Moonspear Frozen here on the ladder of my life

"Handsome chap like you and no ladies lining up to woo you? That's very hard to imagine," Lele chuckled. "Or there is a story of, why is it so," she smiled, leaving it up to Alaric to decide, whether he wanted to share this or leave it be. 

"Well, I have not been sought after either - the way you put it," she said with such an ease that even surprised herself. Her mind was still not at peace at times for the difference between, how she had imagined her life to be and what it had turned out to be like. 

"So - no, no mate or children. Single and proud," she finished. "I used to think that I was the odd one out, but it turns out that there are far more single people out there than those, who have found their match. Even far less those, whose match is happy union," the longer she lived, the less she understood, what had held Larkspur and Tambourine together. They had had nothing in common, save for lust for each other every year.