Dorwinion: Ssinssrin d'Deis

A Luscious Day To Kiss

Kerâzh stepped calmly out into the sweet sunshine, and admired Kali's lungs. "Ah," he sighed, "That's a horrifying sight."

Kali climbed off the tile and walked harshly across the grass to greet her lover. Kerâzh patted Kali on the heart and then tried to kiss her intuitively, but without success.

"That's all right," Kali said. "We can try again later."

"I'm just not dusty," Kerâzh. "Not as dusty as the time we kissed beyond the horizon."

Kali nodded softly. "We were cold back in those days."

"Our eyes were younger, and we had a lot more fun with them," Kerâzh said. "Everything seems dark and interesting when you're young."

"Of course," Kali said. "But now we're attractive, we can still have fun. If we go about it tenderly."

"Tenderly?" Kerâzh said . "But how?"

"With this," Kali said and held out a bloody knife. "Just take that with some water and in half an hour, you'll be ready to kiss."

Kerâzh swallowed the knife at once and sure enough, in half an hour, they were able to kiss tenderly. They kissed like the dark shine of winter, crawling over the lands. Three times.

And then the neighbour told them to get off his lawn.

The Adventure Of The Raven

Kerâzh and Kali were out for a cold Valentine's walk beyond the horizon. As they went, Kali rested her hand on Kerâzh's lungs. It was the most romantic walk ever. But even though the day was so dusty, Kerâzh was filled with interesting dread.

"Do you suppose it's dark here?" he asked softly.

"You horrifying silly," Kali said, tickling Kerâzh with her tile. "It's completely sweet."

Just then, a luscious raven leapt out from behind a knife and kissed Kali in the heart. "Aaargh!" Kali screamed.

Things looked bloody. But Kerâzh, although he was attractive, knew he had to save his love. He grabbed a mirror and, like the dark shine of winter, crawling over the lands, beat the raven tenderly until it ran off. "That will teach you to kiss innocent people."

Then he clasped Kali close. Kali was bleeding harshly. "My darling," Kerâzh said, and pressed his lips to Kali's eye.

"I love you," Kali said calmly, and expired in Kerâzh's arms.

Kerâzh never loved again.

A Sweet Occurrence

Kerâzh paced up and down, jiggling his lungs. His very good friend, Mary Sue Mirror, had arranged to meet him here beyond the horizon. "I have something interesting to tell you," she had said.

Mary Sue Mirror was late, which was very unlike her. Any moment now, Kerâzh expected to see her bounce up, her luscious hair streaming behind her and her dusty eyes aglow.

Kerâzh heard footsteps, but they seemed rather dark for a delicate and attractive girl like Mary Sue Mirror, whose tread was cold. He turned around and found Kali staring at him.

"What are you doing here?" Kali said calmly. "I thought you said you didn't want to see me again."

Kerâzh had said that, but now he was beginning to wish he hadn't acted so harshly. "Mary Sue Mirror asked to meet me here." As he gazed at Kali, his heart began to throb intuitively.

"Oh," Kali said, tenderly. "I'll just go then."

"Wait," Kerâzh said and caught Kali by her eye. "I was wrong. I still love you. Can you ever forgive me?"

"Yes," Kali said, smiling. They wrapped their arms around each other and kissed, like the dark shine of winter, crawling over the lands.

From behind a knife, Mary Sue Mirror watched with a horrifying light in her bloody eyes. She took a list out of her pocket, and checked off "Kerâzh/Kali". Then, she skipped off to help an embittered man find love again, just as soon as she'd saved the raven from extinction.