with her mother. Both stopped dead and looked at each other for a long time. The queen sympathized with them and said nothing. Leon first found his language again when he fell on his knees in front of Rain and said: "I am happy to see you again, Princess Rain." Rain raised his hand in blessing and replied: "I am also happy to see you." With that she hurried past her mother and Leon.Leon looked after her for a long time when the queen suddenly said: "No matter how long she was gone, you haven't forgotten your feelings for her, have you?" "No, your Majesty," answered Leon. "I have never forgotten her. I still love your daughter."
Rain stood in front of her father's apartment and thought about her first meeting with Leon in ten years. Her heart beat up in her throat, her hands were damp with sweat and she was shaking. "Damn it," she thought. "I would have never come back. Then I could have saved myself all this." Rain thought for a long time about the words of the high priestess that she should listen to her heart and while she was still treating her father's wounds, she grabbed one Decision.
When Rain had taken care of her father for the night's sleep that evening, she did not go into her own room but into Leon's. In front of the door she took a deep breath and entered softly. She went carefully to his bed and looked at him for a long time until he opened his eyes and looked at her."What are you doing here, princess?" he asked confused. But Rain put his finger gently on his lips and looked at him lovingly. "Shhh, don't say anything now." she whispered and kissed him gently. Leon returned the kiss he had longed for years. "If that's a dream, then I'll never wake me up again." he says softly. "At Avalon I was told that when I meet you again, I should listen to my heart. And if I now give my heart the attention that I have denied it for the past few years, I will hear it cry out for you." With these words Rain pulled Leon to himself and kissed him without thinking about the goddess or her vows. While he kissed her, Leon let his hands wander gently over her body. Rain enjoyed the feeling she had longed for all the years. She loved him and she knew she was forbidden to do so. But it didn't matter to her whether she would be cast out or even killed, that night she gave him her love and slept with him.Rain stayed with Leon all night and they talked about how they'd both felt when Rain had traveled to Avalon. Leon finally explained to her what the kiss of her sister was all about and she wished she had confessed her love to him much earlier, because now it was actually too late for that. Rain had committed a grave sin and she knew it. If she had let herself be released from her vows first everything would have been fine, but since she hadn't done that, she believed that she had a lot to do.
When Rain woke up the next morning, she thought about the previous night and cursed herself for it. She gently freed herself from Leons' embrace and now decided to return to Avalon forever.
She ordered a servant to pack her things, said goodbye to her parents and set off for Avalon with mixed feelings.
When Leon woke up, he found that Rain was no longer there.He got up and went into the saloon to begin his service with the queen. He hoped to meet Rain there too. When Leon stepped into the hall, he immediately looked around for Rain, but did not find her. His first thought was that Rain was looking after her father, but when he found the king at his wife's side, another thought took shape in him: Rain is gone and will never come back !!
While the Queen walked into town accompanied by Leon, his thoughts only circled around why Rain had suddenly disappeared again without saying a word. The Queen noticed that her bodyguard was not quite there and went with him into a small street where the hustle and bustle was not quite as strong. There she took Leon aside and said to him: "Even if you don't want it to be seen, but I can clearly see that your thoughts are still about Rain. She asked me to give you a message: She loves you and even if she is back in Avalon now, her heart will always be yours."At that moment Leon knew that he had forever lost the woman he loved more than his own life to the goddess and would never see her again.
When Rain got to Avalon, she thought she would never go home. She believed that she had betrayed the goddess and everything she had learned. She stood trembling before the high priestess and awaited her punishment. But Rain had forgotten that the laws of Avalon were by far not as strict as those of the church and so the high priestess said to her: "My daughter, when you came here you were accepted with the holy vows because of your broken heart, but now Did you meet the man you loved back then and succumbed to your feelings. I am now facing a decision: Do you want to stay here in Avalon and end your life as the priestess of the great mother as you once vowed, or do you want to back home to the man you love with all your heart?The decision is entirely up to you, my child. Your place as my successor will be yours forever. "Rain felt torn back and forth; on the one hand, she longed for nothing more than to finally go home and lead a happy life with Leon, on the other hand, she also wanted to complete her job as a priestess. The high priestess allowed her to live with her uncle Close to their parents' kingdom to walk around
to think about it.
Rain spent half a year with her uncle and thought incessantly about whether she would now return to Leon and her family or to Avalon for her duties to the goddess. The decision she made in the end was anything but easy for her, but in the end Rain had made up his mind and now had to stand by it. She sent a messenger to Leon and ordered him to the next full moon on the shore of the summer lake in the mist of which Avalon lay.
When Leon arrived at the summer lake and discovered Rain on the bank, his heart jumped: He walked towards her, but when he realized that Rain was wearing the dark robe of a priestess, his steps slowed.Rain stood on the bank, serious and silent, and gazed into the mist. When she raised her voice and spoke to Leon, she no longer sounded like the princess he once loved, but like the mistress of Avalon herself: "I hope you realize that I asked you here to say goodbye to you. Me When I came here I swore my allegiance to the goddess and Avalon and now I have to keep my oath because the mistress is dying and I have to succeed her. "There was a long silence before Leon found his voice again and said:" Even if it was My heart is breaking, I won't stop you. You have to do what you think is right. I want you to know that there will never be another woman than you in my life. I will only be my bodyguard Follow your mother. "Rain struggled to hide her tears. But with the practice of a priestess she said calmly: "If the goddess wants it, we'll see each other again.If not in this life, then in another life. "With these words Rain got into the boat that brought her to Avalon and left Leon on the bank. In the middle of the lake, Leon watched with tears in his eyes as she called the mist and disappeared to Avalon. Into a life full of solitude .