The meeting (Part 3)
Years had melted into lifetimes. The world had changed its face a thousand times. And somewhere, by a quiet shore where the sea met the wind in whispers, an old man sat watching the horizon fade into gold. Arion. His hair was silver now, but his eyes still carried the same gentle fire — the kind that burns inward, the kind that never dies. He had lived well. He had loved, created, taught, and forgiven. But more than anything, he had understood . The Last Meeting As the sun lowered, he saw a figure walking toward him — slowly, as if the wind itself was carrying her forward. She was dressed in white, simple and radiant. Her face was both familiar and new, ageless and kind. For a heartbeat, his breath caught — not in surprise, but in recognition deeper than words. It was her. Not as he remembered her in youth or in middle years — but as the essence of her, distilled beyond form. She smiled. “I told you,” she said softly, “we would meet again — when the world grew qu...