She was lying on the margin of the river. 

Her body half covered by the running waters.

The other half naked, amplifying the sunlight.

Singing a powerful and beautiful melody. 

Her black hair moving around with the wind. 

Her deep eyes attracting the flowers, forming a crown over her head.

A smile on her lips, so daring, waving the river by itself.

*****

They can often hear her songs in the nearest village.

And when they hear them, they run away from the river.

"It is beautiful, but it is death... it is the Mistress of River"

*****

One day, a man was caught by the stream.

He fought against it, trying to get back to the known path.

When he realized he was lost, the night came.

And he started to hear a distant melody.

He tried to swim out of the river.

But the more he went towards the margin, the more it got away from him.

He knew his destiny was sealed.

*****

The song was now louder and closer.

In front of him, the head of a beautiful woman appeared outside the water.

He was mesmerized by such beauty.

Her smile and melody hypnotized him.

He stopped fighting against the stream.

And let his body goes towards her.

He felt her hair tie around his hands and legs.

While his clothes were carried by the river.

Fully naked and tied, he was not thinking about anything else.

His bloodstream rushing, feeling so hard a sensation that he never felt.

He was ready to give himself fully to that force.

*****

On the next day, when the man didn't show up at the village, they knew.

He was taken by the Mistress, and there was nothing they could do now.

They found him on the river a few days later.

And they never saw that deep-dyed smile in anyone else's face.