender arms over his shoulder. Leaning back, the child would stand.

The Child of Mana, oh, my you have grown.
— My fairest.

[soulbrand]

____________prelude: a kiss for tomorrow___

The breeze has not yet left, perhaps it was the voice of her, Tellus Mater, as she spoke so softly into the ear of her child. The crown of gold caught and twirled by those ethereal fingers, she loved her children very much—this was made so by the timbre of her voice—she spoke still. A coat of leaves dropped downward from the tops above as the shower of orange brushed his sun kissed cheeks.

I have missed you, milady.
You have been missed so.

The visage that appeared before those hues would spin around, the still eye closed man, as she smiles so softly. Leaves shifted upward, her hand came to grasp the side of his face. A warmth was felt upon those cheeks as instinctively his head would lean to that side. Eyes remained closed as he dared not ruin the moment, the lips of Tellus Mater perked as she pressed them softly against those of her child.

Gone, she would vanish in a shower of oranges.
It was at this time would those eyes open.

It was a pleasure my dearest, we will do it again.
—see you soon young epirsada.

[soulbrand]

____________intermission: the tree___

A kiss would rock those lips—
—such a rock to damage a visage.

It was from his lips did he feel a burn, warm like the gaze of Helios as it pressed past the overhanging branches; such warmth was longed for as a soft breeze swept sun kissed expressions once more. To long for those lips once more, it was what would drive epirsada inwards, towards the heart of a way worn forest. A pulse shifted about those oaken apparatuses as they bent in the breeze of each step. Orange was the only thing he saw, a leaf swirled majestically slamming hard upon the white laced chest of the man, caught betwixt willowy fingers it would be held.

Only a moment more, my son.
A moment more, too long.

Within a meadow lay a pool of water, reflective of the sun’s expression as they hue blinked behind a passing cloud. Upward the head of epirsada would gaze, a few light blinks would foreshadow a sneeze. The echoing sound broke the silence, startling a nest of birds that broke out with their daily sonnet. A smile crept across those lips as before his down casting gaze another tree stood, green evermore as it stuck out amongst the reds and oranges. A shaky hand extended forward as he would touch the emerald hued bark, soft as it broke off within his hand. As the bark descended it would break, a break that his body seemed to mimic as the tip of his finger broke down.

Agape his mouth was now, as he wanted to scream, yet, there was no voice behind the man anymore. Mute was epirsada, as the breaking would not stop with that of his finger, nay; his arm followed suit and soon his chest was joining in the breakdown.

What curse had such a tree left on him?
Black. It was all he could see.