Leah

They defied the gods and earned their wrath. Waters washed over their land sinking it miles beneath the sea to languish for centuries in myth and mystery. Then emerged a mysterious woman I found floundering near the shore. She said her name was Leah and claimed she was from a land that sunk centuries ago by the gods deep beneath the sea. As the days progressed from the time, I found her this is the story she related to me. My city is one of many and my people are very old. We learnt a long time ago the key to immortality. Ours is but a simple life farming fish and seaweed for our daily feed. Over the centuries we learnt the secrets all here seek to learn, how to breath underwater and above on this land. It was while I was exploring you found me near the shore. We go out quite often just to explore this world to see if you have learnt from the mistakes we made when we defied the gods. Sadly, from what we have seen you make more than we, but I fear that unlike us you will never sink beneath the sea. Instead, your cities will crumble and you will be buried beneath your city’s waste when the buildings crumble to the ground She then rose up and moved away from my house back to the sea, as I called out her name Leah a wind came up from nowhere carrying her name away from me. Leah vanished back into the sea leaving me with only mystery. Was she from the fabled Atlantis? Was she as old as she had implied. What about the prediction for us, did I dream it all or was it an alternate reality? These questions I cannot answer, but each night I wander alone along the beach and shout her name Leah only to have the wind carry it away from me to somewhere far out to sea. 7 September 2011