Areiana
Love was hard on this one

Areiana breathed a sigh as she cut the final touches into the small piece of silver she carried. Turning it around in the light, she had to admit it was good. A small statue of a coatl and a banescale laughing and playing together... The coatl blue-tinged silver, with bronze for the wings, the banescale black onyx. She placed it down, daydreaming of Moonlight. The black banescale who she could not love... But she did. She plunged the hot metal carefully into a bucket of water, then cut into the bottom the words 'For you <3'.
She slipped out, placing the figure at the entrance to moonlight's room. Tiptoeing back to her room, she watched through the peephole as her crush walked out, saw the statue and smiled. He brought it back inside, putting it wherever he put areiana's countless secret gifts. Striding back out, he wrote 'thank you!' In the sand and walked into the wood. The brown and teal coatl sighed happily.

The next day, areiana wrote a letter. She poured out her heart and soul, telling all that had happened to her. How she felt. That she had been leaving metal figures for him to find. She did not sign it, instead she stuck a feather onto it. Moonlight would understand.
She lingered on the doorstep, holding the letter that confessed her love. She reached out to knock, but the door was already opened. Moonlight walked out, almost running into her. I mean, he'd be fine falling on a fluffy coatl, but his spines would have impaled areiana. He looked at her in surprise, taking the letter and skimming through it. He let it fall gently to the ground, looking at her.
"Silly that coatls and banescales can't breed, isn't it?" He said, smiling.
And that was officially the most wonderful thing areiana had ever heard.


to be continued.... In the words of a banescale.

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