The Lake Girl (full story) by Asmaa Nada

the lake. Then she walked until I went out into the desert and there I met a traveler on camels. She put me in the hands of a woman who was with them and told them everything and asked her to please me and not return me to the hidden village. In the oasis in the middle of the desert then she left me and returned.
Do you mean that my mother is not dead?
The strange man Yes when I returned I met her on the other side of the lake. She lives there and she is still eighteen years old. The people of this village do not age and they are all the souls of the dead and the bodies of the living. A curse was placed on them a long time ago for their oppression of the villages that were there and they were destroyed. And they kidnapped her women. If they do not offer the blood of their leaders daughter after she gives birth to a girl they will witness the burning death of their children seven days after her nineteenth birthday and their immortality will end and they will turn to ashes and the village and even the entire oasis will disappear knowing that pregnancy lasts for only two months.
Samar But why is my mother still alive? Why didnt what you said happen?
The strange man Her blood and ashes from my body have merged into the water of the well and this means that they have fulfilled the conditions of the curse.
Samar I dont want to die. I want to see the world and benefit people through treatment.
The strange man Then leave with me now and leave them.
Samar and my mother
The

strange man You will see her and we will leave and she will be the one who will distract them from your departure.
The girl was silent in hesitation but her love for life prompted her to flee. He held er hand and they boarded a small boat that he had hidden among the trees. Then he sailed with her to the other side while they were on the road. She said to him
How were you able to carry the boat from the trees to the water?
I have supernatural powers that I gained from that well so when I go outside the boundaries of the oasis the burns disappear and my body becomes like others without any supernatural powers.
Samar got off the boat and found a girl standing similar in appearance and age but wearing a white dress covered in blood. The girl smiled at her and approached her and said.
My beautiful little girl I am your mothers world. I used to watch you grow up and I cannot get close to you.
Samar tried to hug her but Donia stepped back until her feet touched the water and she changed and became a skeleton. She said
No my love my body has become cursed and I cannot touch you. If I touch you I will burn. Go with your brother and never come back. Within seven days everything will be over and I will disappear with them.
Samar left with her brother to live a new life that she had never known before after she said goodbye to her mother who took the boat and returned to the other side of the lake. After Samars disappearance the people of the village were terrified. After sunset Dunya would
appear and roam the face of the lake calling the girls and they would listen to her voice even if they were... behind the doors of their homes and they went to her like those who walk while asleep and she drowned them with water after their bodies were ignited by fire. She continued to do this every day until she killed all the children boys and girls in front of the eyes of the people of the village and they were unable to do anything and they could not leave and before sunset on the seventh day all The villages trees and palm trees dried up and the oasis became the ruins of a place that once existed.