Yuki,+Magical+Girl+of+Love,+Receives+her+FIRST+Love+Letter

Yuki will receive a letter from Azarius. It will read:

// Miss Ashdown, // // When I’m with you my heart is overcome with joy. Words fail me in your presence everything about you overwhelms my senses so I shall attempt to tell you how I feel in prose. //

// Miss Ashdown, // // Her beauty is liken unto that of a million glittering diamonds in the sun....... // // Each reflecting its own ray of light making brilliant patterns......... // // The angels gasp in the wake of her presence.......... // // She, in herself, being a masterpiece of Sune’s work....... // // As Sune’s gentle hands molded her Sune knew exactly who she would be............ // // She would be the one who could make a man stop and gasp........... // // Who could content a man just being in his arms.......... // // Making him fill with warmth through just a brush of her lips............ // // Whose smile could light up the surrounding darkness.......... // // Whose laugh could make any man believe he had wings.......... // // She would be the one who that young man would fall for.............. // // Who would see her true beauty in the surrounding gloom.......... // // Who would long for mere minutes with her......... // // Who would always long for just the feel of her hand......... // // He would know how lucky he was........... // // He wouldn't mistake infatuation over love........ // // He would realize all prayers had been answered........ // // He would simply pray"I want her to be the one". //

// I hope you find this humble prose pleasing it only begins to describe how I feel Miss Ashdown your humble servant, // // Azarius. //

Yuki Ashdown, magical girl priestess of Sune and matchmaker of love, held the letter up to hide her blushing, happy face and breathed in its sweet smell of jasmine...

Azarius. Azarius had sent her...a letter...

She had hidden herself away into one of the small couples’ nooks in the temple, opening it with much curiosity. The day before had been lovely! She’d never ridden a...er...planar beast before and the great horse had been remarkably gentle, just as Azarius had promised. The weather had been warm for Spring, with bees buzzing lazily around the great flowering fruit orchards of the Vastel estate. And Azarius had been so kind. Such a kind...and patient teacher! So attentive and...and...interesting and witty and funny! And...And...her heart had pounded more than once when he looked at her.... HE was just...SO UNGODLY HANDSOME!!! How was it possible to look THAT beautiful and not be...beloved of Sune! The day had passed all too quickly and...she had almost forgotten her evening duties back at the temple, rushing home just in time to receive retribution from her own personal tyrant - ANOTHER full day of cleaning duty.

But...

Hadn’t it all been worth it?! Her riding...skill was a LITTLE bit better and...and...she...was holding her VERY FIRST LOVE LETTER!!!!

She couldn’t believe the wealthy noble had sent ‘her’ a....a...LOVE LETTER. Even after...she had...turned away his confession too! Merchant princes REALLY WERE amazing! Ambitious and confidant, didn’t they pursue the things they wanted? It was all so HEADY and FLATTERING! Embarrassing and wonderful and amazing and bewildering and...and so many other things she couldn’t quite put into words! For the first time in her young life, she was being ardently pursued. “HA! Take THAT Axton and ALL your HUNDREDS of admirers! Your...Your slave has an admirer too! And he’s RICH and HANDSOME and KIND and NOBLE and...SUPER CHARMING and...HEROIC and...and YEAH!” Yuki threw her arms up in the air...in a very unpriestesslike manner. She could almost forget...if she REALLY pretended hard enough...the way Azarius’ clothing had moved unnaturally around him...undulating at odds...with the wind. Or the disconcerting look of his unnaturally mismatched eyes... Or the ease at which...he wielded magic out of thin air... Almost forget...it was all a gift...in exchange for that dark...and horrible price.

Yuki was just about to reread her love poem a third time when it was unceremoniously ripped out of her hands by a glowering, glorious demon priest!

“MEEP!”

“OH HO! So THIS is where you were hiding, Slave!”

“H...Hey!!!” Yuki jumped up, trying to snatch her letter back from the tall senior priest, “Give it back! Tha...That’s PRIVATE!”

“Private, eh?” Axton’s eyes, glanced down the page, “...is it now...” And he began to read the poem aloud...

"Oh...oh my!" Axton read each line while elegantly dancing out of the reach of Yuki's slender, grasping hands. He was suprisingly agile as he weaved around her, holding the precious letter just out of reach.

"Give..that back!! Demon!!!" Yuki lept up again, trying to snatch the letter back but he raised his hands up just out of her reach and she grasped nothing but air.

"So...very...ardent! Miss Yuki! It appears you have a suitor! And an ardent one!" He continued to read the letter, surprised...Azarius? He thought it would have been Erevin but he'd...noticed that Yuki hadn't talked about him...for the last few days like she usually did. He wondered...what had happened while he'd been confined to the temple.

"P..please...." Yuki looked up at him...then grinned "I have still...have this...you know..." She swept her hands across at her cleavage, and the threat of Helena's scroll.

"Fine! Hmph! Far be it for me, a priest of Sune...to stand in the way of true love...." He handed her back the love letter, which she snatched greedily. Damn Helena...he'd have to go talk with her right away...why did she still have that damnable scroll! He glowered...and what was Azarius...up to. Yuki was just a simple...priestess of Sune...did he intend to have her as his mistress while he married another woman?