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GROUNDED FAIRY
After Honiea’s departure, Rashel sat at her table a few minutes in a stupor, unsure if she could even reason through the quandary in which she found herself trapped. She instinctively knew that Yeolani would try to do what he thought was right, no matter how miserable it would make him. She feared that. Did she love Yeolani? If what she felt wasn’t love, she had no other name for it. Why was she falling in love with a virtual stranger? She would lay down her life for this man after only a few days in his presence. She would weep if he left her and rage for the rest of her life at the magic that would separate them. Why? What was the magic that did this?
It wasn’t all physical attraction, either, Rashel reasoned, though that helped. She loved the lean lines of him, his
