[ WP ] `` This is a happy story , despite how sad I am of writing it down '' .

I smile, standing out before my people because I've saved the world, and I cry on a small chair in my chambers because I've lost all I ever held dear. Still though through my adventures I gained that which could be lost, something that I had never had before, friends, family, and love. 
 
 I used to exist, and that was enough I thought. A role to play in a larger world, people to meet and scenes to act through with determination, a puppet on a stage. I wanted for and desired nothing else, for there was nothing else but the role and a stage to act upon. Princess? Queen? Words to be used and lives to be lived in the ongoing saga of reality, but nothing more than shadows dancing by the firelight. 
 
 Fate and destiny were all there was, an endless cycle controlled by forces beyond imagine. 
 
 Until you. Cast to an adventure across the world and for the life of the planet I tried desperately to play my part, the part I thought I knew, with words and lines written before I had learned to utter them, and yet you confounded me at every turn. My role, my act, my facade cast to the winds at every step as you defied your role, your part in the play. I begged you to speak the expected words and play the expected part and you would just, smile at me. A smile, just a smile, and yet it crosses through worlds even now to fill my mind with hope, with love. I love you, through death and damnation, in defiance of fate and destiny I love you and I would sacrifice the world, the very existence of all things to feel your touch again if you would but let me, but with a smile you'd wag a stupid finger at me and tell me not for you. 
 
 Why not though? The stage crumbles around me and I am cast into the pit, lost to the view of any who care, surrounded by the darkness with no light to guide my way to show my next step, the next move in the choreography of fate. Yet I know you'd smile and say better to be in the pit of your own free will, regardless of the laughter of the audience than stepping out the ordained pace of fate. Damn you for making my life joyous. Thank you for making my life joyous. 
 
 Though I may now dwell in the caverns of darkness I had love and was lifted beyond the sunset, beyond the clouds and glimpsed the eternal expanses beyond. I once was a subject to fate and though I may falter to despair at your absence I am free from the unbearable weight of destiny. I am me, and no longer am I who other forces decide. My passion, my pain, my bliss, it is mine now to own. 
 
 Because of you, I am free. 
 
 Because of you, I cry. 
 
 Because of you, I can love.
