Once there was a girl named Annua. Annua was a bright girl, a quick thinker who loved to read and explore life. She was fair skinned, with light colored hair and eyes. And a smile that could make a gray sky blue. Annua also had a sister, Tessa.  Tessa was the dark to Annua’s light. She was the same as her sister but for one thing. Tessa spoke truths that Annua feared never to admit. Tessa would stand by her sister in only the light of the moon and firelight. But was always there in heart. Tessa loved her sister dearly, and Annua felt the same. The sisters told each other everything, but Annua had a secret that she kept hidden away.
Upon entering the summer of  their twentieth year the sisters decided to take a trip to a far away place. They went to see the ocean. Traveling by night they made their way through the country side avoiding the villages of people. Until one early morning just before sunrise they made it to their resting place. They could hear the waves crashing the surf but could see nothing. Until the sun came up and Tessa disappeared. Annua lit a torch and her sister appeared once again. “Sister, we made it!”, Annua exclaimed. With this the girls were whelmed, tears of joy on their faces so they danced and laughed as the sun continued to rise. And there they laid their heads to sleep for they were very tired from their travels. Soon the torch went out and Tessa once more disappeared.
Annua awoke soon after noon. Being hungry she decided to go to the village for food despite Tessa telling her that the Village would bring only hardship between the two of them. In the village market Annua met a man unlike any she had met before. In her eyes he was beautiful. She talked to him for what seemed like hours, until he invited her to his house. Upon entering his house Annua put out the candle’s light before her sister could even appear. She stayed with him that night.
The next day the man asked Annua to stay with him, so they could be lovers. She agreed and he left for the village market. Soon Tessa appeared with the warmth of the fire in the fire place. “Sister,” she said, “did I not tell you that the village brought unwanted hardship? Were we not happy before?” Annua ran from the room into the darkness where her sister could not follow. She cried tears of grief but soon the man returned with words of love and endearment.
The following days Annua continued to stay in the dark from her sister. In the brief moments of fire light she could still hear Tessa crying “Sister, why do you leave me so? Were we not happy before?” But soon Tessa’s voice grew weaker and fainter. Once Annua cried out back to her sister, “happy is not the issue dear sister, loneliness is. With him I feel a love that I have never felt before. If he was to know about you he would cast me away as wicked! I cannot be with out him! I love him!” and she ran from the room and wept in sorrow. By the end of fall, Tessa was dead.
Over the Winter Annua started to fall to the darkness. Her heart been pulled in two, One half with her rotting away, the other dead with her sister. The man left her in the spring saying she was no longer his love for she had changed from the woman he had met in the market but half a year ago. Annua continued to fall. One day she left the village to go to where she had left Tessa, by the ocean that day. She sat there and watched the sunset and wept silently through the night. Upon sunrise she new that she would not live. She heard her sister calling her through the waves, accepting her back and forgiving her for what she had done. Annua walked into the waves. And with the sea they were happily together once more.