An Impossible Love
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Leather-bound, cracking along the spine. Yellowed pages, stained with time and use. A script that looks too neat, almost as if the quill that scrawled the words were floating with some magic. None are in a readable script, however, the words appearing to be perhaps some kind of cipher used by the writer. All except for one.
It's....funny, almost. I never thought I would find love in this world, yet here it stands in front of me. I no longer think that I love him, I know that I love him.
But what do I do with this? Can I even love someone who is not of my own kind? Could he, would he, love me back?
The conflict will not resolve itself in my mind. As far as I know I cannot be more like him, and I do not wish for him to be more like me. What I do want is to be there for him more than I am now, more than I can be in my present form. I want to help ease this pain he feels. Perhaps a bit selfishly, I also wish to be seen as more than a traveling companion in his eyes. I want to love him in a way I cannot do now.
What curse has befallen me? Have my gods forsaken me? Why, of all things, was it the one person I feel that I cannot have that I've fallen in love with....
Tiny tear stains dot the page after those last words trail off. Several times it appears as if the writer wished to start again but the ink runs with the stains and does not form anything coherent beyond that point. In the corner of the page, smudged with the years, is a small cat paw and a detailed drawing of a wooden mask with a little heart between them.
(Intentionally presented with no context other than given. The feelings of a D&D character I play towards another character.)
This touches my heart to the core. Awesome writing :)
Thank you. I didn't expect something so silly written on a whim to touch so many people but I'm really glad ^^
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Really heartfelt writing about unrequited love. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you ^^
Amazingly well done
Thank you so much! :D
Lovely written!
Thank you! :D
Most welcome!
What you can't have completely the way you want is what you want hopelessly...
I felt that 😊
I feel it too, even if this is just the musings of a character I play once a week for a few hours.
Wonderful keep steem my dear👍🏻♥️
Thank you, I will :D
Wow, wonderful writing @sigilmancy.
It made me emotional a bit.
Upvoted
Thank you. I did my job then :)
Interesting. I wonder if this is how my kitty feels too. #steemitbloggers
Maybe. But as this comes from D&D she is basically the intelligence of a person in cat form so XD
I miss D & D. It's been a long time since I've had a group of people who liked to play AND had time to play.
I DM 3 games a week and play in 4 more, all online. Kinda odd with strangers but they become friends over time ^^
Oh man! You are truly dedicated to your craft. How do you find time for all that? There's so much planning involved.
Very, very carefully XD The online site allows for me to get paid for being a DM, so I'm trying to put in the unwritten requisite hours to get to that level. Plus it's just really fun, I enjoy it every time ^^
That's AWESOME that you can get paid to DM. I never would have guessed that would even be a thing. Very cool. :-)
Me neither. But so many people want to play and DM's are in such short supply. Plus for all the work put into a campaign, it's just one of those things that would inevitably happen I suppose XD
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