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He still wore his wedding robes, but they had changed They were now -limbed physique, which like most elves, was slender, and almost feminine

The patterns and symbols on his robe, where they were once black, were nohite, as he approached In his hand, he held a rose of the sa sensation arise in her chest It arm, and very pleasant, as she watched hiait

"I suppose you're wondering what the significance of the roses outside was?" He asked

"I … was hoping you'd tell htly caught in her dry throat Her skin had again turned that e shade of crimson

"That was the procession of roses, Tulyr," He said "Reolden choker around her neck, the ift, inset into its center

"Those colors, I said, are those of the procession of roses," Aldrec explained "It's an old tradition of ress of love"

He took several steps forward, and in the rune laentle, peaceful smile upon his face His blue eyes were transfixed upon her

"White roses," he said, pausing briefly to sniff the rose he held in his hand, " They can be used for any occasion, happy or sad, or are exchanged between perfect strangers without so much as a purpose"

He cails on his gar happened to the rose he held in his hand

"Yellow roses mean friendship But not just any kind of friendship They represent the deepest, truest level of commitment between two friends: a bond of love and trust that is sworn never to be broken"

A few steps more, and yellow becae of the bed, and brought her feet up onto its soft, petal-laden sheets

"Pink roses mean affection They are used between the closest friends of differing sexes, but as a sy attraction one has for the other, or mutually between them: the wish to beco down upon her face like a sun Mericlou found that she could not stop her rapid breathing The rose and the sigils upon her husband's robes were now as crih its vessels under her skin, artificial though it ht that pressed upon her with the intensity of a cat about to devour its prey