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\"pandoras_wedding_rings\"<\/a>I walked into the emptiness of Romanus Manor. \u00a0Cherry had gone back to where she belonged, with her husband. \u00a0I felt the chill of the air that runs through the whole house more so than ever before. I miss him. With every fiber of my being, with every pore of my preternatural flawless skin, I look at my hands… my left ring finger that adorns several stacks of rings, all with such different meanings and capturing such memories for me. \u00a0One in particular… an eternal band of small round diamonds… stands out for me. \u00a0It was the ring he gave me when we adopted our daughters, Saralyn and Brelynn. \u00a0Oh how I miss them. \u00a0They humanized me in a way that no other had ever before, or after. \u00a0I became a mother. \u00a0My heart opened and embraced the very many facets of this prism of life because of my girls. \u00a0Marius said to me when he gave me this ring…<\/p>\n

“No other love will ever be like my own as the love of our twins… and the love of the many more we will have for eternity blesses us with this joy a thousand times over.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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He always did have a way with words. So I sit alone in this big house, without him… without my girls. \u00a0Was I so terrible of a person? I really tried hard not to be. \u00a0I know, we all know, that we have to live with the affliction that we were given — many against our own will, others in the name of love, and still others for the bloodthirst — but we maintain that we do not have to lose our humanity completely and utterly. That is the teachings of Maharet and Mekare, the teachings of my husband, Marius.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Through the opening of adoptions, we’ve created beautifully diverse families in this House. \u00a0I am now grandmother to three beautiful girls, all so different yet so individually amazing, and one very smart and naturally talented, curious little handsome boy. \u00a0Armand and Merida’s family shall continue to grow as well Va’lis and Cherry’s family, especially after Marius returns and continues his work on the\u00a0Kickstart Serum, and my sons will experience the most human experience of their lives — the birth of their mortal<\/em><\/span> children, completely perfect. \u00a0I have faith that Maharet and Khayman will see no troubles with their current endeavor and that we will triumph over our own limitations. \u00a0All at the hands and mind of my beloved. \u00a0Talk about progress!<\/p>\n

But I still cannot help but to ache over the departure of\u00a0my darling and gorgeous Brelynn with her beautiful long blond hair and sparkling eyes. \u00a0The loss of Saralyn was especially hard on her. \u00a0Saralyn was the free spirit, the fearless, the accepting… Piper can tell you just how much she loved and protected her twin sister, but also helped her explore and discover. \u00a0Without Saralyn, \u00a0Brelynn had had no one to tell her things would be okay, to accept what she was, to embrace the power, to learn the ways of the mother and father that loved them. \u00a0For Marius, Brelynn’s departure had been an open wound to his unbeating heart that never healed. \u00a0She was “Daddy’s Little Girl” and I think she will always be. \u00a0Saralyn and I had that special bond as well, but I too loved Brelynn just as equally. \u00a0I simply could not be asked to choose between them… it would be impossible. Brelynn’s unique view of the world and her softness was what melted our hearts. \u00a0I loved to curl up with a book and read to her. \u00a0She loves to learn!
\nBut the lessons that her love for Va’lis would teach her were… were… just too much for her then frail heart that was engulfed in grief for her twin sister. \u00a0In Va’lis’ desperate attempt to belong to someone, he gravitated to Brelynn because she had a mother and father that loved her so much. \u00a0He himself had been robbed of this. He knew no other way to go about attaining it than to… own… her. \u00a0I saw this. I saw this coming away. \u00a0And nothing I said or did stopped it from happening… it only served to encourage it. \u00a0I blame myself entirely. \u00a0My husband tried to accept the relationship and he and I would fight, fight hard. \u00a0I saw it as him letting our only surviving daughter dive into a blazing fire. \u00a0He saw it as me driving her away from her family. \u00a0The strife was too hard to watch, to be around, to live with… so Brelynn ran away, far away. \u00a0I wonder if her heart can feel my despair… my loneliness… can she\u00a0feel the void of her father? \u00a0Her father that loves her so completely? \u00a0Would that be enough to return her to us?<\/p>\n

\"pandora\"<\/a>I sat on the edge of Brelynn’s bed, as tears slowly escaped my eyes. I wiped them off, but of course the blood in them would stain my face. \u00a0I knew I had to buck up, keep it together. Get up now Pandora, go wash your face, brush your hair, look the part. \u00a0Just then, there was a slight tap on the door. \u00a0“Domina est okhai omnia?” \u00a0Cassius’ voice rung in my ears. Hearing that old familiar tongue, one that those of our time — like Flavius and Cassius — knew so well. \u00a0It reminded me I am not alone in this big house and that brought me comfort. “Ego vero, cumi ex,” I answered and my face felt a warmth in that moment. “Ibimus verba vitae aeternae venari?” He asked. I smiled, “Sed scis mulier primum fieri.” I walked over and opened the door. I hide very little from my sons and Cassius was in fact one of my stepsons, created by Marius. His presence felt like having a little bit of him, as did Armand’s.<\/p>\n

He followed me to the bathroom, where to my surprise all my hair products had been replaced. I mean a girl can’t go without her Paul Mitchell. \u00a0Knowing Va’lis he’ll be over to have me do his hair. \u00a0I give it 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I walked into the emptiness of Romanus Manor. \u00a0Cherry had gone back to where she belonged, with her husband. \u00a0I felt the chill of the air that runs through the whole house more so than ever before. I miss him. With every fiber of my being, with every pore of my preternatural flawless skin, I … Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,35],"tags":[91,133,145],"class_list":["post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character-journals","category-pandora","tag-brelynn-de-romanus","tag-marius-de-romanus","tag-pandora-de-romanus","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\/5610","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=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/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=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}