[Novel] Childhood Comfort
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nathanialroyaleTitle: Childhood Comfort
Rating: (PG)
Content Notes/Warnings: Kallion is a half Arch angel the son of Elhannan, who was Guardian to the protagonist (Nathanial) of my novels. Elhannan died and Kallion was captured and enslaved, but he was later saved and adopted by Nathanial, who has also died leaving Kallion parentless. Mallie is the daughter of Nathanial's adopted sister Queen Nilec. Both though only 9 and 7 respectively have already seen too much...
No Warnings.
Main Character/s: Mallie Quele, Kallion ap'Eiblhion
Plot: Both have nightmares, and at night they comfort each other.
Location: Illander castle, illander city.
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"Kallion?"
The boy woke with a start; shivers passing down his spine as he heard a voice from the darkness of his room. Eyes opened tentatively and he looked up into the shadows of his room, sweat collecting on his brow. From within shadows the vibrant greens were haunted and tears were falling.
"Mallie?" he whispered in concern; his throat dry from the hours of sleep.
The half Arch Angel would sit up slowly from beneath the blankets always so leery; he did not want her to see his scars. But Nathanial had said before he died to that they would heal in time, though the soul scars…those would only heal if he would let them be as he still picked at them like an open wound. Kallion couldn’t understand what he had meant, he always dreamed of the past, of the bad place.
"Tonight you had the nightmare first?"
Mallie gave a little sad laugh," Sorry Kally."
"No, no! It’s alright. I'll protect you tonight instead, boys are supposed to protect girls. So while you're sad tonight I'll look after you and tomorrow night you will look after me."
Mallie smiled a little and pulled back giving a nod her black curls falling into her face, “And if we both can't sleep then cousin Joscelin will hold us."
"Brother is strong for the both of us," Kallion smiled a brilliant smile to her though he was sad himself, no nightmare tonight but a dream of sadness instead. His dreams rarely had the joy and frivolity of child dreams. But he would do as he said he would, he would hold her and comfort her. She had never asked him about the years of abuse when he was captured and enslaved after Elhannan’s death or about the scars. Mallie never pressured him or made him feel stupid for not knowing how to read and write like she was learning. She simply let him be him even when he was sad or bitter about the earlier days, and he simply let her cry if she needed to cry. Kallion didn’t know why she was always afraid, what her nightmares were about but then it wasn’t right to ask her if she didn’t ask him!
So he stayed silent.
"Kallion," Mallie spoke up as his white wings wrapped around her and the 9 year old cocked his head to her.
"Mallie?"
"Is it too early to say I think I love you?"
Kallion's eyes widened at the Elven girl in his arms and he smiled another brilliant smile, but this one was real not just a rouse to make her happy.
"No…'Cause I love you too."
Mallie hugged him with nightgown covered arms.
"Never leave," Mallie whispered with desperation and Kallion nodded adamantly.
"Never!"
---
But it wasn't him…who would leave.
Running from an unknown monster Mallie would leave her world…
It wouldn’t be for years, Mallie thirteen when she fled with a world hopping carnival, but it would change them.
The bitterness over childhoods so bleak would mar them, and when they would meet again 5 years later… Mallie’s golden skin would be snow white, and Kallion would not understand why. They would be filled with spite and the words thrown would not be meant, but said none-the-less.
There love would not die, but they would be rifted and torn and it would take years to say those words again...
Every little word
With every lesson learned
I think I know why hearts are made of stone
Every little pain
Fans a bitter flame
Nothing stops me loving you
Like the Rose - Bewitched
Rating: (PG)
Content Notes/Warnings: Kallion is a half Arch angel the son of Elhannan, who was Guardian to the protagonist (Nathanial) of my novels. Elhannan died and Kallion was captured and enslaved, but he was later saved and adopted by Nathanial, who has also died leaving Kallion parentless. Mallie is the daughter of Nathanial's adopted sister Queen Nilec. Both though only 9 and 7 respectively have already seen too much...
No Warnings.
Main Character/s: Mallie Quele, Kallion ap'Eiblhion
Plot: Both have nightmares, and at night they comfort each other.
Location: Illander castle, illander city.
---
"Kallion?"
The boy woke with a start; shivers passing down his spine as he heard a voice from the darkness of his room. Eyes opened tentatively and he looked up into the shadows of his room, sweat collecting on his brow. From within shadows the vibrant greens were haunted and tears were falling.
"Mallie?" he whispered in concern; his throat dry from the hours of sleep.
The half Arch Angel would sit up slowly from beneath the blankets always so leery; he did not want her to see his scars. But Nathanial had said before he died to that they would heal in time, though the soul scars…those would only heal if he would let them be as he still picked at them like an open wound. Kallion couldn’t understand what he had meant, he always dreamed of the past, of the bad place.
"Tonight you had the nightmare first?"
Mallie gave a little sad laugh," Sorry Kally."
"No, no! It’s alright. I'll protect you tonight instead, boys are supposed to protect girls. So while you're sad tonight I'll look after you and tomorrow night you will look after me."
Mallie smiled a little and pulled back giving a nod her black curls falling into her face, “And if we both can't sleep then cousin Joscelin will hold us."
"Brother is strong for the both of us," Kallion smiled a brilliant smile to her though he was sad himself, no nightmare tonight but a dream of sadness instead. His dreams rarely had the joy and frivolity of child dreams. But he would do as he said he would, he would hold her and comfort her. She had never asked him about the years of abuse when he was captured and enslaved after Elhannan’s death or about the scars. Mallie never pressured him or made him feel stupid for not knowing how to read and write like she was learning. She simply let him be him even when he was sad or bitter about the earlier days, and he simply let her cry if she needed to cry. Kallion didn’t know why she was always afraid, what her nightmares were about but then it wasn’t right to ask her if she didn’t ask him!
So he stayed silent.
"Kallion," Mallie spoke up as his white wings wrapped around her and the 9 year old cocked his head to her.
"Mallie?"
"Is it too early to say I think I love you?"
Kallion's eyes widened at the Elven girl in his arms and he smiled another brilliant smile, but this one was real not just a rouse to make her happy.
"No…'Cause I love you too."
Mallie hugged him with nightgown covered arms.
"Never leave," Mallie whispered with desperation and Kallion nodded adamantly.
"Never!"
---
But it wasn't him…who would leave.
Running from an unknown monster Mallie would leave her world…
It wouldn’t be for years, Mallie thirteen when she fled with a world hopping carnival, but it would change them.
The bitterness over childhoods so bleak would mar them, and when they would meet again 5 years later… Mallie’s golden skin would be snow white, and Kallion would not understand why. They would be filled with spite and the words thrown would not be meant, but said none-the-less.
There love would not die, but they would be rifted and torn and it would take years to say those words again...
Every little word
With every lesson learned
I think I know why hearts are made of stone
Every little pain
Fans a bitter flame
Nothing stops me loving you
Like the Rose - Bewitched
