The Legacy

29/05/2020

The Gems sat cold in his hand Rubies, Sapphires and a very large one with a star in it. He mixed Goldstone and Cats eye just to make it more interesting and they were beautiful Beryls too.

Moments went by as he sat quietly in deep thought, Then he finished writing on the creamy paper folded it carefully and place the red seal so it would be unbroken till the person meant to find it would break that seal.

Reginald Lucas came out with the British Railways to a British outpost called Hambantota. He was a surveyor and was sent to survey other lands also for the then British Government in Ceylon.

When he surveyed lands and look at great distances through his scope……… his mind sometimes went beyond the physical horizon. He was a dreamer and a romancer. He would look into the future and imagine what these lands would be hundred years later.

He had just bought the beautiful hillock in the Town that had views of the salt lagoons and large trees that shivered with cool breeze during the very dry heat.

He placed the documents and stones in an Ebony Box and locked the lid with a brass padlock. He walked out of the front office room and faced the house. If you stood to the front of the house and turned your face to the right you saw a large light grey barked tree eight foot tall. It was especially beautiful when it shed it’s creamy leaves and flowers like a voluminous lace skirt strewn to the ground.

He took his shovel and dug a deep Hole, place the ebony box in the soil and covered it again with the dug soil smiling in a very succinct way.

This was for his Ancestors the long line to come from him that would be the Guardians of the Lands and the Keeper of memories. A treasure or reward for that person. Madeline his wife had said it would be a woman who would come 5 generations later. She had the gift of sight and her sparkling blue eyes had a faraway look when she told him. She was probably right. 

By Pierangeli Andrado