Lovers Doomed

Lovers Doomed
Every fairytale has the same beginning of once upon a time... but not all of them end with a happily ever after. This is the tale of the Lovers Doomed.

It happened longer ago than some care to remember, but it is a story about pets who deserve to be remembered. You see, Kira and Terence were very much in love. But being a Gael and a Reve it was a difficult relationship at that. But they were happy while it lasted. But let us start at the beginning of this tale. On a sunny day where the two laid by the waters edge, watching the clouds pass by.

Once upon a time, there were some who said they could not be together. The differences were supposedly too great to overcome. But Kira was fierce in their defense. She and Terence would show them different! Meeting at sunrise by the rivers' edge the two would spend the entire day together. Snuggling in the shallows, sharing their lives with each other and returning to their own homes after watching the sun set behind the vast grasslands of the Fields of Ay.

One particularly sunny day the two met by the rivers' edge again. They snuggled in the shallows, talked for hours with each other and just laid there in silence, watching the clouds slowly float by. But as the sun started to set, marking their time to return home again for the night Kira spoke "My dear Terence how can I leave again only to have to miss you during the night?" Her eyes met those of her love and she saw the same despair.

It lasted several days of more and more painful departures before Terence arrived one morning happier than usual to see his beloved Gael. Kira looked puzzled, for what could possibly be so cheerful? "Kira, my love! I have a question for you and you must answer truthfully!" the Reve landed by the rivers' edge, ruffling his feathers afterwards. He looked somewhat nervous and drew a deep breath before revealing a small velvet box.

"Will you please marry me?" Kira's eyes grew wide with surprise at the question and for a short few seconds she froze in place. Terence started to doubt his question with her silence. Just when he was about to shuffle and turn away the Gael flew around his neck with a big smile on her face. "Yes! Yes of course I will! Now we will never have to be apart again!"

The two lovers prepared for their big day while other pets in the Fields gossiped amongst each other.

Did you hear! Did you hear? I�d almost shed a tear The lovers doomed The scaled and the plumed Their wedding day is near Make sure you appear!

And so their day arrived and everyone was there. Despite their skepticism they cheered, they danced and they laughed with joy. Kira and Terence were happier than ever before. They danced and laughed. They gazed in each other's eyes and thanked everyone for a wonderful day at the end of it all.

The sun started to set and Terence lifted his bride to take to the skies. But Kira wriggled and said "I cannot go to your nest. On land I am slow and can hardly move at all. I am trapped by the weight of it all. You might be free in the sky, but I am imprisoned on the ground."

Terence carefully placed his bride back down in the shallows and stepped inside the water himself "Then I shall join you in your home instead. Never again shall we have to part at night now that you are my wife."

The two laid down to sleep by each other's side and they fell asleep to sweet dreams of happily ever after. Finally together for all of time. With a promise to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part...

The sun rose and Kira slowly opened her eyes and turned to her love. "Wake up my dear Terence, it is day again. We can sit by the rivers' edge until the sun sets at the far end of the fields. But we can stay together now!"

But the Reve did not wake up to the calls of his love. Too late did she realize, the river was no place for a bird of the skies.

And so goes the tale of the Lovers Doomed. At night you might still see a pale, wailing Gael. Lamenting the loss of her loved one by the rivers' edge. Some love, no matter how strong, is just not meant to be a happily ever after...