happy...  Their colours shine under the sun, as if they never knew my chamber... As if, you’d think, they won’t ever enrich it...”
“I am now their happiness, small butterfly!
I, and I alone.”


He turned towards her side. His look met her look.
“Accept” he said to her.

“I  promise,  day  by  day  you  will  forget  our  little agreement...
And then, sorrowless, you will continue to live in my full-bloomed gardens.”


He came up to the top of the round staircase.
He stopped at his castle’s first, and perhaps last step and turned again to look at her.

“Day by day you will also forget, small butterfly...”


         “...Everyone forgets...”