Abraham

“I can do it” Abraham grumbled to himself as he looked onto the other side of the canyon. His eyes trailed down in the gap. He was determined to do it out of pure spite alone. A thought came. What if I fell down there, but he ignored it as quickly as the thought came. He walked back a couple feet and started running, he leaped off into the air. Halfway through the air he realized he wasn’t going to make it. He reached his arm out trying to grab onto the ledge, but he was too far away to reach it and his descension began.
He was falling, he was panicking. He didn’t know what to do. For some reason the thought to just fly back up didn’t come to him. He crashed onto the ground and groaned in pain. He tried standing back up, but his leg wasn’t having it. It had already started swelling. Abraham breathed in short pained breaths and was trembling gently. He dragged himself against a rock and leaned against it. I guess i’m going to be sitting here awhile.
And he did sit there awhile. For hours he stayed alone until Eleena found him as she was traveling the depths of the canyon.
“Are you alright?” She asked looking at his swollen leg. “ You’re hurt, how did this happen?” Abraham felt embarrassed telling his story. He told her how the dragon said he couldn’t do it and he told her that he was going to prove the dragon wrong, only to find out the dragon was right all along.
“Here, let me help you.” She tried getting him up off the seating position on the ground, but to no avail. She simply wasn’t strong enough.
“Actually, instead let me get you some food.” And off she flew, only to come back later with an array of fruits, insects, meat and seafood for him. While she was gone Abraham was thinking. He was thinking about that feeling he got the first moment he saw her. She was it. She was his charge. “I got these for you. I can’t leave you alone here in your position. Let me stay with you until you can get up on your own.”
“We’re gonna be here awhile,” She said as Abraham nodded. “So tell me about yourself.” She smiled with a smile that could light up the darkness. He noticed it, but refused to admit his own crushing on her.
“I hoard gems, animal skulls and assorted furniture pieces.” He said warming up to her.
“That’s cool! You’ll have to show me them one day.”
“Sure”
This was the beginning of a beautiful, but unusual love story.