. LORENA CATALINA FT. MEILIN - Tumblr Posts
Lorena approached Meilin with a mixture of concern and calmness, noting the distress evident in her demeanor. She knelt down beside her, keeping her voice gentle and reassuring. "It sounds like you've had quite a scare," Lorena began, her tone soft and understanding. She glanced at the black jade earring still in place, then focused on Meilin's frantic searching. "Let's take a moment. We'll find your earring, I promise." With a calm gesture, Lorena started scanning the area around them, her eyes combing through the sand meticulously.
"No, actually, I am not," said Meilin, her tone verging on hysteria. Her eyes were trained downwards and she was making frenzied circles in the sand like some kind of crab. Finally, she dropped to her knees, too frantic to be embarrassed. "My earring," she said hurriedly, by way of explanation. On the left her black jade earring sat snugly. On the right...Well, she'd only noticed it was gone moments ago, so perhaps it was still on this blasted beach.
As Lorena watched Meilin's distress over her lost earring, her thoughts drifted back to a painful memory of her own. The necklace her mother had given her, a cherished heirloom passed down through generations, had slipped from her neck during those harrowing days of captivity. She remembered the panic that had gripped her then, the desperate search through unfamiliar surroundings, hoping against hope to find it but she never did. Lorena knelt beside Meilin "I understand it feels overwhelming right now," she said gently, her voice calm and empathetic. "But sometimes, the tide brings back what it takes away. Let's stay here for a moment and see. Perhaps we'll get lucky." Lorena glanced out at the gentle waves lapping the shore, hoping they might return what Meilin had lost.
Meilin barely looked at the woman, her eyes were so trained on the sand. But the calming effect her voice has on Meilin was instant. She took a deep breath and then another, nodding and willing the lump in her throat to go down. She started to walk backwards, retracing her steps as best as she could. But it wasn't long before she collapsed to her knees. "It's no use...Stop, just stop. There's no way to find it, a little black speck among a million specks. Thank you, really, but," she sighed, feeling like she may cry. "It's gone."
