Kiss Me Softly

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Hearts are said to be the most resilient part of us. It is capable of being broken over and over again, but no matter how many times it is broken, it always manages to pull itself. Some people guard their hearts jealously against the wiles of others that would tinker with it. Others seem to have hearts made to break, and give their heart out at the first sign of affection. The process of breaking and remaking happens so often, I wonder whether they truly ever break at all.

I was one of the former, in that I trusted no one with my heart, but myself. And the best way that I found to protect my heart was to lock it away and throw away the key. It wasn't that I had my heart broken before, or ever even put my heart out there, but I knew myself too well to trust my judgement in delivering up my heart. Instead, my heart remained buried in the deep recesses of my soul as I was buried in the basement of the lab I worked in. Neither were ever expected to see the light of day, but that isn't how things ended up turning out.

When you are buried in your lab, ever day of the week from morning until night, you tend to overlook a number of things. One of the things that I frequently ignored was the weather. It rarely mattered to me if the sun was shining or clouds filled the sky. The weather could be hot or cold, but I didn't care as the lab was all I knew or cared about.

The day I should have paid attention to the weather, resulted in me being snowed in at my lab. The snow had fallen so much that I could not even get out of the door to reach my car. I stood staring out the window without seeming to comprehend my predicament. I didn't panic, but merely shrugged my shoulders. I had spent the night in the lab before, and this time would not be any different. I proceeded back down into the basement, where I conducted my work.

As a scientist, I received money to conduct research into topics that people fond useful. It was what I devoted most of my time and energy to and I could say with confidence that they got a very good return on their investment. However, also as a scientist there are things that interest you that you cannot help but to study. So, I also had a secret pet project that I worked on, and devoted the other hours of my life to. There was little else for a single man, ensconced away from the world to do.

Now, I had all night to tinker with my own little private work. While my sponsors as you might call them got results on moving items through a portal to a preset destination, I worked on recalling items from a specific destination. I wanted to know if there were dimensions that might be reached only through my research. Now, was as good a time as any to test out my machine. I hadn't set it up yet to reach a specific place, but I wanted to see what might happen if it wasn't set to recall from anywhere.

The machine whirred to life and the entire room was filled with a massive amount of energy. I could practically feel the energy all about me, but in an instant it all disappeared and I was left in the dark. I sighed and chalked the test up as a failure as the power was restored to the room. However, I was not ready for what I saw.

In the middle of the room now was standing a giantess. Her size was the first thing that caught my eye, but the second was the way that she was dressed. It was abundantly clear that she was not from anywhere that I knew of nor quite possibly anywhere in this world at all. She was dressed in an ancient form of battle regalia. Her helm was gold crested and sat high upon her head. Her breastplate was freshly burnished and glowed in the dim light of the room. The color of her armor was a bright crimson that cast a pall glow all about the room. In her hand, she grasped a halberd of a great size, while the other hand rested on her hip.

I was dumbfounded at the idea that something, no someone had come through the portal. That there was something else out there that neither I nor anyone else had known about. My mind was incapable of being able to understand that someone stood before me. We both merely looked at one another in silence until she took a step forward.

"You voice has beckoned me forth, and I have come to you. However, it is not that I come freely and with reason. I have a warning for you." She had come even closer, and removed her helm as well. The dark tresses of her hair flowed down over he shoulders and the shadows from the helm disappeared to reveal a rich and full face.

I had never been one to really appreciate beauty in any of its corporeal forms, but she was too handsome and close to not fully appreciate. I could feel myself unwillingly being pulled to her as if by some unknown string betwixt the two of us. Although, she said not a word more it was as if her movements spoke volumes. She was telling me of the beauty of discovery and the potential of my work.

Yet, before I knew it her lips were upon mine and the entire world around me seemed to fade to grey before completely disappearing into darkness. The only thing that I knew was that her face was pressed to mine. Time stopped and I continued to be swept into the moment.

I never realized that I was really being swept into the moment. Ever so slowly my heart was being pulled from my very being and my soul sucked forth from my own mouth. Finally, the act culminated in my very heart and soul being completely transferred into her as she faded from my own world back to her own.

"The work that you set out was not of your own volition. The secrets of my world called out to you and beckoned you reach for it. However, our worlds must never meet for the nature of your world would be the undoing of mine. The only way to cure you of this malady is to take this knowledge and more from you. However, to take would not be right and I leave you with this kiss."

Years have gone by and my heart still has not recovered from the kiss. My entire being was in that kiss and yet no matter how hard I tried there seemed to be nothing that I could to get the kiss back. My heart could never mend and my soul remained lost. Although, the feeling had been in an instant, the effects had been lasting. The kiss treacherous as it was the ruin of me, but I would never forget the feeling.