Alchemy

     

          I knew I shouldn’t go, but it called to me like a siren. Rowing my boat across the calm sea, climbing the cliffs, I couldn’t find the beacon of light. Looking for some semblance of a door, or a building, it appeared only rock and earth at my feet. Suddenly without warning a chasm opened up and I tumbled like on slide down.

Picking myself up at the bottom I saw a strikingly handsome man (his hair long dark and flowing) with a ladle moving it back and forth as if stir the pot.

“How did you get by my wards, Aurelia?” he asked.

“What are you doing, Jonathan?” I asked.

“Alchemy,” he answered,” The ultimate magic, isn’t it? Besides I need some cash.”

“Would you like some assistance?”

“Are you insinuating a man, can’t do what a woman can do?”

“Of course not!” I kidded, “The spell is almost right; but you must promise never to share this ingredient.”

“Fine.”

         I added the key ingredient then stirred the pot and the magic within roared, soaring a green light into the sky. I said the incantation and poured the waiting trays making gold into ingots.

Jonathan has pleaded with me to stay. Apparently I’m not just decorative! I decided to give him another chance; but he’s been warned to treat me with respect. I think he’ll do that, now that he’s seen how much magic I’ve held back. Someone always has the power in the relationship and that is mine.

©Sheilagh Lee  October 14 2018