The wind blew through the great willow trees, rustling them slightly.
The world always laid quiet at this time of night as the moon watched over
it, casting its pale softly lit glow. It calmed the soul in a way none
other could even begin to understand. Its reflection on the soothing waters
of the sea danced in a mystical rhythm to a song that no mortal ear could
hear. The stars pushed past the clouds reveling themselves just as twilight
vanished below the horizon, following the sapphire sun. The soft melody of
the night played on as the wind glided through the branches of those trees,
playing with the leaves as it passed, like a child revisiting a good
friend. Flowers bloomed, blanketing the earth with soft shades of blue as
fireflies appeared all around them. The fireflies vanishing and reappearing
scattering their magical light around the world and the path that lay
before all who pass through it.
A soft whisper could be heard as the night slowly drifted on.
Footsteps through the tall thin blades of grass began to appear. Lanterns
made from metals more beautiful then any other upon the earth began to
float through the air, towards this quiet sanctuary. Cloaked in robes of
silver, decorated with the most beautiful of patterns. Leaves and vines
woven into the fabric could now be seen on these cloaked figures as they
stepped closer. Crowns and silver leaves decorated their long flowing hair
as their crystal eyes gazed upon the silent flowers. Their soft steps and
light footprints left not a single blade of grass harmed as they stopped in
the center of the clearing.
As soon as they stopped they began to make ready. Lighting a fire the
color of crimson and sunflower and letting their shadows dance among the
willow trees that surrounded them. Removing their cloaks to revealing well
decorated and lined dresses and peasantry clothes of a silver-green color
that shimmered in the light. Baskets uncovered as fruit of every sort
seemed to be over flowing from them and large wooden pitchers of water lay
next to them capturing the moon in its constant ripples. Wine was poured
from a golden pitcher imprinted with the very grapevines in which the wine
it contained was maid from. The goblets they drank from were carved with
symbols of their culture and scenes of forests with willow trees, just as
the one they rest in reflected. Laughing and dancing, music played from
instruments unlike any mortal's creation played and lifted up to the
heavens with merry cheer and gentle melodies. The fireflies circled the
dancers and musicians eliminating them in a soft glow as the fire
brightened the world.
Midnight passed and they continued on with the laugher and music,
never tiring and never worrying. The wind brushing by them twirling their
dresses and capes, and tossing their flowing hair as the leaves of the
willow trees were tossed. Fireflies light reflected in their crystal gaze
as the fire's reflection playfully danced within them. The flowers that had
bloomed began to collect morning dew within them as they slowly began to
close and seal their delicate beauty from the worlds touch. The light of
dawn slowly began to awaken in the starlit sky. And the stars themselves
slowly went to sleep fading away as dawn touched each one of them.
Just as they came, the dancers went. Cloaked in their mystical robes
and collecting their empty baskets and pitchers they silently left the
clearing. The fire faded away with their footsteps, leaving not a single
trace of ever being there. The pale soft moon set behind the horizon the
rest its weary self as the crimson sun began to peak over its own horizon
in a daring explosion of light. The fireflies resting and sleeping under
the petals of the flowers s they sealed themselves from the touches of the
sun bright light. The wind dieing down and letting the branches of the
great willow trees rest delicately. The sun's reflection replacing the
moon's reflection in the constantly rippling sea, while birds uplifting
songs could be heard. The sun touched the sky, leaving the safety of the
earth behind, till twilight once more.
In the center of the clearing, a gleaming starlight glistens in the
untouched blades of glass. A small delicately and carefully carved necklace
rests there, and the pendant depicting the sun and moon captures the lights
rays reflecting them back. The Elvin's dance was over, till the next night,
but the memory of them rests within the clearing, and the world around
them. A memory the mortals have yet to catch a single glimpse of, but the
very earth remembers so clearly. As twilight once again, begin to descend
upon the world.