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Author:Kanggo Sekolah Time:2025/01/11 Read: 2722buatkan cerita dari kata danau
The old woman, Nana, called it the Whispering Lake. Others, younger, less steeped in the lore of the valley, simply called it Lake Silvanus. But Nana knew. She knew the secrets the lake held, whispered on the wind that perpetually rippled its surface, secrets buried in the silt at its deepest point, secrets etched into the ancient, gnarled roots of the cypress trees that clawed at its banks.
Nana had lived beside the lake for eighty years, her life as weathered and textured as the bark of those cypress trees. She remembered a time when the lake was a vibrant sapphire, teeming with fish, its shores alive with the songs of unseen birds. That was before the blight.
The blight, they called it, though no one truly knew what it was. A sickness that crept across the land, leeching the color from the leaves, the vibrancy from the flowers, the life from the lake itself. The sapphire had faded to a murky green, the fish dwindled, the birds fell silent. Only the whispering remained.
Nana’s granddaughter, Elara, a bright-eyed city girl, visited every summer. Elara, with her city-slicker skepticism, couldn’t understand Nana’s reverence for the lake. She saw only stagnant water and drooping reeds, a desolate place.
One summer, Elara discovered an old, leather-bound book in Nana’s attic. It was a journal, filled with Nana’s elegant script detailing the lake’s history, its changing moods, its silent pleas. She read of a time before the blight, of festivals held on the lake’s shores, of rituals performed to appease the lake’s spirit. She read of a sacred stone, said to hold the key to restoring the lake’s vitality, a stone lost long ago.
Intrigued, Elara began to investigate. She spoke to the older villagers, piecing together fragments of forgotten stories. She learned of a hidden cave, accessible only during the darkest night of the year, a cave where the stone was believed to be hidden.
On that darkest night, Elara, guided by Nana’s journal and the whispering wind that now seemed to carry a sense of urgency, found the cave. Inside, nestled amongst ancient bones and forgotten tools, she found it – a smooth, obsidian stone, pulsating with a faint inner light.
Holding the stone, Elara felt a surge of power, a connection to the lake, to the land itself. She returned to the lake’s edge, and with Nana by her side, placed the stone on a small altar built from the ancient cypress roots. As the first rays of dawn touched the water, a ripple spread across the surface, widening, growing, until the entire lake shimmered with a renewed, vibrant sapphire glow.
The birds returned, their songs filling the air. Fish leaped from the water, their scales glittering in the sunlight. The whispering remained, but now it was a song of renewal, a testament to the enduring power of memory, of love for the land, and the unwavering hope that even the most blighted places can be restored. The Whispering Lake whispered no longer of sorrow, but of life reborn.
