Fiction: Group 4
Moon saw River looking distant, her eyes getting glassy; he knew she did not want him to leave. He didn't
want to leave either.
"Are you upset?" he whispered. River tried putting a smile on her face; she knew she had to make
the best of what she had.
"I'm not." she smiled at him she did not want him to feel sad because of her. The sadness was
slowly forgotten and locked into a distant drawer of the mind. They talked, laughed and sang all night long
until day break. Falling in love even deeper than they did the night before, they never got bored or tired of
each other. They did this all night until, they had to part.
Moon left his beloved yet again. This time it seemed easier, but he couldn't help but feel the
nagging in his heart. He did not know what to do; he could not bear the thought of him without her for
the entire day. She seemed so upset, it pained his heart. He wanted to give her something that would show
her, his love and make her have a part of him for the day. He wanted something that would remind her of
him for the long hours he wasn't there. He thought long and hard, his mind racing. Until his mind
wandered off to the clear memory of how he met River. Until a thought struck him, he smiled, the thought
warming his heart the way it warmed up when he was truly full of hope.
The next night when Moon settled down again in front of River, he smiled. Moon started talking,
he cleared his throat, a melon sized smile spread on his face "I thought that you might miss me. And I could
not possibly stand the idea of you being all alone again. I want you to be happy." He smiled and pulled a
million scintillating, shining, blazing round rocks out. They were the color of the sky, the color of the stars,
the color of dusk and dawn. Each one filled with the cold colors of the warm Moon. River smiled, her
smiled lighting up his heart in an instant, he knew that she loved it. Her eyes seemed to shine brighter than
ever. Perhaps, they were the tears of joy "How did you make that? These are so dazzling; I've never seen
anything as beautiful." she breathed out.
"Well, I just mixed a bit of me and a bit of the sky and love into it." Moon smiled. "These are
pearls, rocks that will always remind you of me; no matter where I am," he whispered seeing her dazzled
look. His heart warmed at the sight of her happy smile.
From that day on, River filled up with all the pearls you could imagine. The infinite beauty of the
pearls reminding River of her loved one every day. The humans now call this river the Pearl River and her
tributaries the Pearl River Delta. The tributaries were the children of the Pearl River and Moon. They wait
for their father to finally arrive from a day of travel every day; and every night glow with happiness. All filled
with an excess of pearls, made by the unthinkable love of the moon and the Pearl River.
