Wisdom came calling early this morning. We embraced; as lovers are want to do.
“When Mother learned you and I were to be married, she prepared a blue room for you. It required a quarter of a million. Come; let me show it to you.”
Wisdom led me to the back of my house by way of the south. As we turned the last corner from the south side to west side, I could see the path has wanted ware. I have not been of late on that side of my house. She led me to a door halfway the distance. I did not recall a door being there.
As she opened the door, she indicated I was to precede her down the stairs. Dust, dirt and cobwebs greeted me. The passage was narrow and the stairs were steep. I stumbled over obstacles littering the way. I thought there must be an easier way. As I wormed my way down, my hand rested on an old tool. I held it up.
”Look what I found, Wisdom. I lost it long ago. I have often wondered what happened to it.”
As I spoke, it turned to dust. The remains fell behind the stairs.
As we reached the bottom of the stairs, we stepped into a masonry hallway. Through an open door on the right, I saw the furnace, water heater, pipes and other appurtenances necessary to operate my house. Wisdom directed me to a door on the left, at the end of the hallway. She opened the door and motioned me in.
I stepped into a blue room. It was a perfect cube, the length, the breath and the height being the same. The walls, ceiling and floor were all mid blue.
Cloaks, coats and other articles of clothing hung on the west wall. Straight ahead a sink was mounted on the east wall. A child stood on a stool, washing his face. Another child, whom I sensed, but not see, was somewhere in the room. Warmth radiated from the intense light emanating from the middle of the room. No other objects were visible.
I approached the child at the sink from behind and took him into my arms. I held him tight to my breast.
“How do they sustain themselves?” I questioned Wisdom.
Then I saw the child's face. It shook me to core of my very being.
It was an ancient face, the likes of which I have never seen. Yet, in some way the face seemed familiar.
“When we are married, we will adopt the children and they will live with us,” Wisdom stated.
At that, Wisdom left me. I remained in the blue room holding the child with the ancient face, contemplating the gift Mother gave me. In time, all faded before my eyes. I was filled with the assurance of our impending marriage and the uniting of our children.
And the two shall become one.
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