[color=00a99d][center]Amalia Solair[/center]
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Amalia found the guard's way to her blocked by the body of another Gem. She touched her arm, afraid the guard would put his hands on her sister Gem in order to get to her. But the fire female's words were enough to sway the guard, if not her husband's threats. 

They were led away from the crowd were Amalia was chastised by the female Gem, apparently named Kalani. [color=00a99d]"I apologize," [/color]she said, trying to defuse the situation. [color=00a99d]"I feel no regret for my words, but I do apologize for causing you upset."[/color]

The husband of the Gem also spoke, berating her and lecturing her on the finer qualities of hatred. She merely shook her head. She could not blame the Drakken, for this was how they were raised to be, never knowing another way of life. She had to keep reminding herself of that : they didn't know better.
[color=00a99d]"Forgive my candidness and please show me patience my lord,"[/color] she said, showing respect for the title, not the man. [color=00a99d]"I am afraid in expressing my passions I stepped beyond my place."[/color] She listened to his words but instead of getting angry, as she supposed he thought she would, her eyes softened with sadness. [color=00a99d]"I am truly sorry. To live like this from infancy, to feel the cold bite of hatred and not the warm embrace of love... It is something I cannot imagine. My parents distanced themselves from me, but it was because they loved me too much to get attatched to me only to lose me."[/color]

Caught up in what she was feeling, she reached out to the Drakken, resting a gentle hand on his arm. Porcelain and steel... that was the comparison they made in her mind.
[color=00a99d]"But if The Great Mother had hated her children and destroyed them, as you say, then she would not have been a mother. I suppose it is more of a female emotion, to love no matter what. I can only hope that when you hold your child for the first time, feel that small spark of life in your arms, that you moved by love and will protect that life with your very soul. I myself cannot allow the icy cold of hatred in. Hating someone is easy. Love... that is hard. For nothing is stronger when it is reciprocated, and nothing hurts more when it is rejected."[/color]

Amalia searched the covering on his eyes, trying to see past it and the man who hid behind it. [color=00a99d]"I am not going to pretend I am not afraid. I am terrified. Attempting to love a Drakken is one of the most terrifying things I can imagine, because for all of the love I have to give I know it will not be returned. That is the cruel fate I have been dealt. But if I allow hatred in, as the Gem did who attacked you, I will lose myself to it. I will become like the empty shells that so many of our sisters are reduced to. And to any children I might have, I will be the only source of love to that child. My child will know the warmth of unconditional love, will be certain beyond all doubt that they will never have to question my love for them and that I will always be there should they need me."[/color]

Suddenly Amalia realized how much she had spoken. She had been raised to keep silent, to be a decorative jewel to be admired behind a glass case. [color=00a99d]"I am sorry,"[/color] she said, putting her head down to hide her blushing cheeks. [color=00a99d]"I do not... I should not be speaking so much. Forgive me."[/color]

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