Chapter 9: Welcome back!
"Note from the day before tomorrow"
Ten years passed and the menace of miasma started spooking everybody's dreams so the wars between empires finally stopped and all the efforts focused on finding a new way to overcome oblivion.
By that time, Callum, Selt Reen, Lily and Yukelis found themselves alone in the middle of the rubbles of a war which had no sense at all. Lost and lonely, they decided to go to the mushroom forest.
They all arrived in there, not at the same time but they suddenly found themselves at the place of birth. Why did they go to that place anyway? Haven't they forgotten everything about their past? None of them knew but they all ended up meeting in the same place they used to go playing.
When they saw each other face, each other eyes, each other lost smiles, they all remembered those orphans they used to be…and they consider how, now, they were orphans once again, abandoned below the wide open sky again.
They met each other at the mushroom forest, behind a turquoise haired tree, a tree of mystique aura and pure water.
"We are all together again!" exclaimed Selt Reen, with her eyes full of tears.
And then, they all hugged next to that tree…they hugged next to me and I protected them from the evil monsters. My memories of them had turned into tears, into songs, into that gracious tree. The instruments of them, I gave them back on that day.
Since then, they started recurring to play their instruments under that tree. So finally I could listen to Yukelis accordion and Lily's first steps on the oboe. Callum was always so skillful… So he could play outside of Tida after all! And Selt Reen's dance was still graceful even after all those years.
I was happy.
People from every land started going to the mushroom forest, to listen to them all, to listen to the symphony of the tribes finally united at the place where life comes from, at the place where all tribes were born together. So from that day on, tribes at every town started playing that same song to celebrate the unity between them and for peace to exist afterwards.
When the crystals started decaying, caravans would come to me for that mystique water to fill their chalices and bring hope to their lands, and bring precious memories to sing about.
And Callum, Selt Reen, Lily and Yukelis were the privileged to give a name to the tree they discovered, to the tree they all found on that day at the mushroom forest.
"A name? So they decided to give me a name?"
And they all agreed, like in the past…coincidentally they all thought on the same name, at the same time, at the same space…
And I was called "Myrrh" and everybody starting calling me Myrrh even Callum who had now recovered his voice.