SELENE EIN 👁 🌙

GARDEN LEYLA

"This is some kind of a prank right?" Ein prompted .

They were looking down transfixed at a point.

"I need to sort my thoughts " Ein got up from her seat and walked out . She can't bear to cry in front of her parents, they were calling her to come back. She wandered through the streets tears streaking through her face, blurring her vision.

Is is true? Was she the daughter of Selene and not theirs? How badly she yearned for the ground to gobble her up right now. She broke down on the street receiving stares and laughs. How pathetic must she look in their eyes? can't they stop staring? How hard it must be for a person who has no one to lean on. She ran from their stares and clashed into a passerby

"watch where you -" the lady stopped mid-sentence. was it because she was crying? She rushed without waiting to know the reason, it was too suffocating for her there. The world felt so unfamiliar. She wanted to lean on someone badly right now.

"Ein?" a voice inquired.

She hoisted her head, Aze was standing before her like an angel sent by God answering her prayer. She gazed at him with her sorrow-filled eyes. He came closer and hugged her as if he had read her mind. She cried out her heart on his shoulder. Everyone must be starting at them. He stroked her head comforting her.When she had calmed down a little he released her and took her hand directing towards his car.

She felt safe with him somehow. They got into the car. She didn't ask where they were going neither did he about why she was crying.She stared out the window deep in thought,he was silent not interrupting her.

He parked his car and moved towards Ein's side opened her door,extended his hand for her. She held it ,staring down not ready to face him after her breakdown and pursued him silently .After a few minutes he halted.

She looked up confused. Her eyes widened at the scenery in front of her, it was the prettiest garden she has ever seen , all theflowers were pure white with a magical glow to them.somehow the sight cheered her up instantly.

She moved around the garden soaking up it's beauty. A large statue at the core caught her attention pulling her towards it. She studied the statue closely.A lady and a man in their twenties, her arms around his neck and his resting on her waist staring at eachother with so much affection .This statue must be depicting love thought Ein.

Time had withered their faces. Her eyes detected something on the lady's neck, it was a chain identical to the one on her neck. Unknowingly she felt her hand extend towards the statue and caress it, her fingers halted on something coated with moss. She looked around to ask Aze if it was okay to scrub the moss off. But he was at the other end. Her curiosity got better of her and she began scrubbing the moss off.

Caelum and Elara
Their compassion is the reason we are alive today. Let their souls be endowed with the highest in heaven .

The rest of the passage was written in irkumze. An inner urge made her touch their name, at the moment her fingers touched it several things transpired together. A shock transferred to her fingers from the statue. She shut her eyes in pain, an image of a woman turned away from her and a man playing with their baby in a cradle materialised .the lady laughed at some joke the man was saying. Ein moved closer to get a glimpse of the women and the baby . 'puff'. The image vanished as fast as it came leaving Ein standing there aghast.

Her heart started to pain, the same piercing pain at the infirmary with Aze. She had tears in her eyes. What were these all about? Was it a dream?

"Ein are you okay?" Aze had moved closer to her. She was still holding her hand that got the shock, she released it and acted cool.

"yh just......no don't touch that" she screamed suddenly as Aze had extended his hands to touch those names. He raised his eyebrows questioning.

"it's just slippery and wet." Ein murmured straightening her expression.

Aze nodded taking his hands back.

"Who are they?" Ein asked.

" you must have read the book of aura right?" Aze questioned. She nodded.

"they were the Selene princess and cloud prince, Caelum and Elara. After they escaped from the cloud king, they lived in hiding here and gave birth to their daughter here"
"after their death, the place was converted to Leyla garden. Myth says that this garden will take all your sorrows away" Aze explained.

He bought her here so that she won't be sad? aww ,though it was cheesy she felt happy. The myth must be true she had forgotten all about the fiasco with her parents even if it was for a short time . He headed towards something giving off a white glow.

She looked once again at the statue , it felt like they were alive and staring at her. She quickly followed Aze.

"wow," she whispered.

It was a river made of clouds. White and puffy. Was she in heaven? She settled there with her leg in the stream. It was not wet but felt like water flowing. Aze sat near to her. They both started randomly talking about the riddle and what was its answer. This place feels so familiar and painful thought Ein.

"I don't know why but this place had always felt oddly familiar some time painful to me" Aze mumbled as if to himself.

"Woah do you read minds too? or do we have a telepathic connection. Please don't say you could read my mind" she let out.

"haha, you were thinking the same? As for your information, we don't have such powers.so it must be a mutual feeling for anyone who comes here" Aze said

"yeah maybe," Ein thought.

Why was he not asking why she had cried? Is he waiting for her to say? Anyway, everyone will know one day.

"what if I told you Aze, I am the daughter of Selene Olea?" She enquired.

"I guessed as much. so that's why you were crying today?" he mumbled.

"what? Why do you act like you already knew" Ein questioned.

He smiled. As he didn't elaborate further Ein began to describe what happened with her parents.

"that's why the Daturas were acting that way ,after we left the synod I had studied about the necklace. It is worn only by the Selenes" he said.

"I was expecting a more wild reaction" mumbled Ein.

He chuckled at this.

She thought about the image that flashed through her head. Even though she couldn't see the faces of the women and the baby, she felt that the man looked like Aze. Was he secretly married maybe and the statue has the power to show you concealed truth? No way her mind was running with her stupid ideas.

It might be that her head was filled with Aze these days.