Selira and the Suitcase on the Beach – The Journey

Open Suitcase on Beach with Lush Landscape Inside
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The suitcase stood there, half-buried in the sand, wreathed in shells like the guardians of an ancient threshold. To the village fishermen, it was nothing but flotsam, a forgotten piece of leather that no one paid any attention to. Only Selira remained standing before it as the sun melted like a golden eye over the sea. Her fingers hesitated at the clasps, but then she opened the suitcase – and it was no longer a container, but a gate. A stone path led through a mossy arch, flanked by flowers whose cups shimmered in their own light. A tree grew from the earth within, its roots deep in the invisible ground, its crown extending far beyond the edges. The scent of earth and strange blossoms wafted towards her. Selira stepped through. The world beyond the gate was luminous and silent. The path wound through meadows where every leaf of grass sparkled as if holding drops of pure morning. Above her stretched a sky, not blue, but of an iridescent shimmer that seemed to change with every breath. Soon she encountered the first inhabitant. A being with a body like water and eyes like little moons stood by the path. It bowed deeply and spoke as if a thousand drops were raining: "Welcome, wanderer. Few have the courage to open the handle of the trunk." Selira asked, "Who does it belong to?" "To him who went long ago," it answered. "A traveler between worlds who collected the keys of boundaries. He created trunks like this, not to possess, but to pass on. Everyone who finds it has a choice: to return or to pass on." With these words, the being dissolved in the wind, and Selira continued on. The path led her to a gate of rock, its arch entwined with a mighty tree. Beneath it stood a stone pedestal, on which words were engraved, in a language her heart understood before her eyes could decipher them: "Every threshold demands a price." She hesitated, but from the pedestal grew a bowl, empty, expectant. Selira placed inside what weighed most on her: a silver ring, her mother's last heirloom, which she had worn like a shackle. As the ring touched the bowl, the gate opened. Beyond it lay a garden, but not one like the one on Earth. Trees, their branches shining like mirrors, reflected not her face, but scenes from her life—moments she had repressed, possibilities that never happened. One mirror showed her laughing, another alone, a third old and broken. "This is the realm of the ways," spoke a voice from the branches. "The trunk shows you not where to go, but what you can carry." Selira stepped to a mirror in which she saw herself strong and upright, her gaze full of courage. As she reached out, she pierced the surface as if it were water. A crack ran through the image, and for a moment, the world trembled. fathom.

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