The forgiveness

This is my entry for love contest!

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INFO/ DISCLAIMER :
CHARACTERS OWNED BY
ANNE LECLERC AND GALEN

Digital drawing by
Took me some time to do it because i´m a newbie to this world, altough it was very fun and soothing and i really like the results even if it isnt the best artwork, it´s by far my best!


Storyline
Galen fell in love with Anne when he ported in Land and went with his crew into a creepy town…. The crew wanted to have some fun, so Galen went with them into this little house they have heard of. The house didn’t match with the town itself because it was light color painted and it looked well treated unlike the others. Galen thought of it while stepping in. A women, who named itself Madam Julia, a little women and a little chubby, but with a beautiful smile and eyes of a falcon, always watching and evaluating (Galen think that he should be careful with what he would talk with the women), invited them promptly with small bows and huge smiles. She identified Galen has the captain, because it was quite obvious, off course and quickly sat him in a small table in the corner of the living-room ,always making chitchat talk. The guys quickly got drunk and start singing grabbing to the girls and some even went upstairs to the luxury chambers. Madam Julia clapped her hands and shouted for some quality wine which was brought in fine porcelain. After a few moments without getting more words from Galen, the chubby women retired itself and went into the kitchen shouting and putting the girls in order.
Galen wasn´t the gallant guy type and wasn´t watching the girls in the luxury brothel. The girls were, by otherwise, watching him from the distance, all laughing and deciding which would approach the awesome guy. The young captain wasn´t blind though, and the girls were beautiful, with white teeth’s and cute dresses that revealed much more bosom then he was used to see in his old town. Madam Julia did really take good care of the girls.
All the girls attempts to reach Galen´s arms went into failure. Galen wasn´t there for the fun. He sipped on his drink only nodding to the girls attempts… The smile started to turn into frustrating frowns and even loud sniffs from the girls noses.
When an old bard with a very shiny harp started to sing, Galen was thinking into retiring into the inn´s quarters. Then the bard´s apprentice started to play a flute and Galen leaned in the table to listen. All the talking seemed to end when this girl started to climb the stairs into the living room´s dais, taking the place near the musicians. The girl was barefooted, and had a tinkly ankle bracelet in both ankles. In her hands she was carrying a silver tambourine. She started playing the instrument with little bumps, and then the rhythm started to accelerated. She danced on the dais, red dress flowing in the air, bracelets tinkling and then the world seemed to stop and all of Galen´s attention was on the young girl. Sandy hair fluttering over a very soft honey skin. Rounded lips slightly open in a smile, then all open in laughs, he started to hear drums in his head following the rhythm. It may have that the other girls started to dance with the first, Galen did not know, did not care… When the dance ended, girl frozen within the dais, intense blue eyes met her gaze, a small change in hers mean that she too was staring, pupils contracted, the blue iris glowered in the small lights of the chandelier’s. A little drop of sweat rolled from the beautiful face, into a very delicate chin…..

(the rest is to be fulfilled later, let´s get into the point quickly shall we? After all, love is intense and quick, and then there´s disappointment, sometimes regret, sometimes fear, sometimes there´s nothing left….. So after great moments of intense love my history shall resume then)

Anne was her name. Anne Leclerc, she told him. Was it meant to be? No…Galen could not afford to be in love in his condition, could not be in love.. Could he?
He started to think more besides the ocean, the ship and the waves… he started to see her eyes in the sky, her skin in the ocean´s sands… His dreams were fulfilled with full rounded lips and silk skin. He always waked up covered in sweat. He started looking forward to the moments the ship would dock in the old city.
He may have committed a huge mistake to his heart, but that stuff couldn’t be controlled, otherwise he would´ve stopped dreaming in a long time by now.
When they went into the town again, eyes were waiting to see the small light painted house. Eyes were waiting, and his body was rushing. He still had his crew duties, but it wasn´t an effort for the boys to have to be in a brothel (for god´s sake, boy´s needed to have fun too in order to concentrate in the deep ocean, without any more voices then the crew…right?).
Madam Julia was in the kitchen when he entered, she rushed to reach Galen as he climbed the stairs into Anne´s sleeping room. She then grabbed his coat, tried to persuade him, but Galen´s eyes were focused…he heard noises from Anne´s room. He reached the door, opened up, Madam Julia yelled..the other girls came stepped outside their own rooms.
Galen stared only for a few seconds, then turned around with fury…Anne could not possibly had broken her promise, THEIR PROMISE. Madam Julia had guaranteed, she had! THEN WHY?
Rushing into his same inn´s chambers, he slammed the room´s door. That stupid mirror was there, reminding him the times he slept with Anne, and the times she brushed her beautiful hair with the ivory comb. That miserable times!!! And his shirt…her present… he ripped the shirt off, ripped it in pieces tossed it on the floor.
Anne rushed inside the room, she had teary blue eyes, and her honey shoulders were covered with a simple écharpe, her body with an intricate rose pink dress that didn´t cover anything…
Anne kneeled beside Galen, words of forgiveness were spoken, words of regret, and more words than Galen needed. He hadn´t said a word…his heart was teared apart. He still loved her….he was still suffering..

(I am going to do another author pause…the story can be completed later…I have to rush, because love can´t wait, love CAN wait, and will wait, but it is always in a rush…)

Galen, broken-hearted Galen, sailed acrossed the seas looking comfort in the waves, always avoiding looking at the light blue sky, always wishing for clouds and rain…
One night he dreamt, it was a strange foggy dream, and his father came into it and talk with him… “Son…” he said “ I will tell you a tale you will need to know”…the father told him Galen´s future, his future with Anne, and what would happen if he lived a life of regret and anger… Galen waked up in a jump, and all details of the father´s story slipped away from his mind…only one phrase retained…. “Love is to forgive…..”
Mind set, he made Siren turn around, made himself stare the blue sky…smiled while getting closer to his heart…

(End of the small story….if it shall be continued? Only with permission and only if she liked this small story)


PS: Even if it´s not the best, i hope i win

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