
Author’s note: I wrote this scene for a specific story and then didn’t use it. It seemed a pity to waste it, so I hope you like it.
Richard
I came upon her quite by accident. She cowered beneath the boughs of a cherry blossom tree, one of which I presumed had disgorged its petals on her shivering self. She was one mass of light pink.
“Hello,” I said, then rolled my eyes at such predictability. I’d never been good with the ladies. If any of my friends had accompanied me, they would’ve charmed her with some wonderful opening line. I envied them often, but was glad of their absence this day.
If the enveloped girl heard me, she did not show it. She never even raised her eyes, her shivering intensifying.
“There’s no need to be afraid,” I tried. Still nothing.
I might have walked on by and left her to it, but it just wasn’t me. Her desperation called, and I answered.
I walked softly over to her, the grass lush and damp under my feet. Afraid that if I touched her she might scream, instead, I crouched beside her and whispered, “You don’t have to be afraid any more.”
I don’t know why I said it, nor why it moved her, but it did. The girl stirred, her second skin of pearlescent nature shimmering.
When she stood, her eyes agleam in gold, I realised why she hadn’t dared stir; the petals that buried her fell away as feathers, and she shone even more.
“I am fallen,” she breathed from everywhere and nowhere. “Help me. Show me the way home.”
Wow..
Thanks, Dorinda. 🙂
Welcome 🙂
Oh Richard, this is so beautiful, so tender, so sad. You do that so well!!!
Thank you, Morgan. I’m glad I didn’t bin it now. 🙂
OH so am I! Never bin before checking with me first 😉 LOL
Yes, miss. 😎
Good Lad 😉
VERY beautiful the bin would have ignored your request and thrown it back at you had you tried!
I don’t know! There’s plenty in there.
PS Happy Weekend, almost 👍
Happy weekend-almost man of the moor
🤔☕
Oh, wow. Amazing.
Thank you kindly. 🙂
There is more of this story begging to be told..
There nearly wasn’t that!!!!
Haha… I enjoyed this morsel very much.
Thank you, sir. 😎☕
My pleasure, maestro 😎
Fantastic, Richard. This is mesmerizing. I love the reveal.
That’s very kind. I’m really pleased I posted it now. 🙂
Richard, this is a sharp and penetrating vignette. Assuming it came from your heart, I would have always trusted you with my sisters, and after this story, I would even trust you with my daughters. Slainte.
You’ve left me speechless in a good way. 🙂
Beautiful…thank that little voice in your head, for me. It truly would be sad, if you did had thrown it away.
XxX
Aww, that’s sweet of you. 🙂
Nice photo!!!
Thanks. It’s from Pixabay but just seemed right.
I agree with all of the above 🙂
Thank you.