She had never felt lonely. In fact, she didn't know the existence of the feeling. But today, as the sun rose and woke her up, she had this. This feeling of comparing her solitude with other's togetherness struck her. It was like magnetic force attracting her to the community she saw yesterday. Her brain worked so fast calling back everything has happened and without another minute to wait, she ran towards the place where people had been gathering.
The whole group was interesting. She sat and watched from far. When the sun was right above her head, she moved to hide under a group of trees, looking for a shade. There was someone different among all, she realised. While everyone was living in a tent with each others, this middle-aged woman lived alone in her tent. She also dressed differently, with more fur and accessorise than others in the group. After all, the woman possessed something that others didn't, let say, a beauty.
My little girl found it was hard to look away from this woman. With a gracefulness she walked, a gentleness she moved and perfect bone structure in her face, what a hypnotic sight! So this girl was really startled when suddenly the woman turn her head towards the group of trees when the girl was hiding. The woman kept seeing those trees for a longer time and after a while, she moved to take her horse, rode towards the trees.
The girl, realising what might be happening, ran away. She left her place and crossed the river, entered the forest and was suddenly freezed by the sound of horse's neighing.
Currently, one thing separating the girl and the woman was only a small river to be crossed. Luckily, the forest was so dense that the woman could not see what was inside. Not even in her mind that someone could be there, and also that her horse couldn't stop neighing refused to cross the river, she turned away and back to the place she was.
It was very relieving for my little girl. Ensured that the woman and her horse had quite far leaving her, she decided to come back to her hut. Just before she left, something was disturbing her eyes. It was something shining from the other side of the river. As this girl was really good in notifying her surroundings, she knew that the thing wasn't there before. So again she crossed the river to see what could be so shiny and disturbing.
The shiny thing wasn't actually shiny, she discovered. It was a red coloured stone that reflected sunshine. A beautiful, transparent and well cut stone. The size was fit in the girl's fist. For the second time today, she was hypnotised by a beauty. She realised that the stone was the woman's, a beauty owned by beauty, and this stone was falling from the woman when she left the river with her horse.
Bringing the stone she found, the girl back to her hut. She spent the rest of the day observing the stone. In fact, it was not a full observation as the girl just looking at the stone in her palm. Sitting at the corner of her bed, nothing else she was doing.
The red stone may not shining, but its existence darkened others around it. So this was how this day ended: my little girl slept while keeping the stone in her palm, wished that it could accompany her in tonight's dream.
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