5 Older people are the key to success

July 20, 2020

Canoas Island, Brazil

The mid-year vacation, especially for graduating students, was like a pleasant melody to hear about to face a prelude to hell that would be the entrance exams. For both, counting the days was essential.

Some, having the opportunity, would take a trip to clear their minds. Thus, a young woman, apparently 16 years old, sitting on the beach, left people thinking about this possibility.

Possibility, like any variable, is only one of the real points to be discovered.

That young girl was not as young as her appearance suggests.

In addition, she was not melancholy over doubts or difficult life issues.

She was waiting for someone else.

Bored, she decided to walk on the beach. Tired and still bored, he decided to sit down.

The impatient girl heard footsteps, looking at where they were coming from, blinking sad eyes in regret.

"Did you want to let me fry in the sun for two hours on the beach? Did you happen to forget your good friend on this sunny day Fernanda ?!"

Who arrived was also a young girl.

She was tall and thin. She wore a white dress with small patterned sunflowers and with her long black hair tied at the top of her head, she was like a proud swan - but completely lifeless and listless. His eyes were black and opaque, uninterested in everything around him.

"Ceuci"

The teenager slowly sat on the warm beach, ignoring the sand that stained her beautiful dress.

"Disappointed?"

"No"

"I see. I know I was expecting Sumé. Not me, in this moment of your fragility"

With her beautiful face swaying in denial, Fernanda like Ceuci, began to watch the waves gradually come to the coast of the island.

Seeing how quiet Fernanda was, Ceuci's courteous air diminished.

"You fill me with frustration, child"

"Sumé said you were going to give me your blessings, that's why I'm not surprised"

The weeping on Ceuci's face grew.

She, as a mother, was happy to have a son, who, unlike Fernanda, had a high emotional coefficient. Even though it has caused problems for your beloved son ...

"You speak so mechanically like this that fills me with frustration! Where is your joy of being reborn? Where am I not seeing? My eyes were blinded by the bright sun ?!"

Impatient, the goddess who has lived millennia, did not avoid questioning with her childish voice.

"For my rebirth, I don't know how to say it, but it doesn't seem like something I could evaluate in a single day"

"Ah, that child… Okay, when you can enjoy your second chance to live in this world, come and talk to me"

Frowning and throwing his body into the sand, he continued:

"Sumé said that in your last job, you found Iara. She, like you, had the chance to live among the living after she died for the first time. I believe she heard the legends of mermaids living in rivers and seas. Ironically, instead of going back to the human world, she decided to live among the fish "

Finding it funny, she laughed and pointed her right hand at the sea, unconcerned.

"She even got stupid names like Mother of Water and Queen of the Sea. And as her heart developed hatred for men, she began to enchant weak-minded people with her voice and drown them in water. All because she didn't know how to trust people again ..."

After sitting down, Ceuci avoided telling the reason for Iara's resentment.

"Iara was killed by her father and her body was thrown into the water, without ceremony and care, like garbage"

Even without Ceuci continuing to tell the story, Fernanda knew the reality faced by Iara.

"You know the legend ... assuming the cause is the stupid names that people put on Iara, it would be strange for someone not to know her"

For the first time diverting his attention from the waves of the sea, Fernanda's green eyes became cloudy, remembering the woman's reminder before committing suicide.

"Don't be like me"

Observing Fernanda's change of mood, Ceuci started telling the story.

"She was a wonderful warrior. To defend her life, she ended up killing her brothers. They were unfortunate! Jealous of having a sister capable of great conquests, they ignored the blood running through her veins and went after her own sister's life. to make things worse, instead of her father understanding the situation, he helped to expel her from the tribe they lived in. Homeless, alone and helpless, she didn't know that this was not the end "

Ceuci, sighed and looked at Fernanda out of the corner of his eyes, telling me again what he knew about Iara's life.

"The father, to avenge the dead children, decided to go after his daughter. Angered, she ended up murdered. To hide from the other members of the tribe, he threw Iara's corpse into the river, hoping that the strong currents of the river would carry the evidence of his crime away. Ah, this is annoying! When Iara had the chance to live again, she didn't have the courage to live among humans! I don't know what went on in her head to feel guilty for killing her brothers. They deserved it. But, anyway, she remains stubborn and foolish. Living far from human civilization, she was bold to commit murder, but she was warm to others who prayed for her to seek help for fruitful fisheries. "

Finishing speaking, Ceuci decided to end the conversation, quickly resolving what he came here to do.

"I say all this so I don't have to see my gift being unusable"

Between the fingers of his right hand, a grain of corn appears. It was a common grain of corn, if not for a seed held by Ceuci.

She made a hole in the sand and put the seed in it, putting the sand over the corn grain again.

Strangely, the corn grain started to grow on a plant, even though it was placed in adverse soil and without much water.

The two girls waited by the side, watching the corn stalk grow to the height of an adult human and produce a single ear of corn between its stem. Seeing the final formation of the ear of corn, Ceuci took it in solemnity.

When the plant finishes harvesting, the ear, still green, begins to dry. Dry, Ceuci peels the ear, leaving the straw beside him and placing the ear on the ground. At the end of the process, which was the ear and the foot of the corn, they disappear and disintegrate in the humid sea wind.

With the straw remaining, Ceuci carefully separates a leaf in good condition and writes the name of [Fernanda] with a clay stone.

As a last act of care, she throws the straw into the wind.

In the wind, the straw burns.

The fire was quick and decisive.

"Thanks"

With low words, in a whisper of thanks, Fernanda launches her thanks.

Surprised by the "good behavior of the child", Ceuci decided to make new reminders to Fernanda.

"You traveled between parallel worlds this time to complete Sumé's tasks, developing a soul of great value through it. A powerful soul does not accept a fragile human body as a cover, creating a protective barrier, through my enchantment, will help you to relieve the resentments and hurts of your spirit. As it is a simple cover, use the time I got to develop a strong body, integrating your soul to it. You will live normally after doing this "

"This will take a while"

"Don't be impatient, this will be faster than being forced to do 100 years of tasks by a lazy. What is it to feel discomfort for two years? "

"....."

Fernanda decided not to argue with her elders.