CLAMORING

IN THE CLAMORING CITY OF EVERWOOD, THERE CARRIED ON WITH A YOUTHFUL COUPLE, ELARA AND LYSANDER, WHOSE ADORATION WAS BASICALLY AS PROFOUND AS THE UNDERLYING FOUNDATIONS OF THE OLD TREES THAT ENCOMPASSED THEIR HOME. THEY MET ON A MID-YEAR'S DAY IN THE MARKET SQUARE, WHERE ELARA WAS SELLING HER HANDMADE GEMS, AND LYSANDER WAS ENRAPTURED BY HER EXCELLENCE AND BEAUTY.

AS THEY HUNG OUT, THEIR AFFECTION DEVELOPED, LIKE A PLANT MOVING TOWARDS THE SUN, SOLID AND UNWAVERING. THEY WOULD FREQUENTLY MEANDER THROUGH THE CAPTIVATED BACKWOODS THAT LINED THE CITY, INVESTIGATING ITS SECRET MEADOWS AND MYSTERY WAYS, LOST IN ONE ANOTHER'S ORGANIZATION.

IN ANY CASE, AS TIME ELAPSED, THEIR AFFECTION CONFRONTED DIFFICULTIES, LIKE A TEMPEST TAKING STEPS TO REMOVE THE MOST GROUNDED OF TREES. LYSANDER'S FAMILY DISLIKED THEIR RELATIONSHIP, CONSIDERING ELARA TO BE UNDERNEATH THEIR STATION. THEY ATTEMPTED TO DESTROY THE COUPLE, SPREADING UNTRUTHS AND MISLEADING TOXIC SUBSTANCE IVY IN THE UNDERBRUSH.

REGARDLESS OF THE OBSTRUCTIONS, ELARA AND LYSANDER'S AFFECTION PERSEVERED, LIKE A GUIDE OF LIGHT IN THE MOST OBSCURE OF EVENINGS. THEY REMAINED STEADFAST AGAINST THE TIDE OF DIFFICULTY, THEIR ADORATION BECOMING FURTHER AND STRONGER AS TIME PASSED.

AT SOME POINT, AS THEY WERE INVESTIGATING A SECRET WOOD SOMEWHERE DOWN IN THE CORE OF THE WOODLAND, THEY COINCIDENTALLY FOUND A MYSTERIOUS SPRING. LEGEND HAD IT THAT THE WATERS OF THE SPRING HAD THE ABILITY TO UNCOVER THE REAL ESSENCE OF ONE'S HEART.

INQUISITIVE, ELARA AND LYSANDER DRANK FROM THE SPRING, AND AS THEY DID, THEIR APPEARANCE GLEAMED AND MOVED, UNCOVERING THEIR ACTUAL SELVES TO ONE ANOTHER. AT THAT TIME, THEY SAW THE PROFUNDITY OF THEIR ADORATION REFLECTED IN ONE ANOTHER'S EYES, AND THEY REALIZED THAT NOTHING MIGHT AT ANY POINT DESTROY THEM.

AS THEY KEPT ON INVESTIGATING THE TIMBERLAND, THEY HAPPENED UPON A CLEARING WASHED IN BRILLIANT LIGHT. IN THE FOCAL POINT OF THE CLEARING STOOD A MAGNIFICENT TREE, ITS BRANCHES COMING TO TOWARDS THE SKY LIKE THE OUTSTRETCHED ARMS OF A SWEETHEART.

THEY SAT UNDERNEATH THE TREE, LOUNGING IN ITS GLOW, AND THEY PROMISED TO BE TOGETHER ALWAYS, THEIR AFFECTION AS TIMELESS AS THE TREE THAT SHIELDED THEM. FURTHERMORE, AS THEY TALKED ABOUT THEIR COMMITMENTS, THE TREE APPEARED TO MURMUR ITS FAVORS, ITS LEAVES STIRRING IN THE DELICATE BREEZE LIKE A DELICATE, CONSOLING HUG.

YEARS PASSED, AND ELARA AND LYSANDER BECAME OLD TOGETHER, THEIR AFFECTION FOREVER BRILLIANT, LIKE AN IMMORTAL THAT REVERBERATED THROUGH THE AGES. ALSO, WHEN THEY PASSED FROM THIS WORLD, THEIR SPIRITS TOOK OFF TOGETHER, LIKE TWO BIRDS TAKING OFF, EVERLASTINGLY ENTWINED IN THE UNENDING DANCE OF AFFECTION.

IN ANY CASE, AS THEY REMAINED NEAR THE PRECARIOUS EDGE OF ENDLESSNESS, THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT THEIR AFFECTION WAS NOT LIMITED BY TIME OR SPACE, BUT RATHER BY THE STRENGTH OF THEIR SOULS AND THE PROFUNDITY OF THEIR SPIRITS. WHAT'S MORE, AS THEY EMBRACED, THEIR SPIRITS BLENDED, BECOMING ONE, THEIR AFFECTION SPARKLING MORE BRILLIANT THAN THE STARS IN THE SKY.

THUS, AS YOU READ THEIR STORY, RECOLLECT THAT GENUINE AFFECTION KNOWS NO LIMITS, RISING ABOVE REALITY, AND THAT THE BEST ROMANTIC TALES ARE THOSE THAT LIVE ON EVERLASTINGLY IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE WHO ACCEPT.