Worlds of Cray: Lami Nye Si Heart

Chapter 4: The First Time

I have met several ladies with Eve as their given name, of varied personality, face, race, interests and life span. Not all are memorable and I bet I will forget about Eve Queen sooner or later, after all, I've only met her for two days. Moreover, not all of them are the Eve I loved, most of them just happened to have the same given name. Yet, even if in every generation of Eve is unique, I can recognize her with just a glance on her eyes.

I still remember the first time I met someone who possessed the same soul as my beloved Eve Alldy, it was 1097 BC:

On the 4th watch of the day of harvest, when I was on my way to Egypt, I took a hilly path and encountered a young lady roaming the hills of Mizpah. She's very beautiful – long black hair, shiny forehead, pretty piercing eyes, rosy cheeks, pointy nose, narrow lips, free-earlobes, fair tan skin, slender body, blessed bosoms , big hips, and about 5'5" in height. I was astonished that I just stared at her eyes, as she approach me until she passed through me. I was mesmerized by how unfamiliar her beautiful face is but at the same time how I must have felt her presence before, somewhere, or maybe in a different time or maybe in a different realm? Must be deja senti.

So I turned around and followed her. "How come she's alone in this dangerous place at this time of the day?" I pondered. Then I saw a group of three drunk men littering along the path we're taking – smells like trouble. One of them approach her, ranting and walking in a zigzag manner. Without any warning, he grabbed her hand and he got thrown, wait, he got thrown? Oh my, this young lady is strong. The other two came at her but both of them were also taken out. She took her knife out from her foot and the three men run for their life. She continued walking as if nothing happened.

She finally stopped walking and, in front of a big stone, knelt and wept. I took the courage to show myself. I turned off my dematerialization bracelet and I asked her "Why are you crying?"

She jumped back away from me then she change her stance to defensive with her knife pointing at me, "Who are you?" she shouted and hastily wiped her tears.

"I'm sorry if I scared you, I come in peace, I am Cray Alldy. May I also know your name?"

"You look suspicious, you are wearing clothes I have never seen in my entire life and the way you speak, I have never heard anyone speak that way. Your hair is like the sky, are you a foreigner? Why should I trust you?"

"Yes I am and you're right, you shouldn't. But let me have your name so I may address you properly." I answered with a straight face.

She stared for about a minute and then she put her knife back to his foot. "Well, there's only quite few men who can overpower me. So don't try anything." She said with so much confident. "I'm Eve, the only daughter of Jephthah the Gileadites".

I was shocked when I heard of her name. How can this be? She's given the same name as my beloved Eve and I felt something about her akin to how I felt about Eve Alldy. Then I stared at her eyes again, carefully searching for clues on every detail of it.  But I found nothing of comparable characteristics of Eve Alldy.

"Why were you crying a while ago?" I asked again.

"See that stone?", while pointing at the big stone on my right.

"Yes"

"That is where my late mother is buried."

"I see now. You are grieving."

We kept on talking, trying to know each other, she told me how much she misses her mother. I cheered her up with stories of my journey. Then suddenly...

"How old are you?" she asked.

I was startled as it is the most awkward question for me to answer but I were able to answer quickly with a question "Tell me yours first. How old are you?"

"I'm only 16"

"Wow! You look much older than your years. Not in a bad way though, I mean you look great, or should I say you look more lady-like than a 16-year old girl"

"Quit flattering me, now it's your turn."

"Actually, I don't know, I lost count I guess or should I say I was born in a place where there was no concept of time, day, or years. But I assure you I'm older than your father".

"Oh my, you look young for your age." she said sarcastically.

We laugh at the thought then suddenly, someone called out to her, she turned around and I quickly dematerialized myself whispering "See you some other time Eve."