The Center Garden Fountain
egend
has it that a very long, long time ago, a wealthy family own this very
chateau. They were amoung the very first settlers in what eventually
became modern day Canada, and built the chateau as a tribute to their wealth
and power. Like most mortal achievements, however, their power waned
and they faded into silent oblivion. All except for this simple story.
It seems that a couple of generations
after the chateau was built, the owner's daughter fell madly in love with
a simple peasant whose job it was to tend to the gardens and feed the livestock.
Day after day, she would go to the garden and sit at the fountain so that
she oculd watch him work. At first, she did nothing but watch him,
because she was certain he would never speak to one above his station.
Finally, however, her adoration of the youth drove her to speak to him.
In their talks, she discovered that he, too, had admired her from afar.
They pledged in secret to be married, and planned for a day when the young
gardener had saved enough money to spirit her away from the chateau.
They both knew that her father would never approve of the match, but neither
cared, as all they knew was love.
One night, the young woman
snuck out of her bedchambers to meet her lover beside the fountain.
This was the night they had planned to run away and be married. Unknown
to her, her brothers followed closely behind her, having suspected something
was about to happen between their sister and the garden boy. There
was a struggle, and the young gardener was killed. His bride-to-be
was gragged screaming back to her bedroom and locked inside. Her
father was wrathful and, in a fit of rage, commanded that she should never
be released from her rooms until she agreed to renounce her love the dead
peasant. She refused. Night after night, she would gaze longingly
out through her window to the gardens and the fountain where they met that
fateful night.
Sometime later, however, her
father relented and sent for her. The maid opened her chambers...
only to find her dead body seated by the barred window, one hand out-stretched
as if in farewell.
To this day, they say that
she can be seen by moonlight, dressed in a long white gown, running down
the path to the fountain where by some chance, her beloved gardener might
still be waiting for her.
They also say that since the
greatest wishes of the young lovers were left unfulfilled, a promise was
placed upon the fountain where they used to meet-- that should any person
make a wish at the fountain while trailing their fingers in the water,
and if that wish is pure and meant from the heart, it might be granted.
What? You don't believe
me? Try it now! Make a wish now, and say aloud, "Will you grant
this, my sincerest wish?" Then,click on a number to see if the spirits
of the fountain deemed your wish worthy to be granted.
**Disclaimer: Nothers,
the Chateau and the events described above are not real. They were
created fictionally for the realm of Forever Knight Fandom. The photographs
above were borrowed from the following sites: No copyright breach
intended and no animals or ghosties harmed in the creation of this fiction.