#Bites — Separation
“It’s time”, he said
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“Time for what”, she asked.
He then looked at her eyes intensely and it said “Time for the ship to sail, for the sailor to realize that the water is clear enough and the weather is great and that there is no point in staying on the dock waiting.”
She did board the ship but to a different destination. He watched wave at him with numb eyes, asking him to stay in touch.
He really thought she would be his companion and they could sail away into a rocky but exciting journey, but life and she had different plans. He stayed back for a while only to realise that a couple of days passed by and he was still there. He then got up to get ready for his voyage of solitude and as soon as he boarded the ship with a heavy heart and sailed, the clouds started getting darker. He thought that the heavy winds would help me sail before the rains come pouring and suddenly the winds changed the direction and pushed him back. It started raining heavily and he thought to get some rest while the storm passes by. It just went on for days and when he finally saw that the rain had stopped, he realised that the ship had developed a crack and the water had started seeping in. He looked upto see as to where he was and he couldn’t figure out. There was neither land, trees, ships or even birds in his sight and as he sat down in a relatively dry portion of the hull he had several emotions surfacing within. The rage he felt for making all the wrong choices, the sadness for all the unfortunate situations, the fear of what’s to come next but somewhere in the corner he was happy that she had sailed through safely. Little did he know that her ship had encountered a similar storm and she too was in disarray.
