BOOK 1 of the GREENSPIRED Series
(concept is based on the story of Orpheus and Eurydice)
Chase Roldevon, the outgoing and adventurous and a self-proclaimed art prodigy type of guy. Lionel Everheart, the timid and typical loner. The two cross paths a...
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Orpheus and Eurydice
painting by: Frederic Leighton
Long, long, ago there was a lad with a gifted ability for music. Orpheus was his name, the son of Apollo and Calliope, a muse. He had a talent for the instrument, a lyre and played inspirational music. The tones and tunes were not only soothing but it was mellow and soft that it could tame the wildest beasts.
Eurydice, his beloved love and wife, died when she was young after being bitten by a snake and immediately died . Devastated, Orpheus traveled to the Underworld and pleaded to Hades, who was the God of the Underworld, to allow his wife to come back to life; back to Earth with him. His cries were accompanied by his magical lyre and proved to Hades how much she meant for him.
Hades, feeling remorseful, allowed his wife to be set free, but on one condition. Orpheus was allowed to go back on Earth with Eurydice, as long as he doesn't look back when still in the Underworld.
A step away before finally leaving the Underworld, curiosity got the best of Orpheus as he felt Eurydice was behind him. To see if his love was still actually there, he took a glance and saw his wife mouthing the words, "goodbye..."
Realizing what had happened, if only had he waited a few more seconds. Now, the love of his life was now forever lost in the land of life after death.
Chase bit back a slight yawn as his literature professor kept rambling about the tragic story; one of many he had listened to this day. He had an unclear resentment towards Orpheus from the start.
If only he had waited a second or two, he probably would have saved her ass. Chase bitterly thought.
His slender fingers met his brown locks intertwining with each other as he kept curling the ends of his hair strands, bored out of his mind as his class kept wandering around the art museum in their school grounds.
Maximillian Academy for Studio and Performing Arts, one of the prestigious academies that offered courses that surround arts and designs. Their school campus comes with well-equipped laboratories, livable dormitories and an art museum for art references and exact replicas of such masterpieces around the world for further research and appreciation purposes.
