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21
August 2014
The
Time Keeper
Deep
in a heavily wooded forest was a cave. The cave was beautifully scary
with ivy growing all around it. The ivy was dotted with tiny deep
purple flowers but it led to an entrance that was black as night.
Even the animals stayed away from the cave. Folklore told a tale of
the Time Keeper, the being that took any form you imagined when you
walk in the cave. The Time Keeper bargained with people but always
for a price. Time was valuable. You cannot be given time without
giving time but many are all too desperate to get back a slice of
their time back. Rose was one of those desperate souls. Her heart was
always missing something, words she had not said lead to moments she
never got with the one she loved. If only she had stopped to tell him
she loved him then he would not have gotten on that ship and died at
sea. Rose traveled many miles, beyond the great plains and trekking
over the great mountains until she reached the edge of the forest.
With a deep breath she slowly walked into the Time Keeper's cave.
“Hello?
Time Keeper? Please I need your help,” whispered Rose as she walked
through the dark, cool cave.
“My
sweet, lovely child! Time is what you are here for and time is what I
have for you but you cannot walk away with the time I give you alone.
You must pay me you pretty thing,” spoke the Time Keeper. Appearing
as the most beautiful woman Rose has ever seen", she had long,
blonde hair that flowed all the way to the ground. Her eyes were as
green as the Irish countryside. Her skin was as pale as the moon and
her dress was a light, glittering blue as if the sky had dressed her
itself. She made Rose feel so welcomed and comfortable with her
glowing gaze and honeyed voice, “Darling dear, are you now
prepared to tell me what you need from me and pay the price for your
prize?”
“I
just need one minute. Just one. I did not stop him. I needed to tell
him I love him. He needed to hear him say those words and I didn't
say them. I was afraid, I was worried he wouldn't reciprocate. I let
him leave and the last look he gave me told me I was wrong for not
saying anything but goodbye. He died and I could have saved him.
Please, I just need that minute back to tell him,” begged Rose.
“You
poor thing. A love lost is always a hard thing to hold onto. You see
time back for losing your love has the heaviest price,” hummed the
Time Keeper. With a flick of her hand she produced a locket in the
shape of a heart. It was a beating heart that thudded as if it were
fresh from a chest, “Take this precious one and go back to where
you last saw your love. Whisper his name into this locket until it
turns bright red and he will come to you. Just remember you pay for
time with time and time taken for a lost love requires more from you.
Do you still want this?”
Rose
took a minute to think but she knew she had to at least tell him she
loved him. She shook her head yes and held out her hands for the
locket, “thank you Time Keeper.”
“Go
my darling and find your love,” the Time Keeper disappeared and
Rose was alone in the cave. Immediately she took off for the long
journey to the sea where her love left. She pulled out the locket
from around her neck and whispered his name into it.
“Lucas.
Lucas. Lucas. Lucas. Lucas...” on the fifth one she heard a
sound in the water. Suddenly there was a gasp for air and he was
there, pulling himself up to his feet and onto the shore, “Lucas!
You're here! It worked!” She ran up to him and embraced him.
“Rose!
How am I here? I was sure I was dead but I was pulled away and
brought back here,” he said in amazement.
“That
is no matter. I love you Lucas. I have always loved you and I should
have stopped you and said it to keep you here so you wouldn't die but
you are here now! My love, my sweet Lucas,” Rose could not believe
her eyes.
“Oh
Rose, I...uh... I don't know what to say. Thank you, Rose but I do
not love you,” he stuttered.
“But
that day, you looked at me. You looked like you wanted to stay,”
Rose was hurt and confused.
“I
was looking at everyone. I should have told you I wanted to go home.
There was a girl back home that my parents had introduced to me
through letters. I fell in love with her and was going home to marry
her. I looked at you and everything around you because I was going to
miss this temporary life I had made here. I am so sorry Rose,” he
apologized to her and kissed her on the forehead, “I am sorry Rose.
Thank you for being here, I should go.”
Rose
was shattered. Her heart was absolutely broken. She looked at the
locket and it was completely black now. She cried on the beach for
hours before she realized that she was getting weak. She decided to
return to the Time Keeper's cave.
“Time
Keeper, what is happening to me?” she cried out.
“My
sweet darling, it did not work did it?” whispered the Time Keeper,
“Child you pay with time from your life. With time given for love
if you do not get your love back and your heart is broken then your
payment comes quicker. My sweet child your heart is weakening by the
second.”
“I
loved him so much and he did not love me. I gave him my heart and now
I have lost everything,” cried Rose as the Time Keeper cradled her
weakening body.
“You
must pay for your time my dear, I am so sorry,” with that Rose was
gone and so was the Time Keeper. All that was left was Rose's lone
body still clutching the locket of her unrequited love. Eventually
she turned to ash, joining the ashes of previous unloved souls in the
Time Keeper's cave.
22
August 2014
The
Not So Ordinary Day
It
was never going to be an ordinary day. Jill woke up and the
everything seemed different. The sun was brighter, her vision was
clearer, she could smell the dogs outside and the cars outside seemed
louder. Besides a splitting headache, nothing looked out of the
ordinary. Jill stood up, shook it off and hopped in the shower. Even
the shower wasn't as usual. She could not get the temperature to be
the exact level of warm. After she was up and ready, Jill sat at her
table drinking her coffee when she heard a noise behind her.
“We
picked you to be different and you are just going to sit here
drinking coffee?” exclaimed a man's voice from behind her.
“How
the hell did you get inside of my house?” yelled Jill as she jumped
up from the table, grabbing her coffee with lightening speed before
it could spill.
“Calm
down. I am not here to help you. You have always showed potential to
be better and so we decided to give you the abilities to be better.
We ask that you use this for good. You see we have done this for
others and they tried to be good but a darkness in all of us got the
better of them. We have been vetting you for quite some time and have
faith that you are a person of good virtue,” explained the man.
“What
are you talking about? Who are you? Who decided to 'give' me
abilities?” Jill was so confused. She knew the day was different
than usual but this was just crazy.
“We,
the people in charge of that decision, gave you the abilities. You
will notice some slight differences over the next couple days but you
will grasp them and once you do you must go out in the world and find
people who need help. Little help, big help, help of any kind. We
need to bring some goodness to the world and you get to do that. Now
I have explained as much as I am allowed and you must figure this out
on your own. Good luck and please don't disappoint us or we will have
to eliminate you.”
Jill
was about to say more but the man was gone. He hadn't left out the
door, Jill would have heard that. She sat there for a minute
contemplating what her life meant now and deciding whether or not
this was a joke. She sipped her coffee and suddenly felt a smack on
her head.
“I
said get to it!”
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