A Chance at Magic

In the Valley

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I had made it. I made it all the way to the hidden Valley Of The Moon. I had lived and survived and fought my way to this valley to find the ingredient to save my father and the rest of the tribe that coincidentally hated me. If you had asked me a few days ago I would tell you that as soon as I got here I would want to fall to my knees and kiss the ground.

That was no longer the case. When I realized where I was I fell to my knees and began to sob. I had made it all this way to save my tribe but I had lost the one person I never wanted to imagine loosing. I did not have Yinlel with me anymore. I loved him, but was unable to save him. I set Yelix down then curled into a ball and hugged my knees sobbing. He was gone… I may never see him again.

“Yinlel? Can you hear me?! are you ok??! Please say yes. Yinlel please… PLEASE be ok!”  I cried to him in mind speak just praying for an answer.

There was no answer.

“ I love you” I sobbed as I thought to him.

I don’t know how long I laid there wallowing in pity and sorrow. It had felt like half of myself had been taken away and was slowly being tortured. I drifted in and out of sleep.

I was finally woken by Yelix and his crying. My eyes were raw and sore from crying and I still felt like curling into a ball and forgetting the world but Yelix needed me and I could not let the small baby down now. Not after we had all been through so much.  I tried to quiet him and reached into the bag that had been torn a bit to find there was only one bottle left for him. I fed him and hoped that when we found the stones there would be something to get us home or we would both starve before we made it back with the stones. I finally got him to quiet down and he stayed in an in between state where he was tired but not quite asleep.

He was what was keeping me from giving up now. I ran my finger along his soft and smooth cheek as his tiny golden eyes began to droop. I brushed his now long light green hair out of his face, I had learned long ago from Mrs. Taflin that humans were the only ones who could not see the true color of some of our hair. My hair being brown would seem brown to anyone, except my hair was a special shade of brown that was quite difficult to describe to someone who couldn’t see it. The color was said to be beautiful, people claimed you could see a hint of every color in it.  My mother’s hair was the same way and everyone always commented on how beautiful and enchanting it was but no one every paid any mind to the fact mine was the same color. Being ignored was something I was used to.

I sang softly to Yelix as he drifted off to sleep.  Soon the flowers around me joined me with a hum creating a growing harmony to my soft gentle song. Soon we were surrounded by the tangible calm of the Kinian Lullaby. Yelix fell asleep listening to it. I hugged him close and whispered to him.

“I will not give up on you little Yelixy. You will live, I promise. We are almost there little one. I love you.” I kissed him on the head and fell asleep on my own dreaming that I was in Yinlel’s arms.

I was about at the point where I was tired of dreams but that did not stop them from coming. They did not seem to care if I welcomed them or not.

I was by the pond near my house I could hear Yinlel’s soft , smooth , and beautiful voice singing to me. I smiled and stood up looking around for him.

“Yinlel where are you?” I asked laughing and looking around. His voice seemed to change the direction it was coming from.

“Yinlel come here! Pleeeeeaaaaassssseeeee?” I begged him and looked behind a tree.