The Heavens Gift

A girl who had magic hands that created life itself, began to grow lonely after her father passed away to join his lover in the afterlife. Elizabeth, named after her mother who died giving birth, wished upon the moon to give her someone to love in exchange for her eternal life. With nothing but thankfulness towards the girl, the moon agreed therefore blessing her one last time with a soulmate.

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That was when she wished for one thing in her eternal life. Elizabeth went away to her wishful home of the pond and kneeled down to the Earth. That night under the shining moon and speckled stars, she wished for someone she could love as everyone she had was now gone. In return the moon asked what she would give in exchange. With some thinking of what she could give she came to a conclusion. Her head glanced up at the moon and with clasped hands she said,

"I will give my eternal life for you to make a person that I can cherish. Please sweet moon," she wept on, "I can no longer go on with this loneliness, I will happily grow old with them and ascend to the afterlife with them in my arms."

Smiling back at the girl who had done no wrong doing in her life. The moon could only thank her and agreed on the terms.

"You will be gifted a love that will stay with you until the end of your well earned life."

That was how I was born.