This story begins long before man develop airplanes. Anna and Eva are the best of friends. Both of them have the same dream, to become the world's first explorer to go around the world in a ship. Upon reaching 30, both of them set sailed (don't ask me where they get the ship and skill, that's not the main purpose of the story) together with their ship, Happy Ever, hoping to achieve their childhood dream together.
And so 5 years have passed. They have brave countless waves, whirpool and sea storms, and travelled to various countries and continents and meeting up with countless people in the process. They're very near in achieving their goals, and after all these years, had finally arrived in a country called Poland, best known for having the best shipwrights (in case you dunno, its carpenter that repairs or build ships) in the world. Happy Ever is quite worn out after all these years as there was no major repair being done on the ship all these while, and thus Anna and Eva thought it would be a good idea to find some shipwrights to do a throughly inspection on their ship's condition.
After a careful evaluation, they were told that Happy Ever can no longer be repaired, as its keel (the main structure at the bottom of every ship) is spoilt, thus making any repair deemed meaningless. Anna and Eva feels very reluctant since they have developed a very strong bond with Happy Ever after all these years of travelling together, persuaded the shipwright to try his best to repair the ship since both explorers had nearly completed their goal and would like to accomplish it together with Happy Ever.
The shipwright explained that despite the ship seems fine on the outside, yet the wear and tear on the main structure unseen to them is already beyond repair. He even advised both explorers to get a new ship for safety purposes.
Anna and Eva sat down at a nearby tavern to discuss the situation, and Anna favoring getting a new ship while Eva persists to continuing travelling with Happy Ever. Eva said that, even though Happy Ever is just a ship, yet they have travelled together and encountered various situation all these while and they shouldn't abandon the ship when they nearly reached their goal. Both friends ended up arguing and trying to send each other's message across, but it only ended up in greater arguement.
Both friends departed their way, with Anna getting a new ship while Eva is asking her crewman to repair Happy Ever. 2 weeks later, both friends travelled separately for the first time, and Anna reached her final destination 6 months later. She tried to seek information about Eva but didn't find any, and 1 month later she saw in newspaper that Happy Ever had been swept over by a strong tidal wave while the fate of all crews were unknown.
I guess I'm more of the Eva character all these while, not able to let go things that I treasured in the past, and thus didn't really end up "that well" in some sense (don't ask me, i dunno haha). Guess it's time to take up the Anna character for now.
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