{"id":3870,"date":"2014-06-21T15:41:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T19:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.childrenofdarkness.com\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2014-06-21T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T19:41:52","slug":"i-await-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/i-await-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"I Await Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenofdarkness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/q8f5sz3f5p6oqof5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3871 alignleft\" title=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/_d_improd_\/q8f5sz3f5p6oqof5-300x267_f_improf_300x267.jpg\" alt=\"q8f5sz3f5p6oqof5\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small><\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I knew Mary would run to Lestat.\u00a0 I knew it.\u00a0 And I didn&#8217;t mind one bit, Lestat is like the\u00a0bratty\u00a0kid in the family\u00a0who\u00a0everyone simply adores.\u00a0 Lestat told me she would be spending a few days in New York, alone.\u00a0 I respected that, as much as I wanted to run after her,\u00a0 and just waited.\u00a0 And waited.\u00a0 I needed her like mortals need air to breathe.\u00a0 Mary had become much more than just my muse, she was smart, sassy, and had grown strong.\u00a0 I wanted nothing more than to keep her close.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, she sent word she would be coming back to Sosaria.\u00a0 So I dressed in my best suit and made way for the portal in Umbra.\u00a0 I waited for her all day.\u00a0 I wanted my face to be the first thing she saw as she stepped through.\u00a0 And when she did&#8230; she was back to her natural blonde hair, dressed in a sexy little black dress looking very much like the rock star she is, some might even say she looks like a movie star. To me,\u00a0she made me forget to breathe &#8212; quite literally.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenofdarkness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/marius-mary-2.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3874 alignright\" title=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/_d_improd_\/marius-mary-2-300x205_f_improf_300x205.png\" alt=\"marius-mary-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small><\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our eyes locked and it was all she wrote as we desperately fell into each other&#8217;s arms.\u00a0 I knew at that very moment, this woman would be mine for the rest of whatever eternity we both would share.\u00a0 That I could make her happy, that I could be her husband fully without reservation, that Pandora would respect this for once, for the first time in her life, that these two women would shape every decision I made on behalf of my family.\u00a0 Oh how much power they had.\u00a0 Pandora knew it, Mary would now learn it. The three of us would rule supreme.<\/p>\n<p>I felt a peace, a peace that I so longed to feel in the last few weeks since news of the Draconians settling here broke, a peace I now knew I&#8217;d only ever feel in their arms &#8212; Pandora and Mary.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve become the new Trinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I knew Mary would run to Lestat.\u00a0 I knew it.\u00a0 And I didn&#8217;t mind one bit, Lestat is like the\u00a0bratty\u00a0kid in the family\u00a0who\u00a0everyone simply adores.\u00a0 Lestat told me she would be spending a few days in New York, alone.\u00a0 I respected that, as much as I wanted to run after her,\u00a0 and just waited.\u00a0 And &#8230; <a title=\"I Await Thee\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/i-await-thee\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about I Await Thee\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[133,134],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character-journals","category-marius","tag-marius-de-romanus","tag-mary-drown-2","infinite-scroll-item","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}