Can Divit : "Erkenci Kus"/Early Bird

Can Divit, May 2019: "The Essence of Her : Part 4"

Author's Note: This Story is told in 4 Parts. This is Part 4 of 4.

Please read Part 1, 2 & 3 before reading this part and the links are the top comment.

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Within days, in her own words of "evil does not affect her".....  she's back to being her beautiful and bashful self!

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I tell her when she's ready to talk, I'd like to hear about what happened to her that day!  To me, the fact that she was kidnapped from our home, is unfathomable.... yet I have to face the horrible reality that it, in fact, happened!  I'm afraid that Sanem may have post traumatic stress and it may be triggered by spots in the house!

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My girl has not asked me for anything, only my body, mind, spirit and soul... which I've willingly, irrevocably and happily given away to her!   We are living in my dad's place and it's been a good house.... but in retrospect, it is maybe not a great home! Yes, we've had some spectacular moments and experiences but equally awful ones in the past and present!

So, it's time to man up and make the first big decision of our life together : buying our home! I tell her the idea at breakfast, and the fact that she doesn't reject it, tells me I'm on the right track!   We both consider the possibility of moving into our mountain hut. It's a great getaway spot..... but I know that it's too remote for her.  We need to be around friends and family, basking in mutual love and care! 

I've lived like a nomad and a traveler for so so so long... and for the first time in my life, I want to put down roots, grow a fruitful tree, have a metaphorical and actual table under it for the gathering of family, friends... and children! When we fly... we fly together like the Albatross', hand in hand, and she is my mountain, desert, ocean and universe!

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Off we go house hunting! She likes homes with character and sentimental values, and naturally we go shopping for historic homes that have a story.  Her lovely romanticism manifests itself in how she enters a place and tries to sense its energy.... and mine in sensing hers! When she asks me what I like, I tell her home is where she is..... the rest is all immaterial details to me!

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We've been looking for a while,  knowing we have very discernible tastes, and still can't find a place to call our own! Inspiration hits me when we are visiting Anne-Hanim and Baba-Bey.... that's what I call them now, and that's what they are to me!

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I take her on a ride around Istanbul, we stop and reflect at street corners, hilltops, and spots with gorgeous views of the city..... and I ask her what's missing. She can't quite articulate, even for her eidetic mind, or maybe she doesn't want to impose upon me, that's it!

I drive her back to the mahalle and tell her this place has everything I need, want, care, covet and cherish in life... it's the best of all worlds, home in the mahalle, work in the city and a getaway to our mountain hut! Wordless, her answering smile is glowing and so angelic that it stuns me and my heart skips a few beats!

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Within a few hours, we find a gorgeous yet dilapidated property in the Ottoman-Turk chalet style.  I can sense that she's in love with it as soon as she enters it... me too, this time... love at first sight!