A Faerie's Pining Heart

"Why now?" she asked as her voice rasped from disuse. "Why return now after all these months, years…?" Diaval felt his face twist in sorrow at seeing what his love had been reduced to. Yes, his love. He had wanted to tell her the day he had left, but she seemed unwilling to listen. And now, her plight was beyond what he himself had felt those days long gone. Maleval one-shot. R&R.