There was a young girl with a perfect heart as it was a necessity for her in order to live a full and happy life. To have a heart which was perfect without any blights.
One day she heard a loud-continuous knocking on her door. On the other side was an injured man, a traveller. She was afraid to let him in, for he could hurt her easily but when she peeked through the window, she realised that this man was in need of help a lot more than her, so she let him in. In her home and gradually in her heart.
She treated his wounds and spent her days looking after the traveler. He started to get better and fell in love with the girl who had unconditionally took care of him. One day he approached her and told her how he felt and how he was all better now because of her. He wanted her to go with him on his journey but she knew her heart was frail, she needed it to be in perfect condition to survive. So, she ignored his feelings and let him go as he was but a traveller.
Soon after he went on with his journey and as years passed he forgot about the love he had, just remembering her as the girl who he came across by luck that saved his life. Being all alone again put a crack in her heart but she didn't realise it yet, until she heard he found another maiden as beautiful as light with whom he spent his days and nights. Together, they continued on their journey and more years passed.
One fateful day he came across a familiar house and remembered a face whom he'd all forgotten about. He paid it no attention as it became a distant memory for him. When the girl saw him with another maiden, she realised her heart was already broken. Rummaged through her heart, he had already cracked it open. It was back when he left in the first place without even pursuing her to love him. A familiar pain arose in the heart of the young girl as she saw her love with another woman. He never gave her a second thought and she was overcome with grief, therefore her perfect heart, perfect no more, was broken.
Falling apart piece by piece, seeking peace which she could not achieve. Seeing him love someone else was all but a trigger for the inevitable doom of her existence which she could not figure. Thinking back to the day she first let him in, cursed herself because she knew this would happen. Tearing apart her mind and eating out her soul, her whole body ached as her heart started to wither. The secret remained a secret as she didn't tell the traveller about her feelings and so the traveller without even knowing the truth about her. Clueless he went about his journey with his miss, while a beautiful young maiden was laid to rest but her heart was still not at peace. "This was fated to happen" were her last thoughts before her demise as she fell in love when it wasn't meant to be.
Thus ends the tale of the traveller and a beautiful girl who had a perfect heart. Her crime was not having a perfect heart but the opposite of what she thought. Had she accepted the love and became even stronger at heart things wouldn't have ended up as they had. But she didn't take a chance for she knew her heart was fragile. Hence, it became the doom of her as she did not realize, to live is to live with risk and to love is to love without fear.
