Shinga's gem
...She stared at me and said in a language of clicks and whistles that I couldn�t understand let alone comprehend, with her small fuzzy faced turned up at me, looking almost longingly.
Such wide black eyes that stared as if seeing into my heart and soul and a tiny clutching hand that was wound around a small grape sized stone with reflections like a rainbow; pearly colour�s shimmering in the waning light.
The sound of deep rushing water to my right, behind the dense green and forbidding dark bark trees was where this creature had come from; what was it?
So silky smooth, small and furry; flecks of white like the glowing stars above us scattered through it�s brown coat, and a tail that flicked to and fro, bushy, and blackish brown keeping the creature balanced on its small but powerful cat-like hind legs; it was as if the tail indicated an unease within the creature, like a rabbit about to bolt.
It watched and re-guarded me, quiet and seemingly content.
I was perplexed.
"Why had it run so quick like lightning just to stop with a skid of dust and dirt in front of me to stare at me so?"
I moved back slightly from my kneeling position where I had been looking for a gem I had dropped while coming back along the forest path from gathering gems and precious stones like the moon, so white and pure, from the river bed far further down; to sit on the balls of my feet. The creatures long black fur-less ears flicked my way and one of its dainty paws twitched.
My eyes caught and held onto the rainbow stone that had been flung into the air with such speed I never noticed it until it caught the light of the raising moon and sent a ray of colour into my eyes.
I watched as it soared high and a small trail of gold light began to flicker out behind it as it started to descend towards my subconsciously outstretched hand.
Down it came with a small tingle as it hit my palm almost light as a feather with a new polished pure gold entwined silver thread strung through a tiny hole in the perfect rainbow shimmering stone.
The hole and thread had not been there before as I had caught my gaze on it when the creature had emerged. It was a necklace now of colourful light lying so light and more pure then a moon stone on my palm.
"How did it get like that from a perfectly round stone without a flaw; dent or hole in it, as it descended back down through the blistering cold air?"
I managed to tear my eyes away from the strange stone to glance, and stare into the dark night air with its long grass strands cutting from the earth as if nothing had been standing on top at all where the secretive and strange little creature had once stood.
Confused and dazed, I stood plucking the moon gems I had dropped from the ground and finding the one I had lost among them and walked back towards my dimly lit cottage made of strong tree limbs and flax hay; my cold hand clutching the rainbow stone necklace as if it meant everything in the world to me; like it was my life line.
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