The prompt: List 10-15 things worth saving, then choose one of those things and write about it.
- Prompt #64, Creative Writing Prompts

"Why loose your venom on me?" Roberts asked, eyeing the princess warily.
"You killed my love." There were tears straining Buttercup's voice, but she stood her ground.
"It's possible," the pirate said nonchalantly. "I kill a lot of people. Who was this love of yours? Another Prince, like this one, ugly, rich, and scabby?" His tone was laced with disdain.
"No," she said sharply. "A farm boy. Poor. Poor and perfect, with eyes like the sea after a storm. On the high seas --"

Aurelia threw the book across the room, whimpering.
It wasn't the first time she'd read the book -- it had been her favorite as a child. And she'd never seen Isaac Shatten's eyes, but the aching in her chest told her it was probably true.

He still loved her.
"Faithfulness, he talked of, madam, your enduring faithfulness." The tone that read the words was mocking, and when Aurelia Sunhome looked up, she was unsurprised to meet the slanting, reptilian eyes of Ralistrasza in her blood elven guise. "Taking a trip down memory lane, are we?"
"None of your business, whelp," the paladin said stonily, drawing one knee up under her chin and draping her arms around it.
"I can only wonder which you're mourning, Danashj: that you left Derenel for Ishbaneer, or that you left Ishbaneer for Derenel."
"Isaac," she corrected. "His name is Isaac."
"Not since he died," the dragon smirked cruelly. "Here's what I don't understand. You bargained a debt of servitude: his lifetime. A lifetime in our service equal to the number of years he would live. Derenel took on that debt, and then you completely disregard his sacrifice in leaving the poor boy we were supposed to be helping."
"Here's what I don't understand, Ralistrasza," the elf sighed. "Why meddle in mortal affairs?"
"It amuses me," the girl replied, tossing her hair. "Despite what you think, though, I didn't plan for you to fall in love with the boy. Derenel was my servant, and I don't like him thinking himself beholden to another."
"I didn't plan it either."
"And I didn't send the rogue to you."
"I never said you did."
"And we had an agreement."
"Aeliristrasz and I did, yes," Aurelia nodded.
"And Derenel took on your debt."
"I don't understand why I didn't have any say in that."
"And it wasn't my idea for you to sleep with him," the girl went on, and the elf rolled her eyes.
"And what's your point, Ralistrasza?"
"And I didn't kill him."
"Didn't kill whom?"
"Derenel."