Ah, fantasy echoes real life. How many of us have been in a relationship with someone so magical that we "know" it can't last; with that fear we hang on anyway, even while believing they will someday go away?
Love the design of this page, the cast of the shadows off to the right, everything.
So it looks like she was working as a weaver when he met her, possibly at a booth or a shop in the city marketplace. I'm trying to remember what his trade was--was it in textiles? That would be a cute way for them to have met.
"I suppose I was always waiting for her to fly away"--oh that irony. It stings. I know that she's a swan maiden, but her making him promise not to look into her background must have seemed so sketchy to him at the time. It's touching that he trusted and loved her so much that he agreed to that condition, though.
did...did he actually know, did he ever know, was that just a turn of phrase ghhghghghghhgghhgghgyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggghhhhhh
Love the design of this page, the cast of the shadows off to the right, everything.
"I suppose I was always waiting for her to fly away"--oh that irony. It stings. I know that she's a swan maiden, but her making him promise not to look into her background must have seemed so sketchy to him at the time. It's touching that he trusted and loved her so much that he agreed to that condition, though.