Part Two: " I wake in pain…"
Chapter 6
The Song from the Tower
He was there again, meditating, but this time, there was no peace for him.
He yearned to see her, to touch her, to know whether she was real or not…and to save her from whatever haunted her.
"Help me."
He whirled as her voice cut the air.
"Please…"
Her scent was everywhere, filling his nose, heightening his senses, awakening feelings he had never felt before.
Leo breathed eagerly and called out," Where are you?"
"I am trapped! Help me!" her voice cried out, as if in pain.
He raced towards her voice, panting, racing, his heart pounding. Mist rolled from nowhere.
He could hardly see his hand in front of his face.
He was lost, and he looked around wildly.
"Where are you?!" he screamed.
Silence…
Then, her silver voice broke through to him,
"Sometimes love is hard to find…
Without prejudice, to accept who I am,
If it bears all things and innocently blind,
With open arms, I try it this time…"
He followed her beautiful voice, drawn by the sweet, intoxicating, silver tones.
"Because of you, I make this choice,
I'll wander the outlands just to hear your voice,
Have mercy on me as I walk across this land,
You reached out, and I grabbed your hand…"
He broke through the mist and the trees and gasped.
A tower, high into the clouds, stood a few hundred feet from him.
His eyes saw a window, small and square, in a door in the tower.
He walked to it slowly.
"Are you here?" he yelled.
No answer.
He tried to open the door.
No use.
He knocked, and then looked in through the window.
Still nothing. There was a staircase, leading straight up, winding round and round.
Nothing more.
Nothing less.
"WHERE ARE YOU?!" he yelled.
From nowhere, a mist rolled in, covering the land, the tower, everything from view.
Her voice murmured in his ear," I am trapped. Please…set me free…"
***
Suddenly, he was awake, sweating, panting, the sheets twisted around his legs.
Leo swallowed hard.
"Where are you?" he murmured, tears coming to his eyes.
She had sounded so helpless, so tired and so scared…and he hadn't been there to put his arms around her, to assure her that everything would be fine. That he would take care of her. That he would rescue her….
"What the shell are you thinking of, Leo?" He muttered tightly to himself.
Even if she did need his help, there was no way she would accept him in that way…not in a long shot.