: Chapter 6: Of
Sorrow and a Broken Heart :
Doubar, Firouz and Rongar
went to the town to do shopping, while Sinbad spent the whole day on his ship –
working restlessly. The day was nearly over when he was finally too exhausted
to continue and took a little break on deck, watching the sunset. He heard
steps behind him and at first assumed that it was Bryn.
"Hey." It was Maeve's voice.
"Hey", Sinbad replied as she
leaned next to him on the rail.
"I've heard what happened.
I'm sorry", she said.
The young sailor smiled
sadly.
"Thanks."
"You must be very
disappointed. She meant much to you, didn't she?"
"Well, she still does –
that's the problem."
"Yeah. I can imagine that it
must be hard when the one person you'd be able to give your heart to suddenly
shows her real face – and turns into a total stranger. As if everything that
happened in the past was just a lie."
"Right", he said, surprised
that Maeve seemed to know exactly how he was feeling.
"I'm sorry – you probably
don't want to talk about it –"
"No, no!" he said in
disagreement. "It feels really good."
"Well, that's how I feel,
too. I mean, by standing here with you again – after all that happened during
the last year."
Sinbad looked at her. No,
this person couldn't be evil. Then she turned to look into his face, too. Their
eyes met and suddenly Sinbad could feel her lips softly touching his. He kissed
her back in order to forget all his sorrows for a while and soon he thought of
nothing but her and him, embracing, as the last rays of sunlight disappeared
somewhere behind the horizon.
Bryn had been inside her
cabin for the whole day – crying and thinking. But she finally had to get out a
bit and went upstairs to the deck to get a little fresh air. But as she looked
to the rail and saw Sinbad standing there with Maeve – kissing! – she turned
away again in shock and pain.
"No! No, please!" Bryn
whispered. She could feel her heart breaking.
TBC