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There was once a garden so beautiful, so pure that time itself did not dare set foot in it. The fruits were full and brightly colored, and their scents hung in the warm air with a sweet flavor that would reach out and cling to your clothes and linger on your tongue. The grass was thick and cool, with no rocks or thistles to stab at bare feet, and no insects to nibble on bared flesh. The breeze was gentle and cool, perfectly contrasted by the warm air. The sky was in a state of perpetual sunset, with the tip of the sun lingering over the western skys, casting the most exuberant shades of reds and oranges, greens and purples across it, and mixing with the moon that sat, fat and jolly on the other side, casting its alabaster glow down upon the garden.
In this garden, there lived three people. The first was a man named Eden, and he was the keeper of the garden. He over saw that the fruit grew large and sweet, and that the grass was safe and long. He kept the leaves on the trees green and thick, and made the branches grow wide and low, so that they could climb them if they so wished. He would hold the air still, and wind up the breeze, adding new and foreign smells and tastes to the air.
The second was another man called Adam, and Adam was responsible for the sky. Every day, he would take the pallet of paints and reach up into the sky to make it even more beautiful. He would sketch the stars to make giant murals and pictures across the sky, and mix in newer, brighter shades of color around the sun, so there was always something new to look at.
The last was a girl named Eve. She was responsible for the two men. She would take all the colors and mix them into different shades and hues for Adam's paint, and she would go out into the world and bring back the most exotic and delicious flavors for Eden's fruits. She would applaud them on their magnificent work, and offer ideas and inspiration. When she was in the garden, she would sit and watch them work, listening to them rant and chirp about what they thought and planned, and she would tell them stories of the places she had been and all that she had seen. The two men would sit and listen to her tales for hours on end, with their jaws half open and their eyes wide with shock and delight.
They did things like this for very long, but then one day, while Eve was out in the world, the two men grew jealous of her ability to leave the garden. They did not think it was fair that she got to leave and they stayed and did all the work. So the men plotted to kill her so that they, instead of her, could leave. Adam, however, loved Eve dearly, and had no intention of harming her, rather, he intended to warn her of Eden's jealousy. But Eve, who was cunning, over heard them talking, and ran from the garden back into the world.
The two men waited for her return. And waited. And waited. But still Eve did not come. They waited for her so long that the fruit rotted and waisted away, and the flavors dimmed. The sky faded and became dull without the new paints for Adam to fix them, and the mural of stars began to crack. Then Eve returned to the garden. She snuck in silently through one of the cracks in the sky, and looked about. When she had seen how dead and decrepit her beloved garden had become, she knelt down and wept. It was there that Adam found her, and he knelt beside her and held her close, and told her of all Eden's treachery. He held her in his arms and told her that he had missed her, that he was sorry. It was then that they heard Eden coming towards them, and they both hid in the branches of an apple tree. Eden called out to Adam, and asked him why he would hide. Adam did not respond, he held Eve close, afraid to so much as breath for fear that Eden would hear him. Eventually he wandered of, and Adam and Eve came down from the tree, and started to think of what they could do. Eve had an idea, and she went back into the world to see what she could use.
While Eden was in one of the orchards of the garden, he heard a rustling behind him, and he looked down to see a huge, black serpent racing across the ground towards his feet. Eden had never seen a snake, he had only heard of them from Eve's tales, and he was very afraid. He ran, screaming through the garden, with the snake at his heels, its fangs bared and hissing. Eden ran so hard that he stumbled and fell into the sky, and right through a crack in Adam's sky. As soon as he had gone through, Adam took the new paints Eve had brought him and covered all the cracks, and Eve rejuvenated all of the fruit that Eden had neglected.
Adam and Eve still live in that garden and keep it to this day, spending their days in peace and happiness, except for when Eve has to venture into the world, and when she does she must be very careful not to run into Eden, who still haunts the earth with thousands of his children, all of whom are searching for a way back into the Garden.