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[~echo~]

Jacob landed about five miles away, his breath barely hard and he sat at the base of a tree.

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"Dahai!"

"What! It's true. We both know it, Elena, and it scares you."

"Yes, it does."

"Why?"

"Because he doesn't love me."

[~echo~]

Jacob took out his bow and arrows and stood up, fletching his arrow to the string. He stalked around.

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"Then he's just stupid, Elena. You are everything to love."

Elena shook her head, leaned against Dahai for another hug and returned it with vigor. "No, I am nothing, sister. You must return."

[~echo~]

After a while, Jacob had snared two rabbits and three squirrels, all of which he simmered in the embers of his fire and ate quickly.

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Elena tracked him, stood at the edge of the woods and watched him before raising her voice in a call.
"Jacob!"

[~echo~]

Jacob was in the middle of his last squirrel when he heard her call. He grit his teeth and didn't reply.

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She stepped up, appeared beside him a second - it only took a second - later. She sat. "Why are you mad at me? Have I done something to offend?"

[~echo~]

"I just don't know what you want from me. We met yesterday! I don't know why you want me. I can't make you happy."

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She breathed in deeply, slowly exhaled with strict control.
"I want a multitude of things. One of them eternal bliss and the bastards that hurt me and mine to go straight to hell. But, the question is - what do you want? Why did you join me?"

[~echo~]

"I don't know why I joined you. But what I want? Freedom. A castle in the clouds would be nice," he said. "Since Daragon is under ground... I don't think I could live there very long. I can't survive without flight and the thought of all those tons of rock above me.... I would be smothered and I would definitely die."

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"Oh, Jacob!" She laughed. "We have portals, places to reach the sky. Air users like the sky, love it, and act as you do - they don't live in Daragon, not the underground realm of it, anyways. There are different realms of Daragon. Daragon, the underground one, is more of a homebase."

[~echo~]

"Oh," he said with a blink. "Well, still. I like staying overground."

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"You would."
She snorted lightly, amused and baffled.
Elena leaned back against a tree, her arms crossed under her breasts.
"Am I attractive to you?"

[~echo~]

He watched her for a moment. "I guess. You're pretty," he said with a blink.

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"Thank you." She dipped her head, moved around the woods restlessly. "I need to..." Kiss you. "Move."

[~echo~]

"Okay. I think I'm going to go on another flight."

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"Will you return?"

[~echo~]

He watched her for a moment. "Perhaps," he mumbled.

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"I look forward to traveling with you." She flashed him a smile, spun on her heel, and raced towards her dragon.