Derrida's tale

I found a story from this game, the trader of stories. it's about a man who loved a woman from another tribe. Sadly, the first date went wrong...

The Bells' Heart

Adapted by Nathan Hartanto

There once was a young man named Derrida. He lived in the village near the Birch forest. All women in the village loved him, but he loved a woman of the butterfly people. The Butterflies are peoples which live in the highest mountain peak, and has bright wings, from which they get their name from.

The Butterfly woman used to teach in Derrida's village school. Derrida told her his feelings through a letter because it is quite hard to reach the school, but she never answered it because that kind of love was forbidden for both Humans and Butterflies.

There was one woman from the village, the Mayor's daughter who also loved Derrida and she is jealous to the Butterfly Teacher.

Pretending to be the Butterfly woman she wrote a letter to Derrida, suggesting a meeting by the lake near the waterfall.

Derrida was quite surprised because this is the first time the Butterfly answered his letter. But because Derrida really wants to see her, he agrees and so, Derrida went there without any doubts.

They spent a whole night there together. They dance, swim, talk and eat dinner together. They also slept by the lakeside.

But, in the morning Derrida noticed his mistake. He saw the woman, still sleeping, with her jacket a bit opened, and noticed she has no wings. She is surely not the Butterfly Woman.

Torn with grief and anger, Derrida committed suicide. He tossed himself to the waters of the lake and drowned, never to be seen again.

When the Mayor's daughter woke up, She noticed that Derrida wasn't on her side anymore. She searched the forest and the lake, but when she looked down to search the lake, she stumbled across a body... Derrida's corpse.

She panicked and ran to the village. She told everyone about Derrida's suicide. She told everyone that the butterfly woman was to blame, and she accidentally watched.

Though, The night with Derrida wasn't without consequences. Soon it turned out that the girl was pregnant...

Her father, to avoid gossips was quick to marry her with someone. She never forgave herself and each year, at the same time she placed flowers and tears where her lover died.

The Mayor, until his death still doesn't know his daughter's night with Derrida. He suspected that his girl was too close connected with someone, and never suspected that she is telling lies.

Many years after people started noticing a ghost walking the shore of the lake, a ghost which resembles Derrida, and his suicidal actions, and a ghost walking the Birch forest, the Mayor's daughter, which usually placed flowers to remember her loved one.

In the graveyard, Birch forest, there was one birch that no one cared about... Derrida's birch. They don't want to remember the old butterfly woman living inside the old village school building...

It was the teacher, Derrida's loved one. On the Birch, after many days after she heard the news, she took the clapper of the school bell and on the birch tree, she placed the Bell, because Butterflies believe that a bell is a symbol the love and faith from a woman to a man.

The Butterfly woman now waits for his soul to be ascended by the gods, waiting to meet Derrida once more...

The end