What happened to Alamander and Aringabella?
Alamander grew from boy to man, and, in time, he married and had a
family. With the wise advice of his friend, Aringabella, he became a
respected elder among the people of his village.
Often, in the evening, when the day's work was done and with his parrot
perched securely on his shoulder, Alamander would lead his family to a
quiet clearing along the riverbank where they would sit facing the river.
They studied the world around them: flowers and trees, grass and rocks,
and fallen leaves pushed along the ground by soft breezes. They looked
out at the river and saw fish breaking the surface, and they listened to the
hum of insects, the songs of birds, and the squeaking of bats. Raising
their eyes, they gazed at the stars in the black velvet dome above, and
they spoke their thoughts of how all these things came to be.
And as they marveled, Alamander would tell again how he and
Aringabella had helped to bring stories to the world, and of the wonder
of the place from which the box of stories had come.
''The people of Planet Earth,' he would say at the end, 'must deserve this
great gift from the Lord of the Sky.
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