Vasile! Vasile! Please come to me! I need you to stay
with me!, Vastella screamed in her sleep as she tossed and turned hanging onto
the burning memories of her fiancee, Vasile. She awoke in sudden shock and sat
straight up in bed looking around the room and gasping for air. She didnt want
to do this anymore. Waking up from nightmares of her dead lover was just too
painful. It wasnt fair. And to top things off, she was also alone. All Alone.
No family. No friends. Nobody. Vastella climbed off of her bed and put on her
flowing skirt and peasant top. As she reached for her headband, her hand
brushed her Taroka deck. She pulled her hand away as she felt the burning of
the cards. They were trying to tell her something. Anytime the cards wanted to
show her something they grew hot to the touch. Vastella ignored the beckoning
heat of the deck and put on her headband. She decided to take a walk and clear
her thoughts before something else went wrong. Could her life really be this
awful when just a short time ago it was near perfect? Yes, of course it could
be that bad. After Vasile left, things just werent the same anymore. She lived
in constant fear that she would die alone and nobody would ever know the truth.
The truth about that fateful day. She never meant for Vasile to die. In fact,
she tried to protect him.
If only I had just let him go to the city..No thats not
true..The cards never lie..They never lie..He was meant to die. The cards told
me. They grew hot. Nothing would have changed that. I just wish I couldve done
more, she thought to herself. It wasnt fair. My band shouldnt have deserted
me when I needed them most. I know I shouldnt have drew the Taroka cards for
Vasile but he was my lover. I didnt mean to hurt anyone. Really..especially
not Vasile..
But that was the past. She couldnt live with the Vistani
anymore and she just had to accept that. If that was the way it was meant to
be, she would follow the rules. She didnt want to hurt anybody else like she
did the first time.
She sat down among a grove of trees and buried her head
in her hands. There she sat for hours just sobbing and wishing things had went
differently. There was no one she wanted more right now than Vasile. If he was
here, he would comfort her when she was sad. He would hold her when she felt
unsafe. He would love her just because she meant that much to him. And she
would love him for the same reason. Drying her tear stained eyes, she came to
the conclusion that life just wasnt worth living anymore. She ran back to her
home and unfolded the cloth that held her Taroka deck. She felt the cards
searing her hands but still she held on. She wanted to know what the message
was. The new message. Maybe the most important one. The cards had never seared
her flesh like that. They usually just burned a little bit. But her hands were
numb from the pain of the deck. She closed her eyes and within moments a
premonition came to her.
What she saw shocked her:
She saw herself alone in the woods at nighttime. She felt
a presence in the woods and turned around only to see a pack of wolves staring
menacingly at her. She knew in her heart that this would be the end of it all.
Her pain. Her sorrow. Even her life. As she looked over to the left, she saw
something. No someone. She turned and was faced with the ghost of Valise. Her
lover.
The next instant, the premonition was over and she was
walking. She didnt know how she had ended up outside but she knew where her
feet where taking her. To the woods. Where she had met Valise for the first
time in their younger years. She felt the presence she had felt from the
premonition and knew that he was coming. The wolves didnt even scare her.
Vastella wanted only to see her Vasile. And she did. He came for her and
together they floated into the moonlight. Her fiancee. Her savior. He had come
for her and now life in the heavens with him would be better than life on earth
without him. 
