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“Hurian! Hurian!” she screams. “It’s me! Don’t shoot!”
“Shit….” I exhale and put my hand on my chest as I look at the ground and drop my bow. I look back at her and shake my head as I gulp. “I’m so sorry.”
“What happened? I heard you scream!” she asks as she swims toward the river’s edge, submerging everything below her shoulder.
“I….” I sigh and rub the back of my head. “I woke up, and you weren’t there; I….I thought something or someone might have taken you. Then when I got here, I thought you might have drowned, or maybe something was holding you underwater. I…. I’m sorry, I just launched into hunter mode.”
“Hey,” she chuckles. “It’s okay. Take a breath.”
I do as she says and look around, noticing an odd thing sitting on the ground next to me. I look closer from where I’m standing and realize it’s Dana’s clothes in a pile a few yards away. Looking back at her, I notice she’s also looking at the clothes.
Before she can look back at me, my eyes naturally draw to her body beneath the water. Although submerged, the moon provides enough light for me to see everything. Her breasts are perky and full; they could fill my hand if I cupped them.
I see her clit slightly poking through her pussy lips; it’s tiny but plump. I feel myself get hard in my pants, and before I can adjust it, she looks at me in shock and tries to cover herself beneath the water.
Her wet hair only adds to the feelings I’m having. I imagine how her body feels right now, slippery from the water and smooth from the sunlight. She’s also tanned in the last few days from our walking, the light gold of her skin accentuating her eyes and lips.
While I’m hard for her, something begins to stir in my chest. She’s not just a hot object to me but a perfect sculpture of a woman who deserves to be cherished. She’s everything I never thought existed, kind, funny, intelligent, loyal, and dedicated, even though she drives me crazy sometimes.
She could be a Goddess if she wanted to. Looking at her right now, if I didn’t know her, I would think I stumbled across a queen of the river or the woods, a powerful force that can bend anything in her path to her will. The feelings are so strong I almost run toward her in the river to take her for my own.
I try to shut down the thoughts and feelings, but they’re not going away. I pride myself on control of my emotions, and when I can’t, the best thing to do is avoid the situation. With her, I feel like I can’t avoid her; I don’t want to. I want her….now.
Panic hits, and I realize I’m slipping into a fantasy about someone again. I can’t do this, and I can’t put someone else in danger because of my stupidity. My feelings have never done anyone else any good, and I feel too deeply for her to take the chance of her life being at stake.
The selfishness of love is something I gravely underestimated before. If Flora hadn’t been involved with me, there would have been no reason for her to die. She would be alive and enjoying her life today, and besides, I can’t betray her by falling in love with another woman.
That thought hits me like a train.I am falling in love with another woman.No, that can’t be what this is. Love makes you blind, and takes away your faculties, something I can’t afford.
I step backward, averting my gaze from her. I notice a look of annoyance on her face but ignore it as I turn around and begin to walk back to camp.
“Hey!” I hear her yell from behind me.
I keep walking. I can’t afford to let myself slip deeper into whatever this is. She can be mad at me all she wants, but she doesn’t know my aloofness is for her own good.
“Hurian, is that it then?” she yells angrily.
My curiosity piques, and I turn around to see her in the water, her arms thrown up in annoyance. “What do you mean?”
“You’re just going to run away from me again? Like you do every time we get close or whenever I ask why you came to Burning Sun. Is this how you live your life? I thought you ran headfirst into battle, not cowered away from something as simple as one little emotion.”
“One tiny emotion?” I ask, getting defensive. “What do you know?”
She sighs and looks at me with sorrow and desperation. “I know that running from something that makes you feel only strengthens the feelings. It makes you avoid life, and you miss out on so many things. Those walls you’ve built around your heart will be the things that kill you.”
Her comment hits a nerve, and I walk closer to the river. “Don’t tell me what building walls around my heart will do. I’ve run headfirst into love before; it was the stupidest thing I ever did! I paid for my mistakes, and my love wasn’t enough to compensate for the pain I felt afterward!”
“That’s what you do when you fall in love!” She smiles and scoffs with a sad look on her face. “You take the risk of getting hurt. That’s what love is; despite the fear and the things that hold you back, you take the fucking chance.”
A dam bursts in my heart when she says that. I’ve never thought of it like that, that I willingly took a risk falling in love before. Granted, the ending was more severe than anything I’ve heard before, but maybe she’s right.
My defenses peak again. I scoff and wave my hand at her before walking away again.
“Hurian!” she yells.
Her voice makes me stop, and I turn around again. “What?” I respond darkly.
“Get in this water right now.”
