4 For the Birds

These cold barrer shores

Are a prison without doors

Cause hope doesn't live here

It's a starry wide sky,

Your song echoes in the night

I join it with my fute

And hope you will come and sing it too

"Who holds the Key of Love in her hand?"

The riddle echoed in Dark Sarah's mind as she walked and thought over the riddle more. She looked at the statues and grimaced at the reminders of what her fate would be if she fails the test.

She did not want to be a lost soul nor be a part of the army of the dead; she wanted to live and have a life. The earth suddenly started shaking and Dark Sarah noticed a mound of earth starting to form, rise and grow.

Now listen to my call and sing for things

Unknown and in the end

Sing your melody for the memory of my unfulfilled dreams

I am like you but my wings are broken

In this dismal land I am wondering alone

The mound of earth soon became mountainous and the top began glowing fiery red hot. Out of instinct; Dark Sarah hitched her dress up and began running before a mighty sound that was far more ominous...

BOOM!

The newly formed volcano suddenly erupted and everything shook, knocking Dark Sarah down to the ground and she quickly got back to her feet, and kept running. She felt the heat of the lava behind her as she managed to reach the largest mountain and began climbing, tearing the dress in the process without a care, the hems of her skirt and sleeves were slightly singed when the lava rose but she managed to escape without further harm.

Now listen to my call

I'm like a wounded bird away from home

Show me a way to leave this place

The caged bird sings for freedom,

Hoping with a tear that springs,

To fly and leave behind the prison and feel the wind under his wings

Dark Sarah climbed to a plateau surrounding another part of the mountain and she was safe from danger. A cloud of ashes rose into the air and ash rain down like snow for several days; the island was buried under lava and only the mountains remained intact.

Dark Sarah explored the plateau and she began singing; she sang of her hope for a new life and new future. Her voice attracted a bird that flew down and perched it-self on a rock before Dark Sarah, and she noticed that the bird held a key in its beak.

The bird took flight and Dark Sarah followed into a field of white flowers where she collapsed and gazed about. A huge flock of birds began flying around her and they were chattering; it wasn't long until Dark Sarah understood them.

"Sarah is the key-"

"It is Sarah's misery!"

Dark Sarah thought about Sarah and how her heart was cruelly broken by love, and then the answer to her first riddle came to her.

"The answer to the first riddle is Fate;" exclaimed Dark Sarah as she stood up, "Fate holds the Key of Love in her hands!"

The bird flew towards her and perched on her cupped hands; it dropped a bronze key into her palms and flew away. Dark Sarah had solved the first riddle and she became determined to gather the other keys.

I'm like you, in this dismal land

I am wondering alone

Now listen to my call

I'm like a wounded bird away from home

Show me a way to leave this place

Now answer to my call

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