A BEAUTIFUL SOUL CALLED ELEANORA.

***In the Inner Outskirts of Continent 'Eclipse of the Oceans'..

***In the warm embrace of a small house sitted atop a lonely hill..

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Meal's Over.

After tidying up their plates, Eleanora and Navi moves on to reading books.

They are not the most social duo but reading books together is an activity perfect for both of their introverted natures.

 Eleanora sleeps across the couch in a half lying and half sitting position while supporting her back and head with pillows. An open book lays across her frail left hand with her right hand's fingers hinged in between two pages.

*Flip!*.

Eleanora flips over to the next page with intrigue on her face.

 "Have you read this?.", Eleanora asks Navi with slightly furrowed brows that comes off as funny though her gaze stays glued on the book in her hands.

 Navi who's sitting on the floor with his legs crossed and ankles tucked has his back against the couch. He turns his straight neck as he listens to his mom's question while looking into the pages of the book in his one hand.

 Not even bothering to look at the book his mother is talking about, Navi responds calmly witha low, "Um.".

*Flip!*.

Navi also flips another page over.

As long as it's been written on pages, Navi is absolutely sure that he has read not just every book but also every word written in this house countless times over.

 Navi hears the sound of Eleanora childishly scratching into her hair and despite not looking, he can perfectly paint a mental image of her current face..

*Cough!**Cough!*..

Eleanora gives out two sick coughs whole causing Navi to finally look up at her in worry.

*Sniffle!*..

"I'm fine.. and I really should have paid more attention to the stuffs you read.", Eleanora reassures her son before redirecting the attention to her current thoughts.

 Navi turns his attention back to his book before nodding his head twice in genuine agreement at her words.

 The mother and son have been reading for hours in a row now and it's already late evening. Navi can keep on reading because he's already used to sleepless nights and days though this is not the same for the sick Eleanora.

*Yarn!*..

Eleanora gives a sleepy yarn as she stretches her palms out before smacking twice against her parted lips.

 She puts the book she's reading across her face like a cover as she adjusts the pillow she's resting against.

With a sleepy voice, she asks..

 "How do you think the world behind those walls look like?.".

 Navi pauses reading for a moment before answering his mother.

"I'll find out myself.", He says calmly and confidently as he flips another page over.

 "Okay.", Eleanora says lazily without the slightest bit of doubt or sarcasm in her tone.

After this, Eleanora slowly falls into deep sleep.

 The seconds tick by, the sun fully sets and the moon peeps out in a crescent hue to give some light in the world that's now filled with darkness.

 Navi who is still reading a book feels a cold breeze blow through the room while prompting him to drop his book.

His mother is still sleeping on the couch so walking a little, Navi pulls a blanket from the bed in order to cover up her frail body.

Walking back to the couch, Navi trembles for some reason. The second he had felt the cold wind, he could immediately sense that something is wrong.

 Stubbornly, he brings the blanket and drapes it over his mom's body with his body and fingers trembling for a reason he refuses to acknowledge.

 He walks away from his mom's body while sweeping back his hair and panting heavily as his eyes redden.

 Something is wrong and he doesn't dare confirm it!!!..

*PANT!*

*PANT!*

*PANT!*

 Navi's palms moistens from sweat with his lungs finding difficulty with expanding and relaxing. His heartbeat is ringing loudly through his brain and his eyes blinks several times in a row.

 After a while, Navi fights back the tears and then slowly walks to his mother's side. He puts his finger below her nose while begging internally for a gust of warm air but there's.. nothing.

 He pulls his eyes away from Elenora's body while staggering backwards but his legs fails as he falls butt first against the floor.

 Looking at his mother's body which is covered in thick blanket, Navi's body trembles. He takes big breaths with his system hitting a new level of both turbulence and calm..

 He crawls to his mother's side and takes her right hand into both of his own then quietly,.. he moves from desperation to grief.

*Drip!*

 A drop of water falls onto his robes as he sits quietly in the silence.

 For the first time in Navi's life, he dies not bleed in silence but instead,.. he cries in silence.

 He screamed without making a sound, he sobbed without letting it out, he let her go without letting go of her hand.

 From hope to acceptance of reality, from acceptance to anguish, from anguish to sadness, from sadness to true grief, from grief to emptiness..

 Minutes feels like hours as Navi remained sitting by his Mother's side till the next morning.

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The next morning..

 There are only two people in the world apart from himself that came to his mother's grave yard.

 He had dug one for her that very morning as he could not bear seeing Eleanora cold without a place to rest. With the help of Head Geisha Alicia, he bought a coffin and other things needed for a grave.

 Three people, -Navïælét, Alicia and Inami(Eleanora's friend) took control of the burial in silent mourning. They clothed her in traditional white burial robes then put her in the coffin as they silently said their heart tearing goodbyes before covering her up.

 A tombstone with markings of Eleanora's names age and titles was placed and cemented over the neat grave. The slab says-

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 A MOTHER..

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 A FRIEND..

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 A BEAUTIFUL SOUL..

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 Sitting on the floor in front of her grave with reddened but calm eyes, Navi slowly comes to peace with reality.

 He loves his mother of course. He doesn't want her gone and he can never be prepared for something like this happening but.. she was happy.

She was at peace that she died without pains and,.. She was proud.

 Death, whoever or whatever it is would definitely be proud to take such a beautiful soul to the other side.

 She was fulfilled and because he knows this, Navi finds a sense of peace admist the pains. Head Geisha Alicia is also sitting by the side of his mother's grave and for the first time since Navi have known her, she is not wearing her passive mask.

 She seems calm though the sadness in her teary eyes cannot be denied. In all red clothes(like the tradition), the trio sits in silence around the grave they have been torn apart as they built up.

*RUMBLE!₹!*

 Low sound of thunder resounds in the background though the trio barely flinches.

It starts out as a drizzle till it becomes a full out pour down of rain from grey clouds. Und r the rain, the trio remains sitting in the muddy dirt around the grave just Mourning the dismiss of the beautiful soul called 'Eleanora'.

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