Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 47
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Through that black window, through the shadows and underneath the blankets lay Banno, fast asleep. He could hear the fire outside, but the sound in his dream did not belong to a fire. It belonged to a river. It wasn't a raging, dirty brown serpent like the one that had swept him here. It was clear and peaceful, bubbling merrily across the pebbles. The roar was coming from a waterfall far upstream, and the smell of smoke from their camp fire, crackling the leaves, making them curl up around the edges before moving on to the tougher kindling.
And sitting on a log, warming her hands, was the most beautiful
Fox? Wolf? Which one?
girl in the world, Val
Vallah... Valery... One or both? Was there a difference? They were both Val...
She smiled at him, invited him to come sit with her and share the warmth.
She was...
Banno could see her rapidly switch between her forms. First she was Vallah, wearing her cute buckskin garb, slightly too small for her age so that it flashed a sliver of her midriff whenever she moved... then she was Valery, wearing that pretty dress with the low neck that so elegantly showed off her beautiful collarbones. The switches came so fast he was barely able to keep up with his eyes, turning her into a flickering blur of tree bark brown and sunset gold. Most of the time she was one existence, but sometimes she would split into two and they would exist together, side by side, Wolf and Fox, completely different from each other, but also identical in their smiles.
And in their love for him...
Banno sat down next to her/them, connected by everything, the distance between them only an illusion, for they were always occupying the same space. Always.
"Are you cold?" he asked, looking down at her upturned faces, at those sparkling blue/brown eyes.
"Please hold me," she/they begged of him, reaching out with dainty black/brown hands. How could he refuse such an honest request?
He wrapped his arms around her and they hugged him back, their embrace more than just an embrace, but a becoming.
"Are you one?" he asked, sensing the truth approaching. "Or are you two?"
"We are..." they said, her breath whispering against his chest, "whatever you want me to be..."
"Because what I want... whatever I want... is real."
"You made me real."
Banno kissed the top of her head, ran his fingers through her hair, smelled deeply of her aroma. He could taste it. He could feel it... She wanted him to do it...
"Do it," she/they whispered, as if able to read his mind. "Please do it..."
Banno gently pulled her head back to expose her neck, but when he did, he saw a puzzling sight.
She had stopped flickering between existences. This was not Vallah/Valery anymore. This was Vallah, and only Vallah. Purely Vallah.
"Where did Valery go?" he asked, already knowing the answer, but needing to ask it anyway.
"She is still outside," Vallah said. "All alone. Cold and frightened. She's not real yet. Not like you and me..." she sniffled, her eyes brimming with tears.
"No, Vallah, please don't cry."
She shook in his arms. Such a tiny little thing. Such a fragile little thing. "Please, Banno. You have to make her real. It's so cold out there..."
"Shh... shh... it's okay..." Banno whispered, lowering his face to her neck. "I'll make her real, I'll make her a part of me, just like you..."
"Thank you, Banno. Thank you so -"
She couldn't speak anymore. Banno had sunk his fangs into her neck and the pleasure was far too intense for her to handle. She bucked in his arms, gasping for breath, her small claws digging into his back as her windpipe caved in under the pressure. Blood poured from her neck, her nostrils, her mouth... her smiling mouth...
I'll make her real... Banno thought, feeling her life seep into his, merging, coalescing. I'll make her one with you, Vallah. You are one. She is you and you are her.
I promise...
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