Elsa’s Song : The Sea-Keeper's Tale🔊

In a small village nestled between the green folds of undulating hills lived a young girl named Elsa. Born into a family of farmers, the serenity of the countryside enveloped her existence. Her world began with the crowing rooster and ended with the chirping cicadas. But unlike others, Elsa harboured a dream; a dream to escape to the vast and mysterious ocean. She had heard about it from passing travelers and wanted to witness and experience the infinity of the sea.

Yet, between her dream and its fulfillment lay the mundanity of life; working on the fields, feeding the livestock, and helping her mother with household chores. Elsa’s yearning for the sea grew with each passing day, her heart throbbed in the rhythm of the distant waves, and her dreams were full of cerulean expanses. Every night, she would look at the inky black sky splattered with twinkling stars and imagine them as reflections on the surface of her dreamy sea. It was a solace, a spiritual retreat she was yearning for. Her soul belonged not to the earth, but to the water.

Elsa's desire to see this fantastical world beyond her village met with opposition from people who couldn’t fathom her wanderlust. Yet, a solitary ally she found in her grandmother who chuckled, looking into her visionary eyes, saying, 'Go where your heart takes you.'

Gathering courage, Elsa one day left her beloved hills behind, setting forth toward her dream. An old sailor named Jack, who had often filled her ears with tales of the sea, took her under his wing. Their journey to the sea was full of song and storytelling. Hardships and rigors of the journey could not dampen her spirit, for she was at last moving towards her dream.

Her first tryst with the sea was overwhelming. The boundless blue canvas, the roars of waves, the playing dolphins, the dynamic blue, and the salty air brought tears to her eyes. She felt home; she belonged here amidst the madness and the magnificence.

Time passed. Elsa became the first woman 'Sea-Keeper.' She kept records of waters, winds, tides, and animal behaviors. Her observations were instrumental in predicting marine weather and climatic changes. Her inked drawings of sea creatures and installations made by beach waste won her accolades in the mainlands. The farmers' girl had become the ‘Sea's Songteller.’ Her tales became legend, reaching the farthest corners of the land.

Elsa lived her dream whilst remaining forever humble. She paid back the love to her hills by enriching her village with the rewards of her work. It was not her titles or praises that she relished but the freedom to live her dream.

One moonlit night, many years later, the sea was serene, mirroring the sky lit by billion stars. Elsa, now an old woman, breathed her last amidst the sea she loved, keeping the legend alive for generations to hear. And it is often said that if you stand by the shore on a moonlit night, you can still hear Elsa’s laughter mingling with sea's melodies. She didn’t just realize her dream; she lived it, loved it and eventually transformed into it.