Blooming Desire: An Extraordinary Spring Romance Collection by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Orel

My body tilts effortlessly in the air as I direct my course through the trees. The rain has ceased, leaving every leaf glittering with sunlight refracting off the drops of water. Spring rains are common in our forest almost daily for at least an hour or two in the early midday, but this is my favorite time of the day. The birdsong is just beginning, but the forest is otherwise quiet. The best part? Not many pixies zip yet among the trees, leaving me to my solitude. I need it.

A quiet dread has been settling over me since I woke this morning. I don’t know how Gwin talked me into another mating flight. It is foolish that I long for it knowing that there is a chance for my heart to be broken again.

Last year, following yet another failed mating flight, Dazi and I conferred on the situation facing our hive. Though it pained us, we are both practical enough to know what we are facing, regardless of Shavish’s stubborn refusal to see it. We waited, clinging to the males we have loved since we were younglings together, but with increasing demands from the elders it had been getting harder to ignore for some time. We agreed then to begin the process of splitting from our hive to make the separation easier when the time came.

Since then, it has been difficult, even more so when we allow ourselves to take comfort in the embrace of our hive brothers. But even that, neither of us have indulged in for months. I know it hurts Gwin and Shavish that we turn them away. I just can’t bear to get attached knowing that our time together is coming to a close. Instead, I’ve sought the silence of the deep forests frequently for what solace I can find.

We are all dealing with impending separation the best we can in our own ways. Gwin’s luster is almost gone as he spends more and more time in the company of the unmated females, his green wings dulling more with each passing week. He cannot serve them truly until he is accepted among the castri but he follows them as their guard, even though anyone can see his heart is not in it. Even the females have begun watching him in concern.

Among males who become castri, some take to it, grateful for the opportunity to lavish affection on the females before they leave their company, but there is always a handful who don’t survive long before their light dims and is finally extinguished.

Though Gwin resigns himself to being a castri, I am afraid that will be his fate.

I am not altogether convinced it won’t eventually be mine as well.

I am not sure how many more years any of us will continue on. Perhaps one hundred, maybe two. Gwin knows it. Dazi as well. My brother locks himself in his study more and more frequently to distract himself with the medicines and elixirs he concocts. I think even

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