Patches your ask game is so cute🥺🥺
Can I pretty please get a potion to deal with Mirio?
It's been so long since I've thought of him and honestly getting a lil lovesick
Mwah mwah mwah mwah mwah
Love you so so much and I hope you're doing well💝
Oh traveler, how lucky I am to never have faced such a dilemma. To be lovesick over one we hold dear may be as debilitating to one’s own life as a sickness that can leave you bedridden. I do not envy you or your situation.
With a love gone away, and for so long as well, I can only bestow upon you a simple lilac vision potion. It will allow you a chance to see your partner within your dreams; to interact and feel their presence as if it were real. It may just help with your longing for them.
Just be sure to think of them before you fall into slumber.
You were used to this feeling of loneliness. This melancholy ache that would take hold of your heart, never letting go for long periods of time. For it was not the first time it had fallen on you, and you were sure that it would not be the last.
You were warned, many a time, that this was to be the life of a noble knight’s wife, to be yours if you so chose to accept his hand and took his name. That many a lonely day would follow behind you, with the possibility of your heart being forever broken by the loss if he should befall a terrible fate in battle. But you loved him far more than any sorrow could bring, for his love made your heart feel true as steel, and thus you became forever bound to him and regaled yourself to this life.
Mirio Togata was the best husband you could have ever hoped for, and your time together was always sweet and full of laughter. He was like sunshine, a beacon of light, always bringing forth to you, and many others on occasion, such joy and tender happiness; that even the thought of him would brighten your mood and place a smile upon your lips.
You suppose that is why whenever he left it was like a rain cloud that would come forth onto you, following you around like a lost duckling as you tried to live without him. Tried to do your best to live your life as a dutiful wife, tended to the home you both created, as you patiently awaited the day he would come back. And become excited of what your days with him will be filled with once he did.
Though the longer missions he undertook always made doing what you needed, what you had to do to hold onto the light he left behind, nearly impossible. As your mind could not help but become cloudy with darkened thoughts of what might happen while he was away. But much like these dark clouds, the rain will come, and though it may be harsh and the winds rough, afterward the sun would shine brightly once more.
You just needed some help in finding a small break in those clouds to keep you going.
That break came from an unexpected source, on an unsuspecting day when you thought you did not need it at all. It was while tending to your garden on a warm and bright afternoon, the sun and task bringing forth a calmness and ease that filled your soul with a tender happiness, if for only that moment, as your pruned and made beautiful your primrose bushes and lavender; as gardening always helped you see the happiness in your world.
It was during that lovely day, amongst the flora and dirt, that you spotted her. A peddler, dressed in long flowing clothes and a hat that seemed too warm for the weather, wheeling a small but heavy-looking cart down the dirt path beside your home. It wobbled, creating the glass pottles inside to chime with every step she took, and you knew that if she was not careful it would easily tip over - for the path was winding and full of bumps. And yet she seemed to drive it without a care in the world as you watched with curious, but concerned, eyes.
“Excuse me, miss!” You called out to her, slowly standing from where you knelt; shaking the dirt from your apron as you stepped towards your wooden fence “Do you need assistance? One of your wheels looks a little shaky, I would hate for it to cause your cart to tip over.”
“Aren’t you sweet,” The peddler smiled sweetly, though it was hard to tell if truly it was as her eyes remained hidden behind the brim “Such sweetness is hard to find these days, you know?”
“It will be no trouble at all,” You smiled in kind, moving towards your home “Just give me a moment to grab - !”
“Ah, ah, ah.” She tutted, mirthful in her tone and smile “I never said I needed your help, I simply said it was sweet you would offer.”
“So…. you do not need it?” You question, frozen in your half-turned stance.
“No, but I think you need mine. Judging by the rain that has clouded your heart.”
Your confusion turned to one of bewilderment as you gazed at the strange person before you; unsettled by her knowledge of how she came to know what ailment you suffered from a simple look at you; and how she was now offering to help you, such manners unknown and perturbing to you.
“It is a good thing, I assure you.” She spoke softly, trying to ease your nerves as she opened her wobbly cart of tinkling glass bottles. She held out to you a potion a moment later, pulling it swiftly from her cart, the lavender liquid looked unbecoming as it sat within it container.
“W-what is it?” You stuttered, pointing at the container and refusing to touch it.
“Lilac vision,” the peddler claimed, “It will allow a person to enter your dreams for a single night. All you have to do is think of them before you slept and they will be there; sharing in themselves the same dream.”
“A strong illusion, is that what you are offering to me?” You asked, more confused than ever before as you tried to accept her kindness.
“I never produce illusions, my dear.” She tutted once more, gently placing the small bottle into your hand “It will be real, just as if he walked through this gate at this very moment, I assure you.”
You tried to argue further, tried to gain more information, but she left without another word after placing the lavender liquid into your hands; silently, in her own way, refusing to take back her ware as she trotted back along the winding path.
You watched her leave, brows furrowed until she was no more than a distant memory. With the sun lower in the sky you took it as your cue to return inside, to fix yourself some supper, and to try and accept what had just transpired. Before long, or at least it did not feel long as you stared off thinking of different scenarios and outcomes, it was time for slumber; your bed calling your name as your muscles groaned over the activities you put it through that day. Setting aside the bottle you gathered your shift and prepared a hot bath for you to soak in, another excuse to wonder whether or not to trust in it.
You long sat with the bottle, both in your bath and once you settled within the comfort of your bed, glancing at it every few moments as it sat upon your night dresser. Truly contemplating if you should trust in a wary stranger or not. Perhaps if you met her in a market, sought her out, and bought from her like you would with any other merchant, you would not be so hesitant, but you were.
As the hours passed that night, keeping you from your slumber, the tiny lilac bottle finally wore you down. Shifting once more to sit up against your feathery pillows you uncorked it, swallowing down the overly sweet mixture and trying your best not to cough back up, your curiosity getting the best of you. You were slightly amazed at how quickly it worked, almost immediately after taking it, your head got so lightheaded you could not stop yourself from falling back onto your pillows, the darkness of your mind surrounding you.
You would have thought yourself dead, the golden aura that surrounded you within a field of flowers and wheat would have made you believe it. Would have made you believe you were within a golden gate created by the gods above as they welcomed you as one of their own. The laugh made you sigh as you tried to figure out whether you should laugh at your naivete or to cry at it. But then you saw him, Mirio standing nearby as he glanced around - wondering where he was and why he was there.
“Togata!” You called out to him, not bothering to wait until he acknowledged you before running towards him; throwing yourself onto him.
He caught you with ease, a small laugh escaping him as he twirled the both of you around; unable to contain the happiness he felt at that moment. Stopping only briefly to have his lips fall onto yours.
“Have I longed these many nights to feel your lips on mine, my darling. Please, allow me another?”
I hope this was what you were hoping for traveler. I wish I could give you more to help satiate your breaking heart until your love can return home; but alas I can only create so much. May this dream of yours stay a sweet memory to fill you completely as time passes on. It will not be for much longer before they arrive back to you, arms open wide.
Do you want to take a chance on a failing traveler's potion? (closed)
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“It’s hard to think about my emotions as something, tangible. But I see them reflected in you. Your smile, your brilliant blue eyes glittering with an emotion I can’t quite put a finger on. Is it love? Adoration? Admiration? I can’t rightfully tell, but I find it endearing all the same. I find you endearing. A piece of starlight amongst the void of night. My only regret is, I couldn’t save those. I lost all of those pieces, when you died. I suppose what I’m trying to say is, my only regret is that I couldn’t save you in a way that mattered.” (for Emrys)
|| Go on anon and tell my muse what yours thinks of them ; accepting!!
He knew who this was.
Emrys sighed softly, a fond smile playing at the corners of his lips. So it seemed there was a certain mage he needed to go reassure, to dote on. To remind that it wasn't his fault what had happened to him in the end. Because who else would regret so deeply? Who else would let grief and love combine so heavily when it came to him? The king didn't even need to think about it as he listened to the recording provided, even with the voice altered somewhat.
"Such a silly thing you are, my mage." A piece of starlight, hm? Idly Emrys raised a hand to press against his chest, right over his heart. "You saved me in every way that mattered. Death was simply...inevitable. I hold no grudge, no anger. Not towards you."
Now he had to go find that mage and lay on him for a while. Maybe bite a few times.
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