May-“‘Love is a Battlefield.’”
“Love is a battlefield.”
It was almost nine hundred years into the war that Pearl had first heard that phrase. Humans used it to describe love as something difficult and full of challenges, but to Pearl, it couldn’t be more real.
She knew Rose didn’t love her back. Not in the way Pearl loved her.
So, her love was a battlefield.
Her love was jumping in front of every enemy in Rose’s way, protecting her as best she could.
Her love was the battlefield where she retreated into her gem nearly every day.
Her love was a battlefield where she watched Rose fall in love with countless men before they eventually died, leaving Pearl to comfort her.
Her love was a battlefield where one day Rose herself was gone.
Her love was always a battlefield.
One she would never stop fighting, even when there was no one left to fight for.