No Forwarding Address by Della Van Hise

Author:Della Van Hise [Hise, Della Van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic, amnesia, insanity, romantic science fiction, dystopian, empath, identity crisis, star crossed lovers, love letter romance, romantic literary fiction
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Raine stayed with Crystal for three years – until the time he left Terra in search of answers, until he came to realize that love alone could not sustain him indefinitely, despite his deepest desire for that to be a higher truth. During those three years, however, I have no doubt that Raine was finally happy. He spent his days tending the gardens around our home, conversing quietly with me and with the land, and he spent his evenings with Crystal, talking of wild creatures, lying under the black canopy of night while the stars made their eternal walk across the sky, making love. Occasionally, he would bring Crystal to our home, and there the three of us would share a quiet dinner, after which we would slip into the bedroom and sleep soundly in a bed that seemed to enjoy the addition of feminine warmth.

Crystal was one of those creatures for which there is no logical explanation. For though she would be compelled to love Raine forever, she would often express her feelings to me as well — telling me in words or images or in simple gestures that I was part of what she shared with her beloved, that I could possess her and hold her or even make love to her if I had chosen to do so. And, oh, that I could bring those times back!

I was too moralistic or as Raine once jokingly said, too frightened, for I never did more with Crystal than deep friendship would allow. We laughed at nothing in particular; we cried over the litter of pups Raine found abandoned and half-starved under the porch one morning; we slept together; and we held one another tightly when the weather turned toward winter. (And Crystal, would that we could have shared more.)

For a time, it was a safe and relatively easy life for the three of us, yet there came the day early in spring when Raine decided that he had spent enough time in Central Florida, and approached us about the possibility of relocating to another part of the country. He had always held a particular fascination for the oceans – for the rocks and the faces carved in them, and for the Pacific coastline which they guarded like sentient stone sentinels.

For myself, and I suspect for Crystal, I would have been content to remain forever in a land that had been kind to us, to stay with the small green garden and the tiny wood frame house that had seen better times, and the sound of mockingbirds singing lonely songs to a silver sky at dawn. But Raine was in our blood, and to make him happy, we both agreed to the move without so much as a major discussion. Raine informed us that he had already checked into the logistics of the matter, and that Relocation Central would permit us to move to a small flat in San Diego in exchange for three other people who would come to inhabit our home.

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