Silly, our very own silly... Discarded by her friends, and rejoiced in her dreams.. she stood on the doorway of Lilly.. Lilly our very own Lilly... Discarded by the village and rejoiced by her magical world......
Lilly was a witch and Silly was a kid. Lilly was very old and she hated kids, and hadn't called Silly at her place. It was the not-so-deft mind of Silly, and sparkles in her eyes, which attracted Lilly to her.
Silly had eyes with elves dancing in them. Invisible elves, only visible to Silly, and ones who could see through the invisible cloak of elves,ones who considered blunt as gentle and spectacular, ones who could sit, wait, and wait, to watch the heavenly miracle of tranquil eyes of a not-so-bright girl light up with the bright dance of elves.
Silly lacked mercury in her. She lacked brightness. And she lacked friends.She was so full of Venus. And nobody knew about the dance of elves in her eyes. Nobody knew Venus-ian magic around dance of elves, because nobody thought much of Silly. Silly as she was. Still and Silly.
There was this one full moon night, when Silly was standing at her window-sill, and Lilly was on hunt of Venus-ian earth, when she spotted Silly. Silly was brimming with Venus-ian light. And Lilly spotted elves dancing in her eyes. And there was moon in her eyes, elves dancing around the moon. Venus-ian light was illuminating the dance of elves in her eyes. Lilly was awestruck. The blunt and unadulterated aura of Venus around Silly. While rest of earth-lings used mercury to communicate with Silly, Lilly found the blunt aura of Venus dazzling. She connected instantly with Silly. She was drawn to Silly.
Lilly had so much Saturn in her.. So much Saturn and so much Jupiter... And she had cast a spell on Mercury, and thrown it away, Mercury and its jostling energy was too much of an annoyance for her. Mercury-the frivolous prince charming, in words of Lilly.
Lilly realized that Silly's Venus-ian aura had not been contaminated by the influences which Mercury could have brought with it. And Lilly could use a little bit of that aura for her new magical potion. But lack of mercury prevented her from establishing a contact with Silly. Lilly tried her witch craft, and threw one of her invisible Saturn-nian ring on Silly.
The Saturn-nian ring was too heavy for delicate Silly. She crashed on her floor. Elves in her eyes ran around looking for safe corners, and Venus stopped brimming. Mercury, which had for so long hidden itself from fangs of Lilly, ran to rescue Silly from Lilly's witch-craft. And Silly cried for help.... for the first time in her life, Silly spoke!! She spoke, she wailed, LOUDLY for help... Mercury threw all its energies on Silly to rescue her from Lilly's chains... But nobody in the world knew it was Silly who was shouting, they could hear a girl, but they did not know it was Silly, they had never heard her speak!! Before they could decipher that those were cries from Silly's room, and it was Silly who was ACTUALLY shouting, she was taken away by Lilly.. into the depths of doom... and just like that Silly was gone. And she stood on the doorway of Lilly.
Lilly was furious!!!! Mercury had almost managed to contaminate aura of Silly.. Oh that stupid stupid Mercury!!! How dare it mingle itself in magic made by Lilly!!!!
Silly stood on the doorway of Lilly's hut. Lilly's hut was an ordinary one, much like old ruins. Lilly was perpetual. She belonged to past, and wished to control the future. She could survive future, but she had survived past. She did not long to survive, she wished to control. Her hut was full of journals, and magical potions. Lilly wished to teach other Earth-lings lessons for being so jovial, so talkative and so greedy. She wanted to teach them how to be learned and wise, and hoped that after her lessons they would stop wasting their energies in leisure. And now she had found Mercury to teach a lesson. Mercury wouldn't even dare to step anywhere near Lilly's reign.
And now there was this dumb girl standing on her door. Lilly reached out her hand and gently dis-tangled the Saturn-nian chains from around the girl. So Silly stood up. With huge Saturn-nian chains on her delicate shoulders, she fell again... Lilly made those chains lighter by her magic. But Silly's Venus refused to brim. Venus of Silly was in enemy territory of Jupiter of Lilly. It could be either Venus brimming, or it could be Jupiter teaching. The night was about to end, and with the dawn Lilly's energies began fading. Lilly's magic was more or less limp during daytime. During daytime, she fed birds, tendered plants, read journals and prayed. During night she practiced her tricks and powers.
And Sun was rising, Sun illuminating the surroundings, Sun lighting up the world around Lilly's hut. Silly stood up, marks on her body made by Saturn's chains began healing slowly, and Saturn-nian chains getting lighter in their weight... as sun soared up and away from the horizon, Silly got healthier and chubbier. Her rosy cheeks began reflecting the glow of morning's light. Lilly bowed to the morning Sun. Venus in Silly, Jupiter and Saturn in Lilly bowed to the king Sun.
Silly moved away and out of the hut and looked around. She felt Lilly's hut was like ancient remains of some glorious past in lands of heaven. Her Venus away from Jupiter's territory had begun brimming again. There was no moon in her eyes, but elves began dancing, spectacular surroundings made them dance. Silly wondered how well Lilly could dance, she must have been dancing for years in these alluring settings. Lilly was away feeding morning birds. Lilly would be away for a long time, till she was done feeding birds of the sky...all birds she could see.
With king Sun, came the prince Mercury-tripled in its strength, it was with the mighty king. It had forgotten Silly for many moons and many winters. Poor Silly, she made such a brave sight with Saturn-nian chains on her shoulders. So young and tender, and yet so accepting, never complaining.... just mesmerizing.... Mercury could no longer ignore Silly. And he blessed her. Silly spoke again. She spoke to her elves... They danced and danced around Lilly's hut.. They danced and Venus in Silly made them dance more... they danced till they had re-built Lilly's hut. A beautiful hut, no longer a mismatch in beautiful surroundings. Silly asked her elves to direction to her house, they took her back home.... And thus Silly was back at her home... Silly, no longer dumb, Silly who had elves dancing in her eyes, Silly with a beautiful voice and a magical vision. Silly the bright bright girl, with Venus-ian beauty.... Silly the much admired Silly... Everybody wanted to name their daughter Silly...
Lilly was back to her hut.She was startled, at the sight of beautiful house, and abundant Venus-ian earth which was sprinkled all over... it was slightly contaminated by Mercury.. but Lilly knew how well to churn her potions.. Lilly looked around for Silly.. no sight of her.. the little girl must have lost her way in jungle, thought Lilly, and went inside the house. She opened the journal which told tricks to make the controlling magical potion. The journals looked similar, but read different. They talked about medicine recipes to cure diseases. They no longer talked about the dreamy destructive magical potions. They gave wisdom about beauty of life. Lilly had always followed her journals blindly. They had Jupiter's wisdom... Lilly followed her journals blindly again... And gradually Lilly grew in fame as a magician with healer's touch and life saving potions. Magician adding beauty to life.
Up in the sky faraway... King Sun sat with his wife queen Moon, smiled at the world, and said to his wife.... "Don't you think Earth-lings should trust us more, so that we can do something good with their lives?? Just look at this Silly and Lilly, I wished everybody else had similar trust in us..."
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ReplyDeleteFirst of all Silly and Lilly create utter confusion that I lost all charm in first few paragrpahs ! Second.. too much of UNIVERSE there. And it looks that I will have to give a second reading or may be third or fourth to fully grasp this..! All paper planes going aboove my head.
ReplyDeleteHey!!! Thanks for stopping by... I experimented with astrology and its concepts in this story... if you did not get much.. its OK :)
DeleteAmazing, I think :) Plz enlighten me with the Solar system analogy used here...I didn't get the mercury one...but as always ur experiment seems to hav charmed me with tz Saturn rings.. keep mesmerizing us :)
ReplyDeleteAs always, you are extremely generous with your compliments :)
Deleteif you go by basics of astrology, Mercury is the planet which controls your communication skills, Jupiter controls your wisdom and higher learning, Saturn rules your karma, and Venus rules your sense of beauty, art and materialism... :)
DeleteRead your story, Silly lilly wali...cudnt get it the first time :) then read it backwards...tab samajh me aayi,
ReplyDeletethoda zyada faith dekhaya hai astronomy me :) ...but it was very well written.
I read it today.. I liked it.. so much of imagination.. i imagined the story as if I am watching an animated movie (in 3D :P)..
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