The necklace

The necklace

Sitting at a rocky lake staring at the sky that had started to change colours she held a coffee mug full of beer. 

 

The water moved slowly in front of her as the wind made the branches at the top of the trees move. 

 

From the lake, a man emerged and when he noticed her he became water and went back into the lake. 

 

She looked at the lake then at the mug and back to the lake as she poured the beer into the ground. 

 

She got up stumbling and went into the tent. The next day when she woke up she saw the man on the other side of the lake from a small opening on the tent zipper. 

 

He lifted a bit of water with his hands and put it over an imaginary table like a cloth. 

Then he rolled it and stretched it until it was a very thin rope. 

Grabbing a rock that was close by he tied one end to it and threw it up into the sky. Then he tied the other end to a random tree. 

 

After the day was done and she was finishing eating a fish she caught earlier the fire dimmed and the man came back. 

 

The light of the moon reflected on the rope as he untied it and started to pull it. She quietly stepped onto the fire and hid behind the tent. 

 

He kept pulling the rope and as he did a few stars still moving got caught on the rope and we're coming down slowly from the sky. 

 

When he had pulled enough that the rock was back in his hand he untied it and started to roll the rope even tighter over the table. 

 

After a few minutes, the rope and the stars had become a necklace. He put it in the lake for her to fish in the morning.