Lain and Rei

In the morning, Emrys awoke from a happily rested sleep. He pulled a house coat on and left his large room, walking through the palace down to the breakfast room. There was already his favorite tea waiting for him and a small bowl of local fruits.

Amyr walked in and sat down across from him and leaned back in his chair, crossing his legs over each other.

"Sleep well, cousin?" he asked, grabbing a small fruit from the bowl and popping it into his mouth. Emrys looked over at him from over the rim of his tea cup.

"Fine thank you." He finally said after he took his drink. Amyr chuckled.

"And your little lamb? Did you find her in her dreams last night?" Emrys sighed at the question and drank from his tea.

"I'm going to find her one way or another."

As the night went on, one dream would stay with her, almost lucid in it's substance, yet she could do nothing to sway it's outcome. She would arrive at her shop for work, the cloaked figure standing at the door, as if waiting for her. He held out her hand and whispered.

"Come with me." She would put her hand in his and in a poof of that black mist, they'd be gone. He'd appear them before a thick forest edge, lined in bramble bushes and Hawthorne. He let go of her hand and with his back to the bramble, he stepped backwards into it. A very small clearing of bramble and Hawthorne pushing to the sides, creating a small path. She would hesitate before stepping forth, like she was being pulled forward rather than moving her feet willingly. Her body pierced the veil and she'd feel an odd sensation pass through her body. Every ounce of her would tingle and at the same time, feel like small shocks of electricity surged through her skin.

On the other side of the bramble, she would be greeted with endless night sky. Millions upon millions of stars, almost flooding the sky unlike her normal night sky. The moon shown at it's brightest, the glory of the night. And the night sky illuminated an endless soft green landscape stretching on infinity, just as the night sky did before her.

Some distance ahead of her, the dark figure stood, cloaked in the darkness. She'd start walking in his direction and as she got closer, she'd see his hands tucked in front of him. Pink petals and their flowers glowing in his palms.

"These are special petals, meant to allure one to another." He dropped them and let them float to the ground. "But I think you're the bond." He whispered. He shed his cloak, revealing his half unclothed body, his shoulder length wavy hair falling around his muscled shoulders. He was very well built, and tan. His violet eyes glowed even brighter to her. "I will find you again." he told her, walking up to her and pressing a gentle kiss to her forehead before she was released from the dream spell and given the chance to awaken.

Emrys returned to the palace, the heavy white stones of the building glistening in the dark from the raindrops that soaked it's exterior. He loved how this place shimmered in the rain and how the light would glow when there was a full moon.

He retired to his room for the evening, removing the heavy cloak from his shoulders and hanging it back up, now completely dried. He stripped off his black/blue tunic and black leather trousers, then pulled on an extravagant pair of silken night wear.

Laying in bed, his bare skin felt wonderful on the similarly silken bedding and he tucked his arm under his head, looking up into the black canopy above him. With a flick of his forefinger and thumb, he flicked a crimson droplet from his hand onto the canopy and in a moment's notice, he was able to get a blurred vision of the young woman. When he realized, however, she was undressed and in the bath, he quickly swallowed and removed the vision from the canopy.

"She's probably not the one anyway..." he lied to himself, feeling that rush of energy rage through him when he ended the vision. "Don't kid yourself Emrys, no mere mortal could ever love you..." he grumbled to himself and rolled over on his bedding, closing his eyes.

He'd stay for a few moments more, and then he'd disappear once more and go back to the veil and cross back over it. The night here was immensely more beautiful and as he crossed over, he stopped and took a deep breath.

"Enjoy yourself?" that voice spoke from his left ear.

"It was unexpected okay? I didn't intend to speak to anyone, but she saw me and I couldn't just ignore her." he sighed, pulling his hood from his head. His rich black hair, silky, and wavy adjusting to his shoulders where it rests. Pulled in a half ponytail with two small locks falling over his forehead. His gaze turning to his cousin at his left who was standing there, waiting. The man dressed in a dark tunic and leather trousers. The sleeves billowing from his arms and securing to his wrists loosely.

"Emrys, you're the Highlord of the Night Court. You can't just disappear into the human world like you keep doing." he began, pleading with his cousin.

"Amyr, I know what I'm doing. The Queens told me I would find my bond with a woman from beyond the veil. How am I supposed to find her there, if I'm always stuck here?" Emrys grumbled and started walking toward the palace grounds.

As she picked up the coin, she would get the notion to take the flowers he was buying home with her. And instruction to place them under her pillow when she slept was given to her.

When she picked up the coin, he sent her this message from his shroud of darkness outside of her store.

'Let me guess, she's going to have a rather suggestive dream tonight...isn't she?' the voice crooned.