In the quiet morning when the sun is just rising in the summer, this room is filled with light as if it were reflected, but so clean and clear that you want to dissolve into it. He gently strokes his face, wraps himself with a weightless feeling of peace, gives a smile, almost happiness.
In an hour he disappears, leaves, in the room, even if it is still sunny, but absolutely not so. The day is becoming an ordinary day, containing sorrows, joys, problems and moments of rest.
If you don't catch the first ray, you won't feel anything special - light as light, day as day.
That's why she always woke up darkened, trying to have time to touch the magic at least for a moment.
It was hard in winter when the cloud was not going to disappear, but hanging over the city, as if slowly intending to crush it with a miraculous mass. But it didn't happen as early as in the summer, of course, when a bright sunbeam came into the room and illuminated it as cleanly and gently as it did in the summer.
She tried so hard to make friends with the beam...
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We met her, of course, on the way.
She was... Special, the one, the one, the strange one.
At one of the campfires - and it so happened that the fire gathered decent people - she quietly told his story about the extraordinary sunbeam. For a short moment, silence reigned among the holidaymakers, and then someone asked:
- Why didn't you stay at home, because you were so happy there?
- Because he was gone, and her eyes were filled with tears.
Could the sun disappear?
Every traveler was surprised at the sky, where he could only see the scattering of stars. Only any star could be someone else's sun, and everyone knew it.
- And what happened to your world? - another man gave his voice to you. - If the sun is gone, then...
- No, the sun is here," she said. And now the silence is even clearer. - But that beam... It was he who disappeared. It doesn't even show up in the summer. I waited and didn't fall asleep all night to meet him, I woke up a little earlier than the sun was up, I waited patiently for a day and two and three... But he was gone.
- How did this happen? - The red-haired witch who knew how to travel on the edge of the shadows looked at her so strictly. - What was your name, child? Tell us more, why are you on the road, what are you looking for?
- Lei," she said, "for a moment. - I... I wanted to find that beam. Maybe he got lost, maybe he got caught up in other worlds? Maybe someone kidnapped him? Did he have a blade forged out of him? I will recognize him as soon as I see him. But I haven't seen anything like it yet.
- And we didn't meet him, - sighed a sigh over the fire.
It was a sad story. Lei led with her shoulder and was definitely going to add something, but she did not break the silence.
- Why would he disappear? - She was mumbling under her nose, trying to solve the riddle every second, which forced her to choose the endless roads. - Why, why did he leave me?
Maybe her love for that one ray was too strong, or maybe it was just a painful and even selfish affection, but Lay was sympathetic. A lot of people wanted to help her, but they didn't know-how. And the redheaded witch herself, having thought about it, laid out Tarot cards with fans. Time after time, the sun's harness lay on the top.
- Listen, baby," she said quietly when everyone was asleep.
Only Lei, the witch, and I stayed by the fire to keep the fire going and talk to the night.
- Cards don't lie to me or play with me, I know exactly what they're saying. And every time they convince me that your beam isn't missing. It is very close. You don't need to wonder, it's not your way. Think about it, why did you go so far from your home?
- But I don't see him," surprised Lei. - He doesn't come to me.
- Or long ago inside," the witch sighed. - Wait with us at dawn...
The witch's strange phrase didn't comfort Lay, she's probably heard something like this before. But still, she waited until dawn, not falling asleep.
At dawn, Lay was impatient. She stood up and wandered around the fire, looking at the sky.
Looking at Lei, both I and the red witch and the rest of the travelers kept silence, could have prevented some mystery, some strange shamanic dance.
In the east, the sky was pink, ... And the first sunbeam pierced the foggy valley, fell right on Lei's shoulders.
The world was illuminated by a soft and gentle glow. Everyone immediately understood what this sweet girl was talking about. She didn't take her eyes off the sun, begging silently to give her back what she wanted so much.
- You are the beam itself," one of those who traveled only at night grumbled with dissatisfaction. - Stop shining, I want to sleep.
Lei turned to him, almost in anger, but then suddenly noticed her hands radiating soft light. And I smiled.
The sun must have gone up then, or something else could have happened that made Lei so shiny. When it all went away, she was gone.
I guess I found what I was looking for. I became friends with the sunbeam.