Bethany

She stood at the edge of a cliff, her silver-blond hair blowing in the wind while her once vibrant violet eyes look sadly at the sea. The soft silky dressed she wore blew in the wind. Her heart hurt, pain had consumed her. She couldn’t take it anymore. The one she loved was betroth to another. But, she didn’t care anymore.

 

Mother Earth had given her life love. She had given her wings, a duty to her people. Father Time had given her beauty. And, she knew she had given it all away. It was foolish for her to fall in love with a human. It was foolish to ask Sister Abigail to transform her into a human mortal.

 

She now longed for her mother and father, she now longed for acceptance�"even love. But, standing here on the edge of the cliff made her wanted her wings back. As she stepped off the cliff she closed her eyes and she realized she wasn’t falling. Looking up she saw her best friend from a lifetime ago.

 

“Bethany…” she whispered.

 

The woman was cloaked in a rose red robe. Her sapphire eyes looked sadly at her. She then pulled Bethany onto the cliff. Bethany crouched down on all fours ashamed to look at her friend, but her friend lifted her chin and made Bethany looked at her. Violet met sapphire.

 

“I saw,” her friend whispered.

 

“Natalie…” Bethany said.

 

Natalie smiled softly as Bethany threw herself into her friend’s arms. Nothing else mattered at the moment. The man of Bethany’s dream vanished from her mind. The pain in Bethany’s heart vanished. She remembered the love that the two women shared, and how she shattered it. And, now they were both immortals.

 

“But why?” Bethany asked.

 

“Silly girl,” Natalie said. “You belong to me.”

 

Natalie raised both her arms above their heads, and whispered a spell transforming both humans back to what they once were. Then they flew through the night lit by stars, hand and hand.