Diplomatic Immunity--Preface: Vasha's Discovery, Part II

[Bront]

"Time can heal, if you let it. As can someone special, and I know there's someone special out there for you. If this scheme of yours won't help, then why do it?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

"It won't help me, but I'm not the one that matters...And no, you're wrong. There isn't anyone out there for me..."

 

[Bront]

"But you are the one who matters Alyz. Sister, I love you dearly, and seeing your heart ache makes mine ache as well. If I, of all people, can see past what you've done, and still love you like a sister, why can't there be someone out there for you?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

"I don't matter because there's no way for me to be happy, so there is no sense in trying. I'm weak, Vasha, but my standards have also been set far too high by my status...if someone can see past what I've done, then it's nice, and I'll have another friend like you or Louteah, but that is all..."

 

[Bront]

"Love doesn't fit any standards. Father certaintly wasn't up to the standards of your status, and that never stoped you from loving him. And don't tell me you don't want to be loved, for I know better than that. Perhaps you simply just expect too much from it. Just let it happen sister, and things will follow their natural course."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"He didn't have the same social status, but I have never cared about that. He was most certainly up to my standards, Vasha. He surpassed any standards I might have spectacularly. But there is no man alive who does so."

 

[Bront]

"Each love is different Alyz. No one will ever replace my father in your heart, but you don't need them to. They need to be their own special love, much of how you might love your mother, your father, and your siblings differently. As for wonderful men, there are several out there. Bertram is a dear, and one of the nicest men I've met. And Zythryd has a true heart of gold."

"I think you need to stop listening to what you want here" she puts her finger on Alyz's head "and start listening that what you need here" she says as she puts her finger over Alyz's heart.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Alyz shakes her head.*

"No. You're wrong. Believe me, I can lead with my heart when my head screams that I must stop...I do it far too much...but my heart is uninterested in any man I have met, and that includes both of those you mentioned."

 

[Bront]

"I didn't tell you to be interested in them, just to let your heart loose to find one."

Vasha pauses "What are you afraid of sister? Why do you fear letting yourself love another?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

"I fear nothing, and I'm not afraid to love another. There simply isn't another Vasha, so please stop tormenting me..."