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| Lydia Happ and The Forest of Lemon Trees; Short Stories from Elronds Novel | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 25 2008, 11:24 PM (128 Views) | |
| Elrond Halfelven | Jul 25 2008, 11:24 PM Post #1 |
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These are Short Stories from The Forest of Happ. This is the first one. They center on a young woman named Lydia Happ, the first person to leave Weaving in over seven thousand years. This is the story of The Lemon Trees, the first creatures Lydia bent towards her will. The first creatures that helped Lydia. Helped her to build The City of Miss Happ. This is the story of Lydia Happ and her journey through the End of The World and into the Lemon Tree. Lydia Happ and The Lemon Trees. In the city of Weaving, everyone was always happy, Mother made it that way. No one ever cried, no one ever despaired, no one ever wanted to leave, save for one girl. Lydia Happ was her name, and she felt emotions so deeply and thoroughly that people around her were affected by them. If Miss Happ was unhappy, the people around her were unhappy. This would not do for Mother, so one day she sent Lydia away to the Forest of Happ. She was the first to leave Weaving in over seven thousand years. What she did in the Forest of Happ killed a species, built a civilization and changed the world. This is the story of Lydia Happ and The Lemon Trees. Ever since Lydia Happ walked through the Door labeled "The End of The World" she had been searching for a place to rest her head. Being away from the nutrient rich atmosphere of Weaving had made her extremely hungry and she longed to rest her head on a tree and sleep. After many grueling hours of walking through golden fields and diamond rivers Lydia, for the first time in her lief, finally saw a real Lemon Tree. It was sitting on the top of a hill like a king, it's wizened arms embracing the sun, it seemed to hold up the sky. On the ends of it's branches it bore golden fruit that although sour, could sustain Miss Happ for years. Lydia ran to the tree in pure joy and laid her head down on it's soft roots. She was asleep in minutes. The Lemon Tree, having felt Lydia's euphoria shone all the brighter and moved it's roots around Miss Happ's body to comfort her. That night, nestled in the roots of the Lemon Tree, Lydia had her first dream. It's cold, it's raining and Lydia is unhappy. A man walks up to her with a nightmare on his head and yells at her. Lydia runs away from him and through a door marked "The End of The World." Running through this door she leaves the hatred and despair, the hopes and dreams, the lives and deaths of Weaving behind, and enters a world where she can be happy. As she runs her hands through the Golden Plants of the Field, they brighten and turn their flowers towards her. Like a glowing beacon of hope and happiness she runs through the Forest of Happ and sows the seeds of what will eventually be the Great City of Miss Happ. The city grows, right out of the dirt like the Golden Plants and it spirals and rises around Lydia. All the while it's Lydias Hope and Lydias Dreams that power the great city, higher and higher, until it's spires seem to touch the sky that the Lemon Tree holds up. Lydia smiles and lets out a euphoric laugh which juts the city higher and higher, bigger and bigger. The City of Miss Happ grew and it's people prospered, all powered by Lydias Dreams, Hopes and the Lemon Tree. Lydia awoke, covered in fallen flowers to a sound quite unlike any other she had heard. It was the rustling of leaves from a thousand trees, all blowing in the wind. She looked around her and was astounded by what she saw. What at first was one Lemon Tree had dropped it's lemons and grown into more Lemon Trees, creating an entire forest of Lemon Trees. And now, when she looked down from the branches of the Lemon Tree at the top of the hill, she saw thousands of Lemon Trees, covering the land and stretching to the horizon, all bearing Golden Fruit and waving their arms up and down in a strange bowing motion towards her. This was The Forest of Lemon Trees, created by The Dreams of Miss Happ and it would be her legacy until her death, thousands of years in the future. Lydia smiled, bent down and picked up a Lemon. She bit right into it, through the thick skin. It wasn't the sour taste she was used to, it was sweet and savory. It danced on her taste buds and tickled her throat on the way down. Lydia Happs emotions, her dreams, her hopes, fears, happiness, cries and life had powered the Lemon Trees to keep her asleep for over three hundred years, as the forest grew bigger and bigger. Lydia now knew what the purpose of her life was. To sleep over the years, like a stone that skips across the water, waking up to stop here and there, never stopping for long enough to swim. And while Lydia skipped through the generations, the small people that were growing in the roots of The Lemon Trees would grow, come out of the ground, and swim in the generations that Miss Happ skipped. The lives she created would destroy, create, love, kill and most importantly, dream. For these creatures were not Humans of Weaving, they were Humans of The Past, they felt emotion on a greater level, and like The Humans of the Past, they had Loving and Healing in every heart, and Death and Destruction in every hand. |
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