Chapter 1: The story under the moonlight

My name is Vivian, I am a dreamy city girl, I am 18 years old, the age of a teenager, full of dreams and ambitions.

Maybe, I'll have fun peacefully and live the life of a student. If it doesn't happen.

To reward my 3rd-grade graduation, my parents gave me a trip back to Hallstatt. Filled with eagerness and excitement, I asked my mother:

-Mother! Mom! What do you need to prepare for when you go away?

She smiled and rubbed my head and said:

- You don't have to prepare much. It's okay to just prepare a few personal belongings and daily clothes. The hotel is full. You don't have to carry too many things. What matters is paperwork, money, and a phone. Do those things have to be kept carefully?

I smiled sweetly into my mother's lap and said:

- Yes, I know. Rest assured.

My mother hesitated for a moment before saying:

- Or, shall I come with you tomorrow? But you go alone, I'm not comfortable.

I lifted my head to look at her and said:

- Rest assured, your daughter is older. I know how to take care of myself. Don't worry!

My mother nuzzled my forehead slightly, scolding:

- Oh my daughter, not as mature as anyone asked to be an adult.

- To you, I am a child. But in this society, I'm 18. It's an adult.

I laughed sweetly teasing my mother, she scolded me again:

- Yes, you're so grown up!

- That's it. Your daughter is old enough to get married.

- So take it!

- I am a baby.

- Who just told me you were an adult?

I laughed except I didn't know what to say to my mother.

.........

Hallstatt is a land with a rich history. Here, there are many ethnic minorities living and many religions coexist.

Sitting in the car, I looked at the green mountain, which made my soul strangely comfortable. The car takes more than 4 hours to arrive. According to the address my mother wrote on the paper, this is not a hotel as my mother used to say, it is a spacious house for tourists. After payment and check-in, I was served to take to the stilt house that I would be staying in during the tour.

After locking the door carefully, I dropped my backpack to the floor, then fell onto the comfy bed. After the long trip, I felt tired. Being able to drop into a comfortable place like this, makes me feel sleepy. My eyes kept narrowing, and I fell asleep all the time.

In the dream, I heard the verse in my ear:

"The girl far from the horizon,

Is your love still there

have you forgotten?...”

Strange images kept passing by very quickly in the dream.

Startled awake, it was late at night, the moonlight outside the window, the afternoon where I lay.

Looking up at the moonlight, I had never, seen such beautiful moonlight. It was like silver all over space, a magical light that I had never seen in the city. How gentle, harmonious, and peaceful.

Stepping down from the house, this place is a large courtyard, covered by the silver moonlight. Everything seems to shimmer fancifully, a fairy tale is written. I exclaimed in amazement:

- That's beautiful! It was so beautiful!

- Does it look good?

Startled, she turned to her, and in front of her was an elderly woman, dressed in a gentle costume. A little surprised, but I politely replied:

- Yes, it's nice! In our city, we've never seen moonlight this beautiful.

The woman smiled and said:

- Yes, it's beautiful and it's a testament to the love here.

- Really, ma'am?

- Really? Boys and girls here, if they love each other, they will swear together in the moonlight, never to separate each other. Do you want to hear the story of moonlight here?

- Yes. Tell me!

- Sit down here, drink a piece of water, and tell me.

I sat down next to the old woman, my hands on my chin, facing the old woman, I listened intently to the ancient story of the magical moonlight here.

Old stories tell that, here at the peak of the Mo Dynasty, there was a poor girl named Yna, as beautiful as a forest flower, Yna was a hardworking and obedient girl. Once on a trip to the stream, she accidentally saves an injured duke who faints in the bushes, gradually they develop feelings and swear together. After returning to the capital, the boy married her as his wife.

The woman stopped her sentence and turned to talk when she saw that Vivian had fallen asleep. The moonlight covered her body like a large silver blanket, it hugged her whole body.

In my dream, I heard the song again:

"She's far from the horizon,

Is your love still there

have you forgotten?...

In the moonlight, a young man appeared, smiled slightly and extended his hand in my direction, and said in a soft, deep voice:

- Come back to me!

Subconsciously, I reached out and grabbed it.

...

I opened my eyes,

An unfamiliar piece of memory rushed through his mind, wandering in his thoughts. Not knowing what to do, a nationalist voice said:

- Yna! Are you up?

I rolled my eyes, looking at the strange woman who called me daughter. Somehow, I could understand the language the woman spoke.

When I look back, I see that I am wearing the costume of the Tay ethnic people. It was a five-body shirt, with a belt, made of cotton and indigo, trousers in the form of tubes, a necklace, bracelets, and anklets made of silver, touched on the head, my head was a crow's beak-shaped scarf. I was terrified, I didn't know where this was. Turning my frightened eyes I asked the woman in front of me:

- Where is this? Who is she?

The woman who heard me ask, her face sad and worried, asked:

- Don't you recognize me?

I nodded gently and asked again:

- Who are you?

After hearing that question, the woman cried loudly.

- Whoops! She didn't recognize me anymore. The forest ghost had already captured its soul.

Hearing the woman's cry, a man rushed in,

- What's wrong with Yna’s mom?

The woman sobbed.

- Yna’s father! How Yna did it, she didn't recognize me.

The man approached and asked:

- Yna! Do you realize who I am?

Are you Yna? A fragment of memories rushed back, the person in front of her, whom she used to call her father. Suddenly she exclaimed.

-Father!

He showed a look of delight.

- What's wrong with Yna?

The weeping woman said:

- She doesn't recognize you.

- Slowly, probably because she fell, I don't remember. Then she'll remember. Yna's mother.

3 days passed, and for some reason, my memories in another world naturally disappeared. Only the memory of Yna remained. I’ve actually lived Yna's life, morning, and went to the woods to pick mushrooms and vegetables. In the evening, with the village singing in the firelight, the sound of drum gongs echoed throughout the forest. Life is peaceful and fun.

One day, I was working on the road, and suddenly my father ran from nowhere, and he shouted:

- Yna! Run off to the village! Run fast, baby!

Hearing my father, I ran towards the mountains, I didn't dare turn my head to look

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