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The best gift to win my hand. It was a game, a game my family was playing at my expense. They knew who I wanted to marry, they already knew who had my heart. But they insisted that they just wanted the best suitor for me, and I had no choice but to oblige.
My lover was strong, resourceful, courageous...and every other virtue I could think of but even still I faltered in my resolve once the gifts started rolling in. I had no idea so people wanted me. Land, jewels, even entire castles were given freely, all for the opportunity of me. If I wasn't already taken I would have been flattered.
The last day of the challenge came, and vast riches had been announced in my name. By this point everyone knew who was going to win. A man had created for me a mountain out of gold, there was truly nothing that could top that. My lover was nowhere, I had not spoken to her since the contest was announced. In my mind she had forsaken me, and was right to do to so. For what could she bring against a mountain of gold?
At sunset the gifts were accounted for and I was resigned to my fate, I had been in love once and that was alright for me. But through that cloudy sunset came my lover. No fanfare, no pomp, she wasn't even dressed for the occasion. Only simply clothed in green wilderness attire, I would have been embarrassed if I wasn't so happy to see her.
She proclaimed that she had a gift that would top anything, and started pulling something small out of her satchel. Laughter ensued from the crowd, for nothing that could fit in a sack could match a mountain of gold. It was a jar, as simple as they come. I wondered if my being given away had turned her mad.
Slowly she walked toward the dais where I stood and as more people saw the jar up close their laughter ceased, so enraptured where they of its contents. Eventually she made it to me and presented the jar, on her knees as if she was proposing. I took it and knew imminently who I was going to be handed off to. For my lover had bottled the stars.
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