A Lone Daisy

[Lily Carson]

Lily usually didn’t wander far from the centre of Prottetori territory but the beautiful summer’s day was all too enticing to resist going out for a walk in Central Park, she was invisible not confident to drop her veil.

There was the most gorgeous sweet fragrance of flowers in the air the ‘smell of summer’ she adored so much, she was so thankful that she wasn’t unfortunate to suffer from hay fever because not only would it be torture for her here but she wasn’t sure how she’d be able to stand not being able to freely smell this beautiful blend of the various flowers that lingered in the air…and to not be able to walk amongst them would be like depriving a bird from soaring through the air. She came to a stop in between two flower beds, cocking her head to the side, in the grass there was a lone daisy, pretty but belonging to neither of the flower beds. Any other person would just walk by the lone daisy, maybe crush it by accident but there it was the dainty delicate daisy sitting healthily by itself. She sat down behind it, and absent mindly stroked it, in some ways she thought she was like the daisy only she had found the Prottetori, and she had her powers- probably the only things that had prevented her from being killed…’prey’ long ago.
Seeing the lone daisy standing alone all by itself, as sad and corny as it would sound made her pluck up the courage to drop her invisible veil making sure there were no one around to see her appear out of nowhere, she did so.
There was no one around in the area of the park she was in, but she still felt utterly exposed and vulnerable, she didn’t know how people could stand it, being so exposed…she didn’t know how regular humans could do it, but then again they didn’t know of all the evil things out there not really anyway. But she wasn’t alone, no she had the daisy and the other flowers as her silent company, and for a moment the only sound she could hear was the peaceful sound of a bumble bee’s hum and a songbird’s melody.

She sighed and closed her eyes and as a light and gentle breeze caressed her cheek she smiled contently, there was no one about at all, it was so peaceful…maybe dropping her veil wasn’t too bad of a decision after all.

[Joel Reule]

Pads hit the forest floor with each step a large print left in the dirt, Joel walked through the trees taking one more step forth the black paw switched to a large manly hand, and the fur upon his legs vanished into nothing, rolling his shoulders back one at a time Joel groaned a bit. "Wish I could remain that way." He muttered with a heavy sigh, "At least I got some fresh air."

As the tree's cleared and the small field of wildflowers came into sight, his amber eyes fell upon the girl in the clearing, the doe eyed beauty looked lonesome but not at the same time. He decided to continue with his walk, humming his new sweet and soft melody that he had been working on. The tune was low and slow, that built to a great crescendo, for him normally this meant a long mournful sound much like that of a howl. But this time it was different the song had some meaning behind it, the words were still a loss to him but they would come, just like they always did.

He turned his gaze on the girl again as he passed behind her, she looked to be a normal human, and perhaps would like some company, so he cleared his throat slightly, "Miss?" He questioned his voice a guttural deep sound behind her.

[Lily Carson]

Lily was lost completely in her own world for a moment until she was startled by a throat clearing , she froze for a moment her heart racing like a terrified deer caught in the headlights and she seriously considered raising her invisibility veil and erasing their memory of ever having seeing her disappearing act. “Miss?” A man questioned. Oh man…it was a guy, Lily had very little interaction with the opposite sex, she was rather intimidated by them really, there was only a few of the Protettori men that she actually knew and spoke to, and even fewer men outside of her clan.

She carefully looked over her shoulder only to see a tall much older man, he was handsome no doubt about that, with short dark hair and incredibly shocking green-gold eyes. She turned back around again back to the man, panicking. What was she going to do? She tried claiming herself, he seemed friendly enough ‘Come on Lily, get a grip’ boy did she hate this anxiety of hers, she needed to get over it before she gave herself a heart attack with all her stressing worrying and panicking over nothing…’Just talk to the guy, it’s not like he’d bite your head off’ damn it. She began panicking again ‘Idiot, you’re just scaring yourself. Just just do it already’ she told herself, calming herself down and trying to get a grip she looked over her shoulder again, and turned a little so she didn’t have her back completely to him but she was careful not to harm the daisy. Like most people she sees and first meets she wondered a lot about the guy, his life, his plans, was he normal? Did he have a wife and children he went home to every night after a hard day’s work? Some may think it strange for her to think such things…but her having a very abnormal life made her fascinated and intrigued about people with normal lives. It was the desire to have something you couldn’t and it was something that ate away at everyone, even if they weren’t fully aware.

Lily wasn’t sure what she was meant to say, would she say ‘Yes?’ or ‘Mhmm?’ or ‘Hello’ or what? She was so used to being alone most of the time, her own fault of course but she was. She nervously played with the hem of her light white dress, her lacey sleeves slightly covering her hands delicate hands. She tried to speak, only nothing came out, her voice had failed her darn it. She tried to calm herself, plucking up the courage to say something to the man and not completely ignore him or do a disappearing act.
“Sir?” She said quietly, at first not really looking at him but then she remembered something she read; eye contact means confidence, and no eye contact meant the opposite plus it meant submissive…she tried raising her eyes to make eye contact and managed to do so, but didn’t really feel comfortable doing so.