The Moonlit Princess

“Hey... Wake up? The shops closed. Hurry up and get going. ” Barely even awake as my eyes hung like anchors to my dreams. “Come on! Get moving before I call the night guard to throw you out into the road. ”

“Sheesh! I get it! Al-alright... I’m going. ” Stumbling to my feet as my legs had grown numb, I walled over to the exit as I fell over onto the empty road. “Agh-huh... Just my luck! ”

Resting for a while, I got onto my feet and began walking towards the edge of town. Stumbling off from the maim road, a bright glow of light caught my eye. Intrigued, I chased after it not knowing where or questioning why I was going after it.

Before long, I slid and collapsed somewhere deep on the woods as all I could see looking up was a folly of brightly lit streams of stars and a purple hazy cloud stretching across both ends of the sky. My arms grew weak as my legs fell like iron bars. Unable toove nor wanting to, I calmly looked at the night sly with a gleaming set of eyes.

“This isn’t a bad place to die... ” Closing my eyes, I exhausted a breath as my heart grew weary and my mind clear. “How beautiful is this moonlit night. ”

Without a worry nor a fleeting thought, I lay, resting ever so peacefully under the calming ambience of a soothing forest. Hearing carefully as each tree brach swaying in concert without rhythm or script, my fingers dug into the soft soil that held my weary soul.

“Hmm-mmm... ” A sudden pull shocked life back into my eyes as I opened my gaze and set my sights on an angelic face.

At a loss for words, my eyes met two blue skies under the moonlight as a woman floating as if engulfed in water right before me. My shock restricted my breath as all function below my neck was locked away by some external force. Wide eyes and fully awake, my heart pounded high as she drew her delicate hands onto my cheek.

“Ah-hmm... Mmm-hmm. ” Her soothing voice echied and resonated with the entire forest as if by some miracle, her touch very being created a soft light.

Utterly speechless, she gently closed her eyes as her long eyelashes fluttered with a distinct elegance no man nor god could replicate. My mind collapsed as my eyes filled with tears as her beauty shined and opened a door I had thought would remains a void for the rest of my life.

Carless with my hand, it found its way onto hers beside my cheek and in a fleeting moment, we drew closer as if by magnets pulling us together. Glowing in delight, I closed my eyes and remained ever lost as ever second felt like a fraction of forver.

Carless, was the sudden wight my life raced back into place as I opened in my haze to an empty existence yet again. Turning sharply as if it were not true, my head shook until ultimately collapsing back onto the Earth where I was adamant at the fact I would soon depart with a smile in tow.

Inhaling a gust of air, I relaxed while looking above. Flinching as I scratched my nose, I opened my eyes and sat up find a tilting view worth ten thousand sunrises as she appeared beside me and bushed on top of me.

Helpless to her touch and a slave to my own lust, I moved accoeto her will as my own crumbled the second she appeared. With a soft expression, her lips gleamed as her skin radiated with a brilliant glow that would put all the worlds treasures to shame.

My mind raced miles ahead of me as my heart chased right behind. With an unexpected visit of this angelic woman, came with it as hellish doubt. Threading along a thin line, my eyes rained fixed on her enchanting appearance. As if to bask in heavens light, she resembled all that I found appealing in life.

With one touch, a single stroke down my neck, I fell prey to her every whim. Resting flat onto my chest, I was frozen in place as I had become hers without contest. Moving herself with a flow so easily memorizing I forgot to breathe, a slowoving strand woke me from my trance.

As only hours passed, what I felt sped in seconds as she raised herself to the sky as the moon had begun to set whole a golden light stretched across the morning sky. Raising a hand and utterly helpless, I was broken in more pieces than one as her innocent light disappeared into the clear blue sky.

I remained as a witness to her existence and rushed back to the village where I spread my experience with the whole town and was ultimately labeled an, ′ idiot’. Though my eyes remained hung with a long night of grace, I felt an ache more so cold than the deepest cavern under a sheet of ice.

For the next several days, I waited... and waited until years passed me by and in that same place, I met my time. All while engraving a short poem onto a large old stone nearby that read:

“He who yearns for delight... Follow the least favored path and wither at her gazing light... Never lost faith... For the Moonlit Princess shines even beyond thy grave... Give chase to her heavenly shine and take root in the land she has blessed with an enchanting melody so refined, she moves the heavens to her will.”

With it his last goodbyes, an legend was born as many good people carried of his wild tale across the lands. As fate would have it, the clearing where the man encountered the heavenly, Moonlit Princess, became the lands most romantic marrige setting for twice a year, sweet and delicate cherry blossoms changed the scape to make an otherworldly wedding memory.

In spite of his tale, it was said that the the Moonlit Princess took the weary old mans soul personally and left behind the fruit of his everlasting devotion to her behind in the form of the sudden appearance of cherry blossom trees. His story went down as one of the oldest legends in the lands history through war and peace in times,any believed that the Moonlit Princess would bless their holy union and even erected a shrine made of the deepest minerals across the land in dedication to her beauty.

And now. After four centuries after the land has changed, came fourth a new era where the once fabled and holy spirit princess came in the form of an unborn child in the within the first Queens womb.

Soon after her birth, the land was bathed in none other than cherry blossoms from the extensive forest as on the day of the Queens delivery, came a historic sign as the heavens cleared with holy rays of light and animals scurried across the land to the kingdom where the first ever princess was being born.

With much respect to her and his Highness, the biblical acts alone gave a new meaning to the words, “Moonlit Princess. ”

As the story unfolds, the first daughter of the First rulers of a new found kingdom, her Royal name was spoke at least several times a day by hundreds of thousands of people. As her parents gave her the name, “Lilith Von Blossom. ”

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