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Clarine was a capricious water sprite and she loved to be quite mischievous and prone to playing fairy tricks on people, she wasted most of her time wandering the rice fields and watching farmers sowing and reaping. The Land sprite kept on asking her why she loved to stay that way, why not to do her job and pour some rain to helped the farmers till the soil easier and cultivate the farm. Clarine, on the contrary, will generated snow to cover the fields so the farmer will find it difficult to plow the area and deposit the seeds. She finds pleasure seeing people suffer and hasty to do something to save the remaining crops or shovel the snow. She enjoyed the sight of a worried human because she was intrigued about person’s emotions.

One day, the Queen of all nature’s sprites lost her patience towards Clarine, resulting to summoned her to dispense justice with all her wrongdoings, the Queen said “because of your misbehavior and naughtiness that I don’t expect for a good sprite. We are here to help the people not to bring misery and affliction, and because you love to know how they will react, that the face of worries gives you delight. Tonight, I will claim your power and curse you, you will become a human being and we will see how gratified you’ll be experiencing the same.”

The next morning, as she opened her eyes and saw a wooden ceiling, she’s lying on a bed, someone’s bed! At the right side of her eyes, peripherally she saw a sleeping man, she rose from the bed and sit next to the sleeping man and checked his face. The man looked very tired and looked neglected. Her breath woke the man up and their eyes locked, for his’ ash gray and she has chestnut brown eyes. Is this loved at first sight? Her heart pounded like racing horses.

The man told her how he found her in the woods, naked and lying on the floor, so he decided to bring her home. The man is a widower, as she listened to the man’s life story, slowly she felts fondness for him and wants to console him. She asked how did the wife and son die, and he said,

“My wife died after my son’s deliverance. “

The man continued, “My child… that was one afternoon, we’re expecting for the rain to come but instead a snow came to pour the land, and covered almost the entire field and surroundings. My son loves to play and run with his friends, but that afternoon he made it alone because no child wants to go outside that’s why nobody accompanied him. Accidentally, my son slipped and hit his head on the rock. That’s the reason of his death.” She saw his deep sadness and she felt sore as if somebody struck her heart. It was her to be the sole responsible of that, what a shame! Does she want to pay the pain she gave to this guy while asking herself, why she felt this way? Why a sudden changed of heart?

She only has one answer. He saved me, or I love him? What is love? Why did I feel this way? What’s wrong with me, with my heart?

At her side, a human size mirror was placed, all of a sudden she saw her reflection, and her face… it was full of worries, melancholic eyes, and ache.

Now she knows.

(Disclaimer: Photo from google)