dontravis.com blog post #571
This
week, we have the second installment of Mark Wildyr’s story of a magic
mountain. I enjoyed last week’s segment when Hargis met the beautiful Gwendolyn
on the mountain but foreswore her considerable charms… much to his own
puzzlement. Let’s see what happens next.
THE
MOUNTAIN
By
Mark Wildyr
The pathway ahead became far more difficult.
Rocks torn
from the slope blocked the way at times. Late afternoon found me panting and
sweating at the edge of another beautiful park and mentally kicking my bum for
refusing to sample the beautiful girl on the back trail. Mindful of the
refreshing bath earlier that day, I knelt at the side of that same mountain
stream and washed away the day’s grime before partaking of the cool water.
As I started
to rise, I froze. Standing
on the opposite shore where the stream was at its narrowest, was a slender
youth.
I issued a challenge from sheer surprise.
“Who is
there?”
“A friend,” came a clear, light voice.
My words had
galvanized the figure to action. Gracefully, the stranger leapt the stream
and strode to meet me. “My
name is Gwinnyth,” said a gamin mouth set in a gamin’s face. It was another
girl…or woman, if you prefer. Younger than the other, but looking strangely the same
except she was slimmer and wore her dark hair cropped close to the head in a
strangely pleasing manner.
Introducing myself, I admitted to being a
traveler on the way to the far coast. Offering me sustenance, she walked up the
stream in a strong, boyish gait to a fire merrily burning in a carefully
constructed rock pit. A
hare simmered in a spit over the flames.
As she carefully offered a meal of charred
flesh on a broad green leaf, she set about questioning me. I responded
good-naturedly.
“I am Hargis of Rodenbury, a cobbler on my
way to the eastern shore to visit boon companions from my past.”
“You go to seek your beloved?” she asked
innocently, her small head dainty upon its slender neck.
“Nay,” I protested quickly and then paused
at the thought. “Mayhap
you have struck upon a truth. There is a fair lady awaiting on that shore.”
“One? You spoke of two?” she said, nibbling at a
hare’s leg on her own leaf.
“The other is a youth. Nay, he’s a man by
now. I
keep remembering him as I saw him last these three summers past.”
She looked up with interest. “He is fair, as
well?”
“When last I saw him, he was as beautiful
as his sister.”
“Then likely still he is,” she said
nonchalantly. Suddenly,
she eyed me frankly. “You
have traveled far. You
will spend the night with me?”
There was no doubt of her meaning. Her dark eyes
examined me from pate to boot with the same disconcerting frankness as had
Gwyndolyn. Fresh
from that sweet temptation, my rod reacted with excitement.
“And where do you bed down for the night?”
I asked through a tight voice.
“Why here, of course,” she replied.
“Have you no home?”
She glanced at me with puzzlement. “The mountain is
my home.”
“Have you never been off it?”
Again, she looked perplexed. “There is no other
place, at least in this world,” the
small mouth proclaimed firmly.
“Then from whence do I come?” I asked with
a smile.
“The other world,” she responded promptly.
Delighted at the provinciality of this
woman-child, I rose with a laugh and proceeded to wash myself at the stream.
As she had
no blankets of her own, I allowed her to snuggle against me as we settled by
the campfire. She
made no objection when I lay close behind her, my groin fitted to her rounded
buttocks.
Strange, I thought to myself, that I
should be so excited by this slight woman when I spurned the voluptuous
Gwyndolyn. Nevertheless,
I responded to her. As
my staff rose, her firm buns wiggled closer against me. I reached around
and fastened upon a rounded breast with a rigid nipple. Aye, I’d take this
one for all her boyish, coltish ways.
Suddenly, a loud noise at the edge of the
glen drew me to my feet ready to meet any danger. A lilting laugh
eased my concern.
“Tis only a stag drawn to the fire and
bolting when he caught our scent,” she said. Thudding hoof beats through the far
brush seemed to confirm her opinion. “Come back to our bed,” the girl pled.
And I did, but my ardor was deflated, the
desire gone. I
turned my back to her, and resting my head on my arms, I wondered at the
fragility of my need. My
heart raced, but it was from the interruption, not the wanting.
Her words startled me. “Are you sure?”
To my
muttered affirmative, she added, “Are you certain?” I made no further
reply, but fell asleep.
When I woke the following morning,
Gwinnyth was gone. It
was as if she had never been there except for the ashes in the fire ring.
What’s going on? Two
enchantresses have offered themselves, and he’s rejected both of them. He doesn’t
understand it… but we do, don’t we?
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