Suddenly there was a bright green spot on the horizon. He got closer and closer as he looked at a splendid, exuberant wild garden. Palm trees, apricots, bougainvilleas. He blinked once, twice and still it was there. In the middle of nowhere, miles and miles of nothing, days and weeks of sand and now that! The bloody Garden of Eden! Funnier, Eve was there too! Or, at least, a woman. She was sitting on the well and the adventurer could only see her bright green eyes. The rest of her was covered with rainbow clothes.
"Good morning, ma'am" said the adventurer "nice to find you"
"I'm always here, but they are few who can see me, and even less who stop"
"I can't understand why, ma'am"
"It's my fate, my curse"
"I'm not at my best, but if there's something I can do..."
"How kind, my dear, but there's no solution"
"I can't even start to consider it but, did you offend someone? Has some witch something against you? Some hex?"
"I could believe that"
"Nobody stays with me"
"I'll stay"
"How long?"
"A few days"
"And then you'll go"
"I'll send you a postcard"
"Come back now and then to see me"
"Promise"
"Sure?"
"It's your fate"
She was a goddess, a spirit of the water, a promise of the promised land. Maybe the youngest daughter of a camel's merchant. Who knows? She was joyful and lovely. She was an oasis to everybody who travels beyond the borders.
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