TES - Tears

Living with a vampire isn't always easy. Iroroon can be expecting quite a lot of attention from poor Arkved, and when the "kid" doesn't get what he wants, vampirish instincts show up in a Balish kind of tantrum:
"You look at this flower more than you look at me! I'll never be as pretty as this flower so I'll make it ugly so you might look at me at last!"

More about those two in this story:

TES - Beautiful Minds 01
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3E342 - Sun’s Dawn
Though he had traveled to the continent but a few times in his life, Arkved had never managed to understand why the heartlanders found the Summerset Isle to be so "serene" and "brilliant". Brilliant, maybe. It was saturated with vivid colors everywhere. A clear blue sky, reflecting the pure blue waters of the seas and lagoons, and clashing with the warm ocher shade of the pale sands on the shores. The islands were covered with a luxuriant, virginal forest painted in jade and emerald all year long, and hosting an impressive diversity of flora and fauna, alike to a festival of dancing colors. Flowers and birds came through all the shades of the rainbow, to a point it became sickening. Brilliant. Maybe, yes.
But serene? Arkved let out a discreet chuckle at the thought. Only a tourist could find this place serene. You could travel east and west, north and south, and never find a single place that could possibly be qualified as "s