The Honor of Entertaining ; Reading out loud when the wisteria bloomed and the air was full with sweet floral scent . Wine warmed our tongues and tasted as sweet . The Fisherman gave his soul away to wander the dregs of earth with out a heart . i cried at the stories end when the Fisherman and the Mermaid died at the oceans edge . As tears flowed and my voice began to quack i lowered my head in embarrassment . She too had been moved by Wild's story . Her eyes locked onto mine and she leaned closer to me . Tears were in her eyes too. i continued to read... and the mermaid came out of the ocean again to be near to the fisherman. The mermaid held the fisherman into her arms and there they died together . The priest who had harbored hate and misunderstanding for their kind of love came around with a softened heart . In his change of thinking about this unusual couple the priest buried them together in a barren field by the oceans edge . Forever after the field bore lavender lilies . The world became a kinder place .
