They were still sitting in the tea room, Belle and Domi. “Why don’t we leave them here to have their talk, my dear? We can come back later and check if they’re alright,” King Evan had said to his wife and Queen in a whisper as the young new couple held hands. “Yes. I think you’re right, my dear. Let’s do just that, she said and quietly walked out with her husband, trying to go unnoticed not to break the moment for them. “I’m ready,” Belle had said too. “I would like to have that conversation soon… and I believe I have a few things to say as well,” she smiled at him shyly. “Then right now is probably the best time, right?” he said softly. Keeping her hand in his, he guided her to the balcony table, opened the chair for he

The ship went full sail after leaving Sicily, and now the number of stops was reduced, and the waters were calmer. If things remained that way, and they didn’t get another storm, they would be in their final destination sooner than they expected. Captain Nankov went to check for Dom, since there had been a few hours and the man was nowhere to be seen, and he was actually surprised to find Dom in a deep, uncomfortable sleep, from which the captain made an effort to wake him up. Not just uncomfortable, at some point it looked like he was in pain.Lazar helped the captain move the dreamer gentleman, and they shook, called, screamed and even threw water at him, but nothing worked, and now they were trying to pass him to another bed, since his bed, Dom's, was now wet with the water they tried to wake hi

“Why did you do this to us, Diwa? Why do we need to go through this now? You know how I get so anxious. I don’t think he will understand that you keep talking to a voice in your head, especially when you’re nervous, and I couldn’t be more nervous!”Diwa tried to control her nerves the best she could, but her heart and mind were racing to an unfamiliar speed out of her control.“We’ll be ok, you’re just the way I try not to be so shy, now please let me finish dinner, or he will have a crazy lady that can’t cook dinner,” she answered in her head.“We’re not crazy though, just lonely…”“Then what are you worrying about?”“I don

Belle was sleeping. Her breathing was deep and calm. Her chest raised often enough, and not even the disturbances around her, people talking or even accidentally moving her, thinking that she was awake, had changed that.It was many, many hours already too, that she had been asleep. More than twelve. Almost a day, actually, of continuous sleeping, and she didn’t seem to be close to waking up. A few days before, her father received a telegram from Dr. Stoev, letting him know that, if everything went well, he’d be arriving in a week and a half to two weeks, from the day he sent the note, that was about three, four days before. Being too optimistic, in a week the doctor, specialized in his daughter’s disease, would arrive… But was it possible that she resisted for that long? 

“Possibilities and fears don’t make life. Life is made of choices,” suddenly Annabelle said.“True… Partially.”As the very, very big, white fish swam slightly closer, a white mist could be seen swimming, or maybe, more like floating, around the young woman, that could easily go unnoticed. It had not been noticed by Annabelle herself, since it was not exactly physical, but…Could a shadow be white?“But you can’t tell me, that I have known you for so long that you don’t want to take what has been offered to you. Make your family happy, and be happy yourself,” the voice said once more, and then, Belle noticed something very interesting…That thing that