Ransom of Tears

I gently uttered a few words beneath my breath as I fell on the floor. The beautiful shining wings of the creature captured me into its mystery and promises. Before I could stand, the creature glanced over to me in such a manner that made me gasp. Is it really looking at me? How am I to respond?

With slow and delicate strides the creature came upon me, flapping its enormous wings. Gorgeous and all glory. And it spoke.

"The Angels awakened and dressed to come for the great white whale. " With a low and bold voice, the creature kidnapped me of my thoughts. "Come."

"Who is the great white whale?"The creature didn't answer. I noticed that though the creature was unexplainably exquisite with shimmering eyes and glowing hair, it did not have ears.

It turned to me and lured me into its gleaming yellow eyes. I had an urge to reach out and touch it; my eyes paralyzed at its strange allure. Startled when it spoke again with such a powerful voice, I stumbled back.“My heart sits beneath my chest in a wretched box full of chains. Only until I find the river of tears and the white snow that holds the whale prisoner can I escape from this restraint.”

“What do you mean?” I managed to ask. But as the creature abruptly turned to me with agony in its eyes, I suddenly regret asking. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to know, scared for the truth of the sacred secrets inside of the creature.

In silent and slow steps, I realized that I was no longer on ground. I was walking across a vast green body of water. Water?The creature swiftly moved across with its wings barely touching the water. “Stare not into your own reflection for it may hold a truth stronger than you can bear.” Scared and trusting what it said, I shut my lids closed. I nervously walked on with the little hope I had left that all that was happening now was only a dream.

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