A Fairy Tale

Part 2

November 24^th, 2019

Time passed again and the two of them shared their lives in their own way.

That is they were flying over the seas and the lakes, over the woods and the mountains.

Side by side.

 They enjoyed the beauty of the world. They could only see that!

But as seasons passed she could see clouds passing over his eyes. 

She could feel his soul was tormented.

 He never said anything. Not good with words. 

However, she knew.

 She always knew the truth but kept silence. Silence as magic.

Darker times came and he became ill.

Anxiety all over his mind!

His soul became heavy and couldn’t fly with her. 

He pulled her down to his woods. 

It was dark there.

 The thought came like lightning. 

Then she knew what she had to do.

Let him go back to the depths of his lake. 

To his kingdom. 

His life. 

And find peace again.

 His routine.

 Security of his previous life. 

That’s what he needed.

 She knew he would never make the decision by himself.

So she waited. 

Thought again and again.

Happy when they were together, sad when she didn’t know where he was.

Then one day, winter came.

 Up in the North. 

The God of the lake became more anxious and unsatisfied. 

He became desperate!

Then the rains started.

 And more rains. 

Cold rains.

And the winds. 

Also cold.

Finally when the snow came, the lake froze.

The God got trapped in it.

At first he was sad. Very sad. 

But soon he went back to his everyday life and felt calm. 

Secure. 

Safe. 

He was able to control his life again!

The sea in the south, however, did not freeze. It was still warm and sunny down there. The goddess kept coming out of the depths. 

More often now.

 Almost every night. 

The nights with the full moon, the nights with the half moon or when it was like a slice of melon. 

Also the nights when it vanished into the vast universe. Those nights were dark! She came out, sitting on the beach.

Alone.

No songs.

 Only the stars, millions of them. 

She didn’t cry.

She felt she had made the right thing. 

It had to be done like this.

After that, only the memories lived.

The God of the lake and the Goddess of the sea were lost in the black Universe of Time.