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us about
leaving our Village, she did not seem to be including me in the
plans to leave. Did she not want me to go?”

    “William, we as a people have traveled much.
In distance and in time. When Julia and Gertrude left, they not
only left the land we lived on, but they left the time period and
country.”

    “What? Where did you send our daughters to,
Ophelia? What will become of them? How could you do that?” William
spoke angrily now.

    “They are in the power, they will be fine.
Even those of one mortal parent survive, William, there was no
danger. They are living in a different century than we are tis
all.”

    “Oh, well then...” William said
sarcastically.

    It took a moment or two before William
understood. “And, what about me? Would I have survived the
adventure?”

    Ophelia looked into Williams eyes. “No,
William, you would not have.”

    “You chose to stay with me.” William said.
“Even though it meant losing your daughters, you chose me.”

    “I could not leave you, my love. Nor could I
have left not knowing what had happened to my mother.”

    “But Gertrude and Julia left. They had no
such qualms about leaving.”

    “I did not tell them what had happened. I
told them that mother was not at home when it was time to leave and
that you had went out in search of her. I know that Luna and Thelma
will survive and that they will be safe and happy with Gertrude and
Julia. I also know that I will see them again someday.” Ophelia
said, picking up Williams’s hands and holding them close to her
cheek.

    “By some day you mean after I am dead, do you
not?” William demanded.

    “I am hungry, shall we go downstairs now for
a bit to eat?”

    “Answer me, Ophelia, you cannot see your
sister or the girls again until after I am dead, for I would never
live through the travel transfer, right?”

    Ophelia nodded her head.

    “Go now, Ophelia, do not waste time with me.
Ye mother is lost to us and there is no reason for you to be left
behind with me. I beg you’re prithee, do not be betwixt worlds on
my account. Go to our children and have a happy life with them,
wife.”

    “Time is different with us, William. A time
will come when I will join my sister, Julia and the girls, but my
life, my world, is with you now. I love you and I will not be
leaving you for any reason. Now, come, I am hungry.” Ophelia said,
standing up indicating that the conversation had reached its
conclusion.

Chapter 14

    Many years had gone by and William and
Ophelia had traveled many miles and although they had spent time in
several places, when they left an area, they left no trace that
they had been there.

    They found a quiet little Village near the
seaside and for the past thirty years had been living as Izabela
and Anthony. They had made friends and although they were not
blessed with additional children, they had each other and the love
they would share eternally.

    Over the years they were there, the area had
involved into quite a busy vacation spot. Many of the smaller homes
that were there when they had first arrived had been torn down to
make way for the newer structures. Ophelia and William kept up with
the times and had purchased two newer homes over the years, modest,
cozy and most of all, private.

    When the people they had first met upon their
arrival left the area, due to either death or not being able to
keep up the payments on the ever rising rents, it helped them in a
strange way. Over time they were known as Izabela and Anthony,
husband and wife, and then Izabela and Anthony, father and
daughter. For Ophelia’s beauty was never changing.

    They were sitting in their garden on a swing
which overlooked the sea. William was deep in thought and Ophelia
was reading.

    “Ophelia,” William said to her, using the
name she had not heard in these past thirty years. “Yes,
William?”

    “Have you been happy with me?”

    “Of course, why would you ask such a foolish
question?”

    “You have given up