Again she dances on the edge of my consciousness, laughing at me in my dreams. This is only fair. I cast myself as her fool from the beginning. When I told her she could have anything of mine; she plundered my heart, dazzled my mind, taking whatever it was of mine that she pleased.

We are trapped by convention and must marry another.Every good child knows: duty before your heart's desire.So in the shadows we remain.

A life I'd gladly give for what is living if there is noHappiness, truth, feeling, nor love?For surely as I was born of human bloodI am a creature of undeniable emotion that cannot be suppressed

It was almost physically hurting me not to admit to my whole family that she was mine. Ours was a love that I wanted everyone from St. Petersburg and back to know about. Not that I had ever even been to St. Petersburg, but once they knew who I was there, they'd knew who Wren was too.