The lighthouse was lit again after a long time. This time came a ship that sailed from overseas carrying an emaciated passenger--Mr Dreamyboy Highspirits. Highspirits was the son of Mr Machli and Mrs Nightmare. Machli was a fish out of the water. How he married Nightmare will ever remain a mystery. And so will, how Highspirits was born out of this dysfunctional union.
Highspirits was weak from severe under- nourishment. There wasn't any scarcity of food. The land where he came from was abundant with food and wine. In fact wine flowed so freely that he literally swam in it (it is also the reason that earned him the moniker Highspirits). What lacked for him was Mother's love. For Mrs Nightmare too her son was her only sweet dream. Her son was the only semblance of order in her disorderly life. Like they say the umbilical cord was cut only in flesh.
It's in this state that Highspirits met Candy. (By now Aperture who was stuck on that miserable island escaped to a distant and rich land. It seemed his life was on the right course. But Candy and Aperture felt a chasm between them. Even technology couldn't connect them because they used different phones.) Highspirits drew from Candy the energy that lacked in him. Candy in all her perfection was full of life. Enough to bring even a corpse back to life. Indeed, Highspirits too was exorcised of whatever evil foreign wine and homesickness instilled in him.
To be continued...
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