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Solace
Part 3 of 3
Liz drew herself up and out of bed, still the dream flowed through her a blend of ecstasy, fulfillment, and wonder, culminating a feeling of floating in the empyrean. She wrapped herself in the old quit and stepped over to the balcony doors, pulling them open, she went outside to face the brisk air and the radiance of the sun. The woods were silent, stillness was evident, soon she began to hear the faint noise of a woodpecker in the distance, and the meadowlark making his morning call. The woodland creatures were just beginning to stir, she saw in the far side, near the lake deer coming to take a morning drink. Liz sighed, this was what she had missed in the big city; she could feel the magic in the air, the sparkle. That magic took in all of the forest, the fragrance of the trees, the mournful cry of the loon, the crisp air, and cold waters, they all had an effect on her, drawing her in, beckoning her to stay; enchanting her with their simplistic charms.
A sudden gust of wind blew in from the west; Liz noticed something unusual, she took a deep breath and then took another whiff of the air. She swore she had smelled his cologne, that scent everyday she woke to, intoxicating her, drowning her in emotion. It was the pure essence of him, the forest; the dew in the morning, the rain in the afternoon and woodland rivers rushing down hill all combined with an earthy aroma. That was it she thought, his scent was of this place, he smelled like Solace.
So wrapped up in these supernatural sensation, these odd strange emotions, she failed to notice across the side of the lake, to the west, a cabin with a man standing on the balcony, just like her, staring off into space. Then suddenly her cell phone rang as she went inside to answer it, finding a dear and close friend of hers from the city on the other end, Maria Deluca, a hot new up and coming rock star and in a strange way related to her through an uncle and his third wife.
"Did I wake you hon?"
"No it is early here but for some reason I enjoy the sunrise."
They talked about what was going on in the city, the party the night before, all the celebrities and the gossip that was running rampant. Liz laughed as she dressed in between bits and pieces of her city life. Then Maria asked the question that always came at some point "Did you have the dream again?"
Liz was quiet for a while, she had thought returning here to Solace, the dreams would stop, but no they were intensified. Finally out of the blue she asked: "Am I losing my mind Maria?"
"No hon, you are perfectly sane."
"Then tell me what does it mean when I hear him, I feel him. Voices? Hallucinations? I am insane."
"Hon they are but dreams. Figments of your fertile imagination. Maybe he is real, from another life."
Liz sighed deeply as she hung up, life was the pits and she was the center of the pit. Grabbing a morning coffee she walked back out to the balcony, she watched a deer gracefully jump a fallen log just a few hundred feet away. "Why did the animals always seem so relaxed here?" Liz remembered asking her grandma years ago, that very question. She could still see her grandma smile and said the maintain fairies took kindly to animals and people who lived amidst them and would do most anything to make sure they were happy. She then told Liz of how she and grandpa had met, down by the lake, an accident. Grandma always insisted the fairies sent him a careening into her, so they would fall in love and marry.
"Why was it heroines in those romance novels were always so sure of themselves, they knew who and what the guys wanted." She shook her head, why did she not understand like them, she could not figure out her life so easily. He had to be a figment just as Maria said a dream. The man did not really exist, he could not exist. She out on her shoes and decided to go for a walk, maybe walk in the cold water to snap some sense into her head.
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Max could not put that thought out of his mind: a car was in that driveway. Maybe he could just wander over and say hi, introduce himself to the people there. After spending more time hemming and hawing, Max grabbed his leather coat and hauled ass down the hill. The fog was still heavy, lying close to the ground, he had to slow down before he went off the path and got lost, which was amazingly not hard to do for a city boy. As he got closer, he swore he smell her perfume, flowers and sex, all rolled into a tantalizing scent. He sped up, jumping over rocks and ruts. The fog began to break as he saw the lake just head, one more bend and the house would be within reach of him.
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Neither of them saw the other one until they ran head long into each other. Liz went sprawling onto the sand, her hands and knees hitting hard. Max went backwards, landing on his butt. He immediately jumped up embarrassed as he mumbled apologies to her, trying to help her stand. As Liz rose and threw back her hair, he stared at her. All he could do as listen to the voice inside his head scream, "Dear God! She is real, she is alive."
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From the hilltop, an old couple watched, hand in hand, they stood smiling, incorporeal in body but full of spirit, they watch the scene unfold below.
"Well John our grandson will be happy now; he has found her a young lady to fill the emptiness."
"Yup Ethel you are right as usual. These younguns now-a-days, need a little nudge to get them settle down proper. So who is our next project?"
"Well it seems our granddaughter Isabel is infatuated with a guy named Alex she met at the planetarium."
"Well, I guess we need to have them accidentally bump into each other also." Spoke up John as the couple slowly faded, all the time watching Max and Liz began their liveS.
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