The snow is beginning to melt, and with its departure comes the emergence of new growth. Easter lillies poke through the ground, their green stalks reaching skywards and giving the promise of new color. The trees are starting to bud and flower. Hibernating animals are starting to emerge from their dens, thankful that the long winter has ended. All around them is new life, though perhaps none was as anticipated as the birth of the new prince. His birth is the promise that their kingdom will survive, will thrive eventually. It signifies the love on which their kingdom was built. Yes, he will enter a quiet kingdom but by no means a dead kingdom. They have a silent sort of strength, a quiet force in the hurricane winds around them.
Today, he is in the forest. He is inspecting the trees and is pleased to find them coming into this spring even better than they did the last. The forest is ripe with the scent of new life and promise. It’s a fresh scent, tinged with a hint of hyacinth flowers and honeysuckle vines. Spring rains have eliminated the most of the remaining snow, and the whole land feels cleansed. Camelia had slipped off, and though he had longed to follow, he decided to give her space. He knew without a doubt she’d never leave him without a good reason, and truth be told he’d be no good at giving child birth advice anyways. Her scent was still on the wind though, and it still smelled healthy and clean, as it should. So for now he would leave well enough alone, though he would not venture out of the kingdom until he knew for certain her and the child were perfectly ok. But now there is a new scent on the wind, though still somewhat familiar. He had smelled it before, though he’d never put a face to the scent. With a smile he follows it, noticing his mother’s was now lingering with the strangers. Finally, he reaches the duo, and he comes to a halt and dips his head in greeting. “Hello mother. Fiasko, was it? Pleasure to meet you. I’m Mast.” he said, a genuine smile lighting his handsome face.
mast
be my asleep at last