can you hear...

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"... the sound of the sea where I'm at in those shells? it's really beautiful save for the battles...

... I'll come back soon, then let's go to the beach or anywhere you want...

...miss you... "

...
thank god, thank god, I can see your face again...
finally you came back to me...


(challenge theme: SEA)
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their story has a happy ending...

Their family was originally very rich, and he and she were childhood friends and later lovers. They were meant to be husband and wife, approved by their parents...

But war broke out, the nation was in turmoil and her family was robed and killed.All died except for her...

His parents changed their mind and want him to be married to a noble, a king's relative ... but he refused and was disowned...

He married her at the age of 15, while she 14. They lived happily for one year, when he was drafted to be a marine. He told her to be strong and wait for him. He didn't want her to cry when he was not there.

Then 10 years gone by, she had always been strong and live through the darkest times. War made her a refugee, and she gradually lost things he left behind for her, and his letters never reached her. When the war ended, she came back to the town they had lived at before to look or wait for him to come back. But the only thing of him that ever came was a letter confirming his dead. He was shot and drown in a battle at the sea, they never had the chance to bring his body back.

She didn't cry... all she had was a blank expression... nothingness...

She went on living her life silently. 3 months later, she went down with a disease that was in its outbreak at the time. She continued doing what she had to to survive, until one of his comrades bring her a letter and a bag of sea shells from him.

" ... "

Now, she cries...

Now, she had remembered him...

...
I thought I've forgotten you and lost you
...
But now,
I can see your gaze, your hand your smile when you pick these for me just like when we were small again...
...
I can even hear your voice and your whisper just like when you promised we'd be together forever...
...
thank god, thank god, I can see your face again...
finally you came back to me...
...
now I'm sure we'll be together again

3 days later...


... and they were together at last...