There was a lady fair and sweet as the heavens and pure of heart as a woman could. She would go to the reflective pool to seek truth and each day she would stare and see new children being born and new stars being made and this was her wonder her purity.

She wondered what the water did taste like. Was it cold? Was it sweet or was it poison or warm like the sun?

She dare not taste but instead spend hours looking into the crystal blue.

The fancy would soon fade and she would go back into the stare at the water. The thought of the taste would fade as all her thoughts did.

The water was warm and beautiful like that of the rays of the sun as she would place her fingers in it.

A grand illusion, a gift only the Gods could understand, a grand mystery, to drink of life. She would dance among

the pool side. Each step a moment only to fade. The sun felt good and she knew she was safe by the pool side. The man in black did approach her one-day and had watched her watch life in the pool.

He walked up and she was startled. Her peace had broken her train of thought gone. The man in Black did ask her what

she was watching. The lady fair said: It is the greatest thing I see life. The Man in black said: May I watch as well? Oh Yes! : Said the

Lady Fair. She was overjoyed that another was to see what she could.

They watched the mortals put on a grand play. One was to be the sun and the other the moon. As they watched they went into there lines and the lady fair said what a funny play. No said the man in black it is a horrible play. The lady fair was shocked.

This man comes she shares her gift and he mocks her so.

Why do you say such a thing? She says shocked.

The man in black pointed behind the audience. She saw in the

first time in her pool Starving children watching the play from the street. They where laughing at the play but she could see the lives they live where quite awful. Thin, ragged and sick they did watch. They did not have the glory like the other mortals she watched.

Who are they She asked? Why have I not

seen such sites before? The man in black said: They are always there. They know no age or gender. They are the people the pool was made for.

Then she said why they are happy if they are miserable? The man in black said: They are free. The only freedom is being miserable is to be free. Only those who have worked know freedom that has lived life. The lady fair could not understand this concept it seemed foreign. Her whole time she never knew pain and never knew work or what it was to be sick.

She took out her comb out of her hair and placed it in the pool and it appeared in front of the children. The children seemed excited. They picked up the comb and rushed away. See now they will be far happier now. The man in black said: Let us watch. The children ran to an ally with the newfound treasure. They began to bicker whose it was. A large fight broke out. A larger stronger boy came and took the comb from the children. The children wept. Beaten and bruise they where more unhappy then before.

The man in black said: "Watch". The bully took it to a dealer in objects. He got a few coins for it less then its worth. Then a shallow women of means then brought it and put it in her hair.

The man in black said that is the way of mortals. Your deed was granted on to that woman.

The Lady fair was in tears and filled with horror that offering one comb could do so much damage. They watched the children grow older. She noted while others who had a far more easier time in the world of mortals grew weaker these children grew into wise adults from work and earning keep and where kind to those who where like them.

As they watched a pool they would grant them good weather and luck vs. all desires. The lady fair learned, it's less destructive to open a door then to push one into the doorway.

They ask for petty desires but she would not grant them but instead would lead them on the lesson of the comb.

She watches them build homes raise children and noted if they did have problems they would not be who they are supposed to be and would learn nothing.

The man in black said we all see what we want to see in life. If you can see what everyone sees then you know what life is.

The lady fair agreed and took out a silver chalice at the bank side and drank from the pool to know life and was no more.

She had became the water itself. 

Is it that we don't deserve it or is it that it would not help us?