“I should have told you this before now. However, you remember when you asked me to think about what you could be?”
Edythe nods her head slightly apprehensive abut what my point could be. “Yes”
“Well even before last night, I had arrived at the conclusion of the V word. It seemed silly at the time but nothing else fit. Even the supermajorty of the myths failed to really fit. However, that made a sort of sense.
“Anyhow, that night I realized the Tribe’s myths and legends regarding you was true to some extent at least. After getting home, I mentally listed the positives and negatives of pursuing a relationship with you. I was an agonizing couple hours but that is just my way of thinking.
“I will deeply think about any major decisions, outlining a cost/benefit analysis. Then once I make the decision the stress simply vanishes. After the decision everything simply falls into place.
“So yes I know you ‘should’ terrify me in a myriad of ways. Except the only emotion you inspire within me is blissful happiness. You have me looking forward to ‘rainy’ school days because that means you will be here. The horror you keep expecting tto see from me will always be absent.
“And I know it is purely due to the depths of my feelings for you. Because your siblings, such as Royal, easily inspire dread, fear, and horror. They easily are able to make me cringe. Yet you?
“Intellectually I know you are a danger to me. I know there is a part of you that would love to suck ever last drop of the blood in my body.” Edythe visibly cringes at this idea. “Yet I am ok with that. My mother summed it up with her wedding vows to Jason. The very idea of life without you is deeply painful. That is literal pain. So
