Lullaby for a Big Girl, or Love, as a sleeping pil

Lullaby for a Big Girl,
or
Love, as a sleeping pill.





To my lovely wife,
Who mildly amuses me and greatly inspires
With her ability to stay young and adult,
At the same time.




It is come to pass that on some very far planet, Anuk, a young she-deer Mas’ya lived.  She was beautiful, romantic, and full of life. Just one shortcoming she had – she slept badly. As she was trying to be sleep her gills would always dry up and she would have to moisten them with the slime from her spine papillae. Only very late at night she could collapse from tiredness and exhaustion.

At the same time but in the quite different Galaxy on the far planet Khe, a baby-elephant Emekh lived. He was shy and romantic. Yet, he had a wonderful disheveled ginger beard.  And because of it some dwellers jeered at him and some were envious. Very different and strange beings lived on the planet Khe. Fortunately, they didn’t know his main problem – by no means could he get asleep early. His trunk was wrinkled terribly and in no way could he place it between his twings. And so, only at very early morning, he, although, it was very shameful, had to wet his trunk with the slime from his spine papillae, and only then he fall asleep.

So Mas’ya and Emekh lived each in his own world very very far from each other, suffering from insomnia. All of this was going on, until, one Middle Universe Night, they dreamed about each other. That morning they awake with ineffable difficulties by their families and friends. And the whole day they were wearing somewhat strangely-happy smiles, and till dusk they went to their beds. They fell asleep at once and hugging each other went for a walk under the stars. And they felt wonderful together. And there was evening, and there was morning, the first night.

 Hereafter Mas’ya and Emekh have never had trouble sleeping. And after some time, a decently lengthy time, the magic access of tenderness started happening between them. It was then that Emekh, very carefully, moistened Mas’yas gills with the slime from his spine papillae, and Mas’ya, very immaculately, caressed Emekh’s trunk. And there were evenings, and there were mornings, and Love.