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I am the devil in disguise, for I bring the evil to your lies. Listen, listen ... listen what I say, my name is ... Morgan Fay.
'My love, why have you come? You should not be here.'
'Delia ... is that you? Is it really you? ... I had to come; you surely must know this. We were always meant to be, you and I ... I am no good on my own. You wanted me to come and find you, right?'
'Go ... go now ... you should not be here.'
'What? Why? Delia, what is wrong?'
'Quickly now, find the door and go back through it. Once you do that, promise me you will never come back. You need to forget all about that door and all which is on this side of it, including me.'
'I am not going to leave you.'
'You must leave. Don't question this. Trust me and please understand.'
'Understand what?'
Finding Delia is one thing but this, whatever it is that is happening, is definitely not what Samuel expected. He wants answers of course but before he can even attempt to get any, she is gone, gone again, gone back within the darkness. Maybe she doesn't want to be found. What is wrong with her? Something is not right.
Maybe she only showed herself to bring things to somewhat of an end. No, that cannot be it. Is what she is doing something being forced upon her? Does she believe that by sending Samuel away, she is somehow saving him? Whatever is happening, there can be no end between these two, at least not one like this, and she must surely know this. What the hell is going on? Samuel has not come this far just to go back now.
He could never again live with himself if he were to return home at this point. No, now is simply not the time to simply give up. Where is Delia? Where did she go? Without Delia there is no home to return to. Indeed, what the hell is going on?
With all that has come up to this point, Samuel has to believe he has been here before so if passing back through that door, back to his own world, he can only assume he will begin to forget again, only now, if he were to forget this world ... would he also begin to forget Delia? If such a thing is possible, he cannot allow it to happen ...
I found her, well kinda and she wants me to just go away, go back home? I cannot do that, especially with not knowing why. She must know I will not leave, not without getting a why and not without her.
***
That first morning of the honeymoon and having left the stone building on a stone island, a rainfall has Samuel and Delia scurrying towards the first building they see. What exactly they were to do upon arriving at such a building had not been thought out. They couldn't just simply ask for shelter from the rain if indeed there is anyone around to ask at all, or maybe they could. That choice however did not need to be made.
There is someone around. How convenient? ... or not. That first building they come to just so happens to belong to an older lady and 'the just so happens' is a very convenient thing. This older lady has her front door open, and she is quick to welcome a couple of guests.
'Oh, dearie me my lovelies, come on in here and out of that horrid weather.'
'Thank you very much madam' speaks Samuel speaking to that welcoming lady as he heads into the home after Delia does, 'I don't know what my lovely wife and I would have done if we weren't so close to someone as nice as you.'
'Oh lovie, we are all nice around here, and you don't even need to get to know us to find that out. Oh, and call me Maisy. I have a nice hot broth at the ready, neither of you two young 'uns are going anywhere until you have had some.'
