The title of my story is still unknown but im settled on the basics concerning the details of it. Lets start with a purpose, the purpose of my story is to add.I want to add up to my knowledge about this world by doing something different and new. i want to explore this world in a new way and, having people share my journey would motivate me to explore even more. Now about the story, the time and set are in an imaginary world. the reason behind that is my feeling that we here-in Egypt and in whole Africa - live in a whole different time and set that they call us ''the third world''. well, allow me to take you to a fourth world!
Anyway, the time differs than ours but is somehow similar. Like there are days, weeks and months.4 seasons and years. but they count differently, like every two sunrises is a day. they welcome their feasts and seasons like here but with different customs. The world they live in is spiritual. They very much value life in all its forms. they have less conflicts than the ones this world has witnessed.
As for the people, they divide into clans and when a number of clans unite under one flag they are called a nation.
Every clan has some kind of a special gift and a weakness, and same as here, they subject to the ''survival for the fittest'' law.
And so, they decided to join forces in order to share their gifts and cover each other's weaknesses.
Every nation has its lord-the ruler-He is to be chosen depending on how popular and distinguished his clan is among other clans.There is, however, a law which obligates this leader to be married into a different clan other than his.
The rule was meant so as new generations with new gifts and potentials would be formed.And as the leader is somehow a role-model to the whole nation he should-or rather must- choose a foreign bride.
The little family which im focusing on is the Lord's family, the lord of one of the nations.
The lord is from the Illyria clan.
The clan is famous for many things.One astonishing fact about the illyrians is, that they are born with cotton-white hair and as they grow older, it turns black!
The lord's wife, Lena, is from the floga clan.The clan is famous for it's obsession and strong attachment to the ground beneath them.
It is said that it took the clan a whole century to move to the new nation and leave their home land. When an illyrian lord married a flogian princess they blessed their world with four unique girls.
Their names are ; Hind, Summer,Noor and finally Janna.Each and every one of them ,differs from her sister and from her parents however, Noor is somehow like the lord, her father, in many ways while janna is the spitting image of her mother.
What's remarkable about the girls is that each one of them resembles one of the four nature elements.
Noor would resemble the light and wind (cuz of the fact that noor means light in arabic u see) , Summer resembles the passionate flames of fire and volcanoes as they erupt some times and cool down, which explains her hair that catches fire and ignite in red and heat then cools down turning into black again. Janna resembles the confident earth and all its nature including animals and trees . and at last, Hind resembles the pure calm yet unstable waters.
You can notice their elements in their looks and somehow their characters. In this world of theirs, only women could be so gifted withe bizzare powers while men have the ability to control these powers but they can never posses it. History,however, has witnessed half a dozen of men who actually came on equal footing with very gifted women in their powers, but they are now merely legends.
Our girls are gifted to some extent but i wouldn't say they are the best, there are many like them.
What's rare about them is how they all are daughters of the same father and mother, as usually, two individuals couldn't have so many gifted children with such powers like the girls. not to mention how distinctive their powers are . so basically they are a rare case.
It's worth mentioning the suffering of a pregnant woman when she gets pregnant with a gifted child. the fetus absorbs much of her energy and at some extreme cases, endangers the mother's life.
Lets talk about the personalities of my beloved characters.
First let's start with the father. after seeing what he looks like and knowing that he's the lord of his nation, and the dear father of our four daughters (yes, they are my daughters too) lets take a close look inside him.
His name is zain -or zayn either way- and he is a proud person, intelligent and caring.He is somehow an ideal leader putting the nation's priority over anything else. So much that this quality of his could be a weakness in itself.
In the story we will be seeing how zayn will face a situation where he would have to choose between what's right for his family and what's right for his nation.
Now i want to talk about how he met his beloved wife.
In their world, women don't walk about having their heads uncovered.It's a custom same as the one in the arabs region.
So the rightful leader was one day wandering about in his kingdom, checking how things are running when his eyes fell on this decent looking lady selling accessories and scarfs for women, and all kinds of rich and prosperous ladies gathered around her, bargaining and buying from her, and right next to this bunch of happy women was another lady, looking like them but not interested in what they saw a precious treasure.
But rather, holding a basket, an empty one.
The leader was curious, he was thinking ''if she isn't interested in jewels, then what might catch this noble lady's eyes?''
And of course the respectful leader couldn't possibly stop to ask another respectful lady about her interests, However, this respectful leader CAN actually follow (stalk!) her till he knows what or where is the place where she keeps her interests in. And so began her journey and the leader's -in disguise- journey too.
She made many stops, speaking with many store owners such as the herbalist, the grocery's, the butcher's ...etc. The weird thing is to see a fine lady doing ordinary shopping. ''There should be some kind of servants to do this for her!'' , or so the leader thought to himself. Interesting fact is, the basket stayed empty after all these stops she made, the only thing which was added at the very end was, a single jasmine twig with some flowers on it.
Now zayn is becoming more curious than ever! , wanting to know just about anything about the woman. may it be her name or the name of her clan.
It was getting darker and he lost hope of knowing anything about her when she entered a tea house and stayed there for over an hour.
And there is our Zayn, left with no hope, walking himself to his house (and yes people, the leader has a normal house like all the other civilians, no need for fancy palaces) regretting not hearing a name or seeing any sign that he could use to track her down and know this one lil' interest of her's.
And oh man, the leader grew restless trying to know, why is this particular woman different from the others .
A single man can get his mind occupied with such nuisance i know.
So one day, he was at a garden where he cools his head off and just relax with his books when he saw a woman with her golden-blond hair sitting under a tree and sitting next to her a very familiar basket.
Yes! it's the basket he followed that whole other day to see it filled with just one puny twig. It's our stalked lady reading peacefully under the trees.
And i must say at this point, if it weren't for the basket, zayn wouldn't probably have recognized her, as it was the first time he saw her with her hair.
The leader watched her from afar, watched how she spoke to her book and giggled at it almost as if she was crazy. But still, he refused to judge her by looks and continued watching till she stood up, went near a jasmine bush, picked a twig from it and wished she could come back to that garden again and then left.
For some days, she kept on coming to that garden and so did the leader, and there he sat, hidden and watching her, not knowing why is he doing this or is it wrong to spy at someone like that or if he will ever get out of his shell and and talk to her.
But there he sat ever day for some time until one day he came and didn't see her at her usual place, and started searching the garden for her until he heard a sound from behind saying ''So you finally decided to show your face''.
And when he turned , there he saw her standing some meters away, crossing her hands as if she'd waited long enough for this moment, and then she went again saying ''You know the grounds hide no one, i could feel you sitting far there every single day without letting a breath or ever introducing yourself, what is it that you want??". Zayn standing out of words, asking himself should he start with an apology or a proper introduction.
Then he broke the awkward silence with an apology, justifying that he had never seen anyone other than himself in that far big garden, and that he got a little curious -little he says- .
The lady answered him with a laugh that didn't seem to have an end to it, making our poor Zayn sink in a bottomless ocean of embarrassment. She then stopped to tell him that SHE is the one that is so curious to know what on earth had gotten to the leader's mind making him shy and hiding in bushes but curious enough to come and do that every single day! And upon hearing that she was the reason she was out of words too but unlike our leader, when she's nothing to say, she hysterically laughs.
Then she introduced herself, saying that she's from the Floga clan, which explained to Zayn her ability of finding him out.
And in that same garden, they kept meeting and and talking for hours and hours, discovering that that they might differ in many ways but that at the same time they suit each other perfectly .
And so the leader gave Lena's family the honor of proposing to her and the family accepted with pleasure and that's how the cute couple met each other.