The story of Oriana Borealis begins with the Great War. For when the fire bombs raided the roof of her castle, she was just a child who only knew how to goo-goo ga-ga her way through life.
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Protestors surrounded the once peaceful walls of the castle, rioting for selfish means. As flames rained down, the cold of the night scorched with evil intentions. Commonfolk abuzz with weapons and uneducated opinions raided the castle walls.
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Traitors rode the wave of rebellion and the castle was sieged. The King held hands with his Queen, one last time, and cried a betrayed cry as poison raced through their veins. They denied a shameful death and passed on their own terms, hand in hand.
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Wrapped in the secure arms of responsible adults, her mother's lady-in-waiting and her brother's knight, Oriana Borealis was transported through the dungeons, hidden away from the preying eyes of those who wanted the bloodline dead.
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Sides were switched, the throne was overtaken and a cheer of triumph echoed the welcome of Aurum(s) and the rise of Nobelai.
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The Great War divided the masses as they believed what the Oracle had commanded:
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“God, in fashioning those of you who are fitted to hold rule, mingled Gold in their blood, for which reason they are the most precious and called them Aurum — but in the Nobels, the helpers of the fittest, he poured Silver and called them Argenti, and Brass in the brave Warriors who are called Aeris, and Iron in the Workers known as Durus. Doing so, he birthed the magical empire of Nobelai for us.”
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Following the Oracle, Empress Lirien Madgira Enfield ordered an empirewide Crysomancy to take place, for determining the blood of Nobelai's inhabitants. To segregate the society and rule it with an iron fist.
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Royal Knights forced families apart, relocating members into different households in accordance to their blood. Creating new families as they preferred.
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The Aurums were readily taken away with smiles and killed off in privacy for the Empress did not require anymore competition.
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The Argentis were adopted by wealthier Nobels who lost their children to passionate murders, diseases or neglect.
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The Aeris were shoved into immediate work — for it was in their blood and they lived in times that always required more to kill — set up to put down revolts or relocating innocents.
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The Durus were settled into huts, on the outskirts of nations, ostracised from the 'better ones' and left to shoulder all the work. Amongst many a worn-out Durus, there was a farming lass called Genny who lived an honest life out of labour whilst feeding her only son.
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A son who was abandoned by his father, partly out of his lust for a younger woman, partly due to the fact that he was an Aeris.
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Her son, a five-year-old, whose veins pumped silver blood, unlike the Iron of his mother or the Brass of his father.
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Upon the field of carrots, in front of his hut, his little wrists were bound with ribbons and he was dragged away to be adopted by the childless Duke of Evermire. His mother trashed her arms in protest, cried till she bled the paleness within, and screamed in a world where no would listen.
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She begged the God, for if he was mighty enough to send out his word as the Oracle, he would surely disagree this seperation. A little boy, to be forever uprooted from his family just because the colour of their blood did not match—!!
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As if emotions and relations did not exist beyond blood!
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"If this be destiny, I spit on it!!" Genny raged on her doorstep as the sky raged on above, pouring generously to cover her misery and distribute it to all being beaten over by the drops.
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"SILENCE PEASANT WOMAN! YOUR SON SHALL SEE BETTER DAYS IN THE PRESENCE OF OUR GRACE!" A Knight shouted, pulling out his sword and pressing it against her dark neck. His eyes pooled with darkness, a window to his soul.
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Genny felt the vehement loyalty he possessed when the sharp edge dug deeper into her skin. It stung enough to make her toes curl and breath hitch. Her shallow breath misted the blade, momentarily.
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"And what of me? Am I not to be with one of my own? Just because some God or some damned Empress said—
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She could never complete her words for the sword was swung at her. It slid past her throat, and off went her head, rolling into the carrot fields, away from her body, bleeding paleness.
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"On spite against Nobelai. On blasphemy. Good rolled her head off; it was too up in the clouds, eh?" The Knight hunched his shoulders and chuckled with his mates. His fellows shared the mirth of her miserable death.
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Another down in the name of loyalty and religion.
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As her body fell to the ground, the Knight rose his sword to the skies. "IN THE NAME OF NOBELAI!!" He shouted a cry, followed with 'Hoo-Haa's of praise and confidence. All Knight raised their swords to the sky, clanking metal against metal, overpowering the sound of rain.
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Winning against nature.
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In the make-belief happy world of the whimsical Empress, all was well for the next twenty-one years.
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Seperated families found attachment with those whom they were paired with. Illiteracy ran rampant, history of the massacres were forgotten (erased) and risen was a new generation that praised the nobel hierarchical structure and their generous Empress who let all folks fullfill their destiny.
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"Dandelion into the wind you go,
won't you let my darling know?"
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The fluttering dandelion swayed with the spring wind; caught in its embrace, they danced into the air, spinning and twirling with eachother as they soared higher and higher.
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Carefree and effortless, the wind and the flower were joyful and weightless. Waltzing into the sky, becoming one with swirling wind, the dandelion sneaked through his open window and the wind guided it to him.
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The flower rested a soft kiss upon his unexpectant lips and Sirius could only widen his eyes in response. Quite comically surprised, he looked up only to find a cold gust of wind and nothingness. The flower landed over his papers.
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"Is there something you need, Your Grace?"
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Sirius could only shake his head, fingers feeling the lingering sensation as if hoping it would have lasted forever. Its suddenness had his heart aflutter and mind twisted in a delema of what-struck-him.
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"No, I just felt like something very cheesy happened to me..."
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— 'I think that you are the one for me.'
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His hand upon the small of her waist and other intertwined with her delicate fingers. A suffocating proximity between them, fuelled by their reckless eye-contact. His curious and defined, hers unsure and wandering. They met at a midpoint.
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Their feet moved with the beat.
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His, an elegant sway, and her, on his toes.
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He wanted her to look at him. All of him.
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He wanted to see her, delve into the ocean of her blue eyes and know her. All of her.
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— 'Cause it gets so hard to breathe'
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When he twirled her into the arms of another, when she spun back into his. Chests pressing, closer together, breathless and better together. No one fit as perfectly as they did, in eachother's arms, or her on his toes.
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Her embarassed gummy smiles.
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Made his heart race a mile a minute.
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—'When you're looking at me,
I've never felt so alive and free...'
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Her neck emanated warmth. Her scent surrounded him, all of him, it stayed with him all night. His selfish eyes caught themselves sneaking glances at her, innocently following her steps and laughing with her.
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Every inch of distance between them felt overbearing.
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Why could she not be right beside him? In a place where she was meant to be?
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His persistent feet found themselves walking towards her. Without his consent, his arm wrapped around her waist. Her playful eyes and comfortable smile peaked joy in his heart.
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— 'When you're looking at me, I've never felt so happy.'
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When did she become so stunning?
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When did she start looking so pretty?
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Right over the weekend Sirius would have been fine even if she would have waltzed inside naked and took a seat in his lap. He would have been a modest gentleman who would cover his eyes and remain patient.
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Though now, even her modest attire made his chest tighten like a blithering fool. The glamorous white dress would make him do a double take. Heck, Sirius was certainly sure she would look ethereal even in a cloth rag.
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Or her knitted dresses with those ugly flowers which she liked so much.
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Sirius was sure if he saw her smile in one of those, he would be down, bad and under in a heartbeat.
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— 'And I've heard of a love that comes once in a lifetime...'
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The crippling sense of realisation floated in his mind when she drew a sword at him. The blade against his neck felt like a happy mirage in the making. Her defined eyes when she swayed a sword, her dainty wrists bearing the weight of a bejeweled hilt, cutting through the air, leaving the crowd in fear and awe.
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Then, a trickling feeling of jealousy oozed into his waters of realisation.
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He wanted to be the only one in awe with her, for the rest of his life.
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He wanted to be the only one to see her smile, for the rest of her life.
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But, their relationship was established on mere contractual grounds and Sirius would dig a hole in that ground, name it his heart, and keep this a secret forever.
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That he had known a girl with a beautiful smile, a pure heart and ambitious eyes. That he had loved a girl who was bad at spellings but knew all the words. That she dreamt to be the one thing he detested the most. That he loved her, nevertheless.
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His waters of realisation would be enclosed inside a well of secret and Sirius would make sure no one would ever know what the dandelion did to him; and who he really wished the dandelion was.
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' ...I'm pretty sure that
you are
that love of mine.
'cause I'm in a field
of dandelions,
wishing on every one
that you'll be mine, mine.'
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Before the Empress finds out.
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