Once Upon a Love

Once upon a time, there was a girl who wanted nothing else but love. She craved it like a chocolate ice cream, like a sun-drenched beach and a gentle breeze. She wished only for the grazing of lips and the sweet touch that could only be given by someone who loves her. 1

This girl, when she was 15 grew to admire, then to like and then to love a 19 year old boy, who said to love her but ended hurting her. She drew back away from him and ran to her world of fancy and slept among unicorns and nymphs and grew cold on the outside, but secretly held hope for finding a love like the one she craved. 2

Time passed and the girl lived and loved another, another who hurt her like the first. And this time, when she retired to her Fincayra, she sought out Merlin for help. Merlin gave her a magic leaf and strong vines which she used to weave a shield that the magic leaf made impermeable. The little girl returned to the world a woman, with a heart based on her head and a frown etched on her features. The now 19 year old girl grew colder and colder by the day. She made friends with the now 25 year old, old love. And she resolved to keep it such.But today the 25 year old speaks word of love again to the 19 year old woman.3

The  now woman is faced with a question: "Does she stay cold and safe, or give a chance to the first who broke her heart, but is now a friend?" Her heart, who had been in hiding from her hardened mind, began jumping like a child, releasing the little girl which had been pushed back and away to make room for reason, and begged to seek out the love that it yearned.  The mind saw the facts and said quietly but sternly that he'd have to prove he's changed. He'd have to become who those around us needed him to be. Fincayra was silent, and began to weave the curing robes the  woman would need, for her heart had already made up the mind and the pain to come would be like no other...4

Fincayra waited for an eternity...5