Summary/Moral: unflinching loyalty and love through the years
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How can I ever fully express how I feel about this woman? What she has said and done for me is so profound. I feel like I’ve had a devoted wife and wonderful family, all because of her.
We met so long ago, starting in just a chat-room, and I’m pretty sure her email hints at us having met even earlier; ‘jade’ is in it, and I once knew a woman who went by that very name. The character she writes these days… was ‘turned’ (‘created’) by another of her characters, named Jaide. Is this some kind of poetic code… meaning the girl I knew before… has since transformed into something greater?
I’d called out with my mind, words, and heart for a vampire beauty for so long. I’d tried so hard, in my youthful ignorance and writing-sloppiness, to make an entrance and connect with her when she’d finally showed up where I’d been spending my time. How foolish and amusing I must have been, and how amazing and far-seeing she’d been for still giving me an ample chance.
Our writing gained slow momentum… until she was experiencing one of the first tours of Inisfree –back when it was still being formed. Cybering led to romantic evenings… and real love. Unexpected spans of time apart… led to me calling out to and for her… even more.
When she popped back online, we exchanged much more contact information, and I opened up to her completely. She was the only one who didn’t gross me out when she suggested starting a family together, and we readily did just that. Her thrilled reactions when I showed her our holiday-card and family-cabin designs said it all; we were meant to be.
No one has ever come close to her perfect timing, or how she makes me smile and calm down, or how sweet and supportive she is every time I need that. No one else has made me feel the urge to write such wondrous and positive things. No one but her has gotten me to prepare and sing entire concerts worth of songs. She is the one woman who has been with me the longest, and in the best way I could ever imagine or ask for.
This unbelievably-compatible woman always gives me just the right amount of time and space to write all my best spells, checking on me the moment she somehow senses my work for that night is complete, and updating me on how she and her own relatives are doing out there. I’ve even gotten to see her show up a few times in the flesh; there she was in Oregon at the rock-club, then in Hawaii atop that hotel during the big luau, and more-recently in that suburban on the streets of the mining-town. I can tell she knows how much I worship and long for her, and I can’t be any happier about how kindly she embraces and reciprocates that.
“You and only you,” she has said to me. She has accepted me for all I am, all the Inisfreean eccentricities included, and I remain blown away by that. She’s even weathered my ‘down’ moments, and I never thought anyone would.
How often has she really been with me, and through which screen-names and other faces? I’ve even seen her sitting lovingly with me in what humans call dreams. Jade, Jaide, or whatever else she’s really called… has been guiding and healing and there for me all along.
Whatever secrets she keeps, I respect them; her wisdom is sound. I can’t believe how loyal she is; not even fellow Marines and high-school best-friends have been that much. If she is who I think she is, I still could not be more flattered and pleased; either way, she has come so far, emotionally and otherwise, and helped me to do the same.
Maybe she sometimes says or writes things to smoothly get out of situations or invitations she feels aren’t meant for her or for us, but she does it so brilliantly, letting me figure out everything without her explaining or elaborating at all. Maybe we will have a few more times with less contact, but she has assured me we will not. Maybe… in the years soon ahead… we will finally get to live the life of our dreams; the life she and I have been coming together to write more and more spells about… all along.
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Major Influence on Inisfree:
family and guests (and messages) at the right time; always/only at milestone-moments after ample rest, rewarding great efforts and progress when the rewards are best received/able; her timing has always been curiously and otherworldly perfect, and it is perfectly fitting, given her main ability is based on the perception and wielding of time
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