Chapter 8: Aolis

It’s been three days. Three days since I gave Lily my ultimatum. Maybe I shouldn’t have been so rash. It’s not like me. But the pain of knowing she was with someone else had been too much. She was always meant to be mine. Even her Moon Goddess made her mine. Women throw themselves at me all the time. But the only woman I want, doesn’t seem to want me.

I’m walking through the forest around Araphyra, lost in my thoughts, listening to the magical sounds around me. Well, I don’t consider them magical, but almost everyone else does. Fairy wings gently whistling in the breeze, dryads chittering to the trees, gnomes and dwarves beneath my feet, digging around in their homes, searching for treasures in the deepest parts of the earth, and in the distance, there is the sound of leprechauns playing their harps and pipes.

The sounds of the forest soothe me, calming my frustrated soul, helping to easing my aching heart. I didn’t have a destination in mind, but as I walk, I find myself on a well-w