Dreamed Into Life

[Illianna]

I take her hand and place it on my belly. "We are safe. While you wage war well hold the fort. Safe behind tall walls waiting on your return." I say softly.

[Ravna]

"If only you would stay there, where I can protect you," she grumbles, but it does seem to be helping a little. 

[Illianna]

I smile sitting on a couch by the fire. "Come sit we have much to talk about. Like what you meant by saying I'd unmake you?"

[Ravna]

"It-- it's just a fear, I have," she says, suddenly nervous, looking away as she sits. 

[Illianna]

"You called me your other half. Said you'd given up on finding them...." I say gently taking her hand

[Ravna]

"It's just an old legend. Not something you need to worry about."

[Illianna]

"If it's worried you this much then I need to know, I can't protect our child if you don't tell me things"

[Ravna]

Ravna sighs, sitting back and staring up at the ceiling. "Fine. If I must."

As she speaks next, her voice takes on a rhythmic cadance: "long ago, long ago, when the world was young, man was complete, and needed for nothing. Everything he could want, he already had. Ah, but when it came time to make more of himself, as the animals did, he saw no need. Why bother? The Creator had given him all he needed in his own self, his mind and his heart and his soul. Why should he rut like the lesser beast, when the joy of creating stories and telling them to himself was all he needed? And so, in fury, the Creator reached out and tore each Man in two, each and every one. And from that day on, each man was unhappy, and required a companion to ease his burdens and make him whole. When the two halves find each other, it completes them, creating one single man -- or woman -- with all the best qualities, complete into herself."

[Illianna]

I nod turning it over in my head. "That's why we can feel each other then....because we are two halves of a whole. It makes a sort of sense..... we have a story along those lines too. Only it was kain who was split and when two of his children find each other and bond they double their wickedness and power. That's why your people are so strong because you all bear the mark of kain and then make more devils..... it's not true I'm sure but if we are a bounded pair then my strangth is yours to call on and their is nothing for you to fear." I smile gently "besides, you're the bravest warrior to swing a sword! We will be fine!"

[Ravna]

"I am not certain I follow," says Ravna slowly, "but it does not sound dissimilar to the story I know. In the story, however, they say that there's a mark, that each half will have the same mark to show they belong together. I went my entire youth without finding such a person, and I despaired of ever finding my missing half. So I became Queen."

[Illianna]

"Do you mean to tell me that you bare the same mark?"

[Ravna]

Ravna hesitates, then nods, lifting her gown to show her hip to Illiana: a pale birthmark on her dark skin, exactly the inverse of Illiana's mark, the same shape. 

[Illianna]

I gently trace her mark in wonder. "I will not unmake you....." it's barly a whisper "I will only make you stronger...... my love"

[Ravna]

"You want me to be something I am not. To do things I cannot do." It's almost a whine. 

[Illianna]

I chuckle deeply pushing her knees apart and I slide between them "I only wish to surge you mistress" I say playfully kissing her knee