It's been, quite a long time, hasn't it mistress? though, a soft chuckle maybe not so long for you. What is a year or two in a life time that spans thousands? I couldn't hazard a guess, and yet, this one, this one seemed important.

Ever sense the creation of our Crystal grove within my plane, the trust you placed within me and the admiration I felt toward you, ever sense that moment of ecstasy, I knew.

The feelings had been bubbling within me for many months now, through our many adventures, through our hardships. I knew I loved you as a pet, and I knew you loved me as one, but something more, had been scratching and pressing against the crystal of that hardened heart of yours. I could feel it, because I already felt it in my own. I knew the love we shard, but I didn't want to force you to admit it. I knew of the pain you've suffered, eons of suffering and torture closing up your heart and your feelings. I knew I couldn't break that down in a single night of passion, or even two, or three, or the countless we have shard.

I knew over the last few weeks, maybe even months, we've been training, you've, been training me. I knew I loved you, and I expressed it as best I could. I worked hard, trained harder. I learned my weakness's and worked to break past them. I did it for you, I did it because of you. I did it because I wanted to stand at your side, to be with you even in moments where you are at your darkest. I trained to be strong enough for you, to be strong enough to stand beside you even against the enemies I knew you still have hidden among the stars.

And I did it, because I knew you wanted it too. With every blow I felt you wanting me to be better, with ever strike I felt your desperation in having me be strong. You wanted to break down that wall but you couldn't, you knew if I couldn't handle even a fraction of what you displayed before me, then I'd just be like all the rest that fell and broke your heart. Id just be like all the rest that helped make your heart the impenetrable diamond that it has become.

But today, I held my own. Today, I showed you that I HAD been learning. That even in the time we shared I had grown, grown a lot. My power has increased, my skills and determination, grown. And even though I still couldn't best you, I showed that nothing was going to stop me from being at your side.

and it seems that was what was needed to finally create enough of a crack for me to work my way in, for today, in this moment, you finally said those words to me...

"I love you."

How long has it been for you, mistress? a few years? a few decades? a few millennia? more? How long has it been sense you dared to utter those words. Dared to bring along the feelings that they come with. How long has it been sense you dared open your heart, fully, to another?

Well, I guess it doesn't matter now, for you have. You have to me. You've opened yourself up to this one dumb Kirin that has fallen head over heels for a dragoness way above her league. But you weren't, were you? You weren't out of my reach, for as you've just proven with those words, you feel the same way I do. You love me, just as much as I love you. You make me happy in ways I could never hope to feel from anyone else. You make me feel safe, and protected, a feeling I never thought I ever needed to feel. But you helped me realize that I did. You helped me grow stronger, you continue to even now. With the utterance of those words, I vow to never make that heart close up again. To always be the one that lets you feel these feelings without holding back. For I feel them too, I feel them and I've always felt them. and in this moment, this moment where you've broken down those walls from the inside, where you've chosen, now and for forever, that I am worth trying one more time to be happy for. In this moment, I couldn't be more overjoyed.

And the only worry I have for the future, is that calling you my love instead of mistress is going to take some getting used to...

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And so the arch concludes, to bring about a knew beginning >///> hehehe.

This was just, and absolutely fantastic picture by  AilaAnne I got with  Bree_ducky. We've been doing a lot together with these two, and as the stories grew and the feelings between these two did as well, Well, Miirrym finally thought it time to let her heart open up again. The scene was amazing, and the night shortly after was bliss >///> , and it just had to be depicted, and I'm so happy Bree agreed. Aila did a just stunning job bringing this moment to life, from the moon and the stares casting light from overhead, to the tears welling up in each of there eyes as they both slowly realize the words that just came out of Miirryms mouth. It's just...so touching and I just... ;3; I love it. I love it so much, and I'm so happy to see it so well made. (Blixtin's armor looks absolutely fantastic too! fully created by Aila and it just fits her perfectly, simple yet completely functional and I love it!). I can't gush enough about this pic and the feelings and memories it contains, so I'm just going to leave it all at that ;3; thanks so much to Bree for being such an awesome person and creating these stories with me (when they can), and thanks so much to Aila for bringing this touching dear scene to life so beautifully! can tell this will be a pic I come back to for many many years to come.

Original: [when uploaded]

Art by  AilaAnne

Miirrym goes to  Bree_ducky

Blixtin is mine!