Cuento Corto De Ingles The Fairy Of The Birds

The fairy of the birds

- Where do we birds come form? –ask a little sparrow to a tall spruce–

- But don´t you know it? you are a bird

- No, I can´t remember … all I know is that I had the urge to fly … to fly without stopping.

- Where do birds come from? –asked the tall sprouce to the wind–.

- They come from the clouds … at least I think so.

- Where do birds come from? –asked the wind to the clouds–.

- They come from the mountains … at least we think so. T

hen the wind began a long journey to the highest mountains, and there he asked : Where do birds come from? For all I know is that birds cannot remember it and they do not come from the trees, or the clouds and neither from me. -

Ah! –sigh the mountains– the birds come from far far away, from another world, one that only exists in the mind of a beautiful fairy named Liana.

- Please tell me mountains the legend of this fairy! And so, the mountains began their story :

I t happened many eras ago, when time didn´t exist yet, away, in a secret temple of ancient gods now forgotten there was a king named Onir and he was feeling deeply lonely, he longed for a doughter, a little princess who would enhireted the kingdom. One night the king couldn´t resist anymore and went to the temple to ask for a miracle, in exchange he would give everything he ever had if only the gods granted him his little one.

That night the ancient gods had a gathering, they knew the king was a good and honorable man and they decided to grant his wish. So the gods travelled among the stars and behind the moon and they came back with a little girl with cristaline smile and blue eyes and the king named her Liana, the little girl was the sun of the palace, she was protected by all the gods and blessed by all the constelations. For long years she made her father happy.

But one day it ocurred the king Onir was walking carelessly without watching were his feet were taking him, and he fell, fell into the nothingness , and when the gods realized about that, they didn´t let him died, they turned him into huge oceans, green fields, thick woods, hot deserts, lonely islands, great ice lands, exuberant jungles, the highest mountains and the bluest of the skies. When the princess Liana heard what happened she begged the gods to take her father backto the palace, but the gods could not do such thing, because the king had fallen in the nothingness and they could not retuned him safely.

Then the princess went back to the palace and thinking she was a very gifted fairy she had to do something to contact her father.

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