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Otherworldly love,

Her hand reached down, unfurling like a palm frond, to gently brush the damp hair from the hunter's brow. He lay in the wet clay of the island shore, exhausted but invigorated by her delicate touch. She smelled of fresh tilled Earth and rain, of flower stems that were recently cut, the milk that resided there.

She smelled of green.

He closed his eyes and felt her presence envelop him, a spirit of the woods gracing him with her care. He felt as though small sprigs of baby's breath would sprout where her fingertips ran along his cheek. She knelt before him, drawing his face to hers for the first time up close.

She was the most otherworldly thing he had ever seen. Her eyes were the exact green of the forest, her lips were pale and slightly blued like the water he braved to lay before her. Her skin was as white and milky as clouds, so sheer, so thin, that she was almost translucent. And this spectacular creature, one that he almost dared to kill, was looking down at him with soft features that hinted at adoration.

She laid down in the sticky clay alongside him, her delicate fingers finding their way under his chin and turning his head, inspecting him as he marveled at her. He reached out apprehensively, hesitating until he finally found the courage to run his fingers through her hair.

It felt like soft, baby ferns. He shivered.

The hunter leaned toward her, eyes inspecting her ethereal face for any sign of alarm, lest she were to take flight once more. Instead, he was met with a reassuring smile dancing across her lips, encouraging him to draw closer. As his lips brushed against hers, the entire island seemed as though it fell away from under them and he was suspended in a comforting void between the ground and the sky.
Her arms ensnaring him like vines and pulling him deep into her tender embrace. He had never felt a lover's touch so tender and complete as they moved together on the shore.

Her body welcomed and opened to him like the soil to a sprout, shifting around his growth and forming snug around it. Their bodies fused together, moving in rhythm, every sighing breath breathing life into one another. They tangled together like branches in the clay, smeared with nature but their fervent dance undeniably pure. The hips of the woodland goddess bore down on him as he let out a shuddering gasp, feeling his seed wash into her and take root. She tumbled down against him like leaves shivering in a passionate breeze.

The hunter brought his trembling hands up and clutched her close to him, crushing her delicate, cool frame to his chest. He let out a rumbling sigh, feeling her pulsate against him as he closed his eyes and relished the moment. He trailed his fingers over the soft stones of her spine, feeling the ridges, allowing them to wander to her peaks and valleys, worshipping her landscape.

"I love you and I will protect you." came her lilting, musical voice as she closed her eyes and drifted off against him.

She was perfection in the purest sense and he had sought to slaughter her. Chasing her through the forest that birthed her from his wayward arrow only to fall onto a bank at her feet, wanting nothing more than to humble himself in her mystical presence.

A goddess.
A nymph.
A spirit.
A sprite.
An eternal witness to all that was and will be.

He was sure that at night she would puff out her cheeks and blow out the stars. She was the world, she was the woods, she was the soil, she was the sky. She was mother nature in human form, willing nature like she willed his heart. As he heard her soft breaths, feeling them dance across his skin, he knew that he would forever be her servant. Her slave.

And he would never allow anything to harm her.

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