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04-20-2014, 02:19 PM
MERMAID
AND WE DANCED LIKE A WAVE ON THE OCEAN, ROMANCED
WE WERE LIARS IN LOVE AND WE DANCED
Her laughter is less hearty this time. I seem to be damaging her goodnatured enthusiasm with my overbearing optimism. Noting this I decide to make the attempt at curbing that optimism, at least a little, in her presence. It is curious to me though, what shadows lurk behind this young woman’s sunny smile? Another mystery… I add it to my list.
I gloss over my own historical troubles, diminishing the significance of “divine expulsion” with my comments about being an alien. This seems to restore her earlier gleeful mood quickly enough. Faneing a look of intent consideration I stretch my nose out to sniff her.
“No, I do not think you smell quite green enough for me to want a taste. Apparently being alien has not altered my prefered diet any.”
Again her smiles fade, this time in response to my questions about her origins. I do not seem to be reading this girl very well… I truly did not mean to upset her. Listening with sympathy to her wistful memories I realize that the wrongs she has suffered and the separations she has lived through, while no worse than my own really, are new and fresh in her mind yet. I want to tell her that things will get better, that the hurt will fade with time but I do not. While this would be true enough, in order to be completely truthful I would have to add that while it will fade it may not go away entirely. Somehow I doubt that truth will help her much.
“Well, you are looking at one now. I had power once. Nothing terribly strong, but it was there and I have certainly felt the absence since coming to this place.”
She offers no insight to the above ground world of Helovia, perhaps she did not see much more than I before being ushered to these caves. That is a pity, but I do not press her. It seems she no longer wishes to remain in my presence. Ah well, as she says it is getting late.
“I ought to attempt the same I suppose. Pleased to have met you Elsa, I will watch for you under the sun.”
A meeting in the future would be pleasant and now I have some idea what topics I should not mention to her. That said I too turn my back and proceed in the opposite direction.
SWEPT AWAY FOR A MOMENT BY CHANCE
@[Elsa] - just in case you want to read my belated ending. Thanks for the thread!
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