Drifting - The ink well fiction Prompt #125 .

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Margarita Island is located on the eastern coast. In its town called Pedro Gonzalez, a few kilometers from there is Playa Zaragoza, with a landscape that nature offers: An infinite sea, with a blue that blends with the sky that contemplates it from its height. Very close to its shore, there is a road that leads to a small hill, where a lighthouse is anchored.

The story goes that many years ago. In that lighthouse lived a lighthouse keeper, who emigrated from another country, called, (Genaro, affectionately, Naro). He was in charge of its maintenance and to watch over its good operation. He also wrote and recited beautiful poems. Luz Marina, was a very beautiful young girl, daughter of a fisherman, who had a rowing boat where she used to go fishing with her fishing line and a hook. When her father came back with the fish. She would take the boat and row on that beach for a long time. Before going paddling her father advised her:

"Be careful, the boat may tip over, and you can't swim well because of your leg disability."

"Don't worry, I rowed very carefully," she replied.

There she was in that boat walking around for quite a while. She got out of the boat and tied it to a stockade.

On her way back home she took the road leading to the lighthouse, and as she passed Naro, he looked at her and was surprised to see her. he dedicated a poem to her, and exclaimed:

Who is this beautiful woman?
That I can't distinguish between person or goddess.
Like a shooting star falling from the sky
Flaming her hair dances in the breeze.

Luz Marina blushed, her cheeks reddened, like a ripe strawberry. He approached her and gave her a red rose. She received it with great pleasure, and so these encounters succeeded each other daily, love arose between them, and soon the young woman became his wife, and this relationship lasted a long time
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At the end of several days, the young woman went to see her husband and remarked:

"Love, some friends have invited me to go sailing to the island of Cubagua."

"I don't like you going on that trip, remember your disability". he replied.
"Don't worry, nothing will happen to me".

He turned around and went to turn on the lighthouse reflector, because it was already getting dark.

The next day Luz Marina went with her two friends to Cubagua Island, when she arrived she borrowed a rowing boat and boarded it. Her friends were afraid and did not want to get in. She commented:
"This beach has something that magnetizes me, and attracts me. Come on, get in!
"No, we are afraid, you go alone, we will wait for you on the shore of the beach". They answered
The young woman left in her boat to go for a walk. In fractions of a second her friends saw the boat capsize and drift away. Her friends ran along the shore and shouted:

"Help us, please help us, Luz Marina has fallen into the depths of the sea!

Many fishermen jumped into the water in search of her. When Naro found out, he ran many kilometers, a friend who was passing by in a car took him to where the events happened, When he reached the shore of the beach he shouted:

"Luz Marina, my love, where are you?".

A sepulchral silence let the echo carry away his words. He felt helpless, he didn't even know how to swim, the only consolation he had left was to cry disconsolately. Then he calmed down and waited patiently for her to be found. Rescue teams joined the search, but after several days of searching, the efforts were futile and her body was not found.

Naro returned to the lighthouse, he lost interest in his work, he no longer took care of its maintenance to project the light of the spotlight, so that the ships could orient themselves with its reflector. The only thing he did was to call his wife, as the days went by, he lost his mind, fell into a state of depression, generating a senile dementia, he did not remember the past.

Myths were created, the inhabitants of that town commented that they heard Luz Marina talking inside the lighthouse. That if you took that path she would chase you. The lighthouse was abandoned. Naro, Demente took refuge in the Plaza Bolivar of Porlamar where he recited his poems and the passers-by and tourists who walked by listened to him with great attention and rewarded him with money...