Toothiana's heart felt crushed, like it was ripped out of her chest, "I..." She dropped to the floor with tears in her eyes and started crying on the cold floor.
The hard, ravaged sneer remained on my harsh, twisted countenance as I watched the her anguished tears seep from her lovely eyes that were shut tightly against the world...and I.
I couldn't provide sweet illusions. I couldn't conjure up and manipulate minds with magnificent, delusionally enrapturing dreams like others could. I couldn't lie. But I was well aware that the rest of the world could.
Lies frightened me. They terrified me. And the fact that everything over the millenia that had given me happiness...pleasure...joy.....were always revealed to be be something that was never meant to have existed--it brought a hard truth: I was never meant to be happy. Love was a lie. Dreams were frauds. Joy was temporary and it cheated you. But you would have forgotten it. You wouldn't ever have recalled the consequences. I did. I still do.
And although my both my heart and soul ached at the miserable sight of a beloved one in the harrowing depths of sorrow, I couldn't accept what was being offered to me. It was too late for anything.
I began to laugh, a ragged, torn sound that echoed the only despair and bitterness that remained.