"When we first met, there was no spark, no instant connection, nothing like in fairy tales, at least, not for me. Then again, that's the way it always was for me. Everyone always thought they loved me, but they didn't know me very well. They liked the idea of me. They built images in their mind about who I was and how we would be together, but it was all an illusion. I live my life based on illusions. I can never tell who really wants me, who really connects with me. That's because I was born with the power of attraction. No one can refuse me. Everyone loves me. But only because I control their emotions. Their needs, their desires, it's all based on what I will them to want. Most of the time I do it without even trying, it just happens. And it made me realize that my life would always be a lie. At least, until I met him.

I met him in the between - an alternate world we can enter by running through trees. It's beautiful there. Alluring and magical, it is always night time and everything casts a glow. The trees glow, the flowers glow, the water glows... it's an amazing place to be, and I am fortunate I have the ability to go there, not many do. But of course, he does."

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"When I first met her, I couldn't take my eyes away from her. As the faint glow of a tree overhead cast itself on her, she seemed to sparkle. It was like she belonged in the between, like she had to have been born there. Of course she wasn't, but the patches of blue and green hues in her fur were so aligned with that world. I found myself staring.

She radiates a kind of beauty that the normal world cannot. She's also modest, I learned early on. She hated compliments - she didn't believe I meant them. Of course, I didn't give up. I learned she loved to talk about anything but herself, and the less I talked about her and how much I really admired her, the more she started to admire me.

In the end, we were the perfect match. She learned I wasn't under the lull of her ability. She wasn't making me love her. I just did. And I still do.

She loved the between and its escape from reality, so we eventually learned to live there as best possible. It wasn't easy, of course. Nothing there was made for living. It was all so very beautiful, but also so very much apart from what we, from the normal world, need. Still, it was easy enough to carry things there. To build a home and a life. And to start a family. A family that, we learned, took on far too many aspects of the between for it to not have been slowly effecting us as well."