Three weeks prior.
An ordinary day was to occur by the looks of things until John surprised Anna with tickets to anywhere in the world. As delightful as that sounded, a problem arose – where should they go? So many possibilities, so many choices to pick from. It was indeed hard, if not overwhelming for both. In the end, they decided to wait a few days until a decision became evident between the two of them.
It was dark and melancholic, which didn’t help that Anna was feeling quite nervous at the time. But time didn’t mean anything as she was nowhere and everywhere at once. A divine sense of position was felt. Suddenly she saw symbols of no particular meaning until they morphed into four artistic images – A crude pictogram of a goose, a flask with mysterious liquid, a sun, which was so bright yet so dim at the same time. And lastly – John. It took Anna a few seconds to take things in, she questioned the symbols and their meaning, then someone called out… In a deep, manly, yet somewhat feminine and elegant rhyming voice:
“True love and compassion,
From the land of the ice,
Can be a distraction,
So listen to my advice,
Such attraction, a true prophecy,
Will not last for long,
If not for action, an odyssey,
So please come along
A sun, a goose, and the mysterious flask,
Will save you from many dramas,
To keep your love, your compassion, your task,
You must come to Bahamas”
Anna then woke up, to a snowy, sunny view of Finland on the other side of her window. She got up but suddenly remembered the dream. A strange feeling of optimistic pessimism and emotional calling flooded her body. Unbeknownst to her, as she pondered, John walked into the room, visibly
concerned, yet somewhat afloat. “Good morning, sweetheart”, said John as
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