Irainature smiled. "You misunderstand the rain, child. You see tears. I see a giver of life. Come. Walk with me."
"Rain isn't sadness," Irainature explained. "It is patience. It falls so the thirsty can drink."
Nature’s moods are not against us. Even the grayest rain carries the seed of green life. Change your perspective, and a storm becomes a song.
And the rain no longer felt like sadness. It felt like the world watering its own garden—and her heart, at last, learned to bloom in every storm.
For the first time, she didn't feel trapped. She felt connected.
"Why do you hide inside when the sky weeps?" Irainature asked, her voice a soft rumble like distant thunder.
One afternoon, as dark clouds gathered over the mountains, an old woman with eyes like mossy stones appeared at Leona’s door. Her name was Irainature.
