Reunion: Saving Daylight

“Lizademus’s bride has a sister, Nayla! I brought her to the castle. She is distraught and presently in a cell. She is waiting to see Dayla again,” Lizwaldo said.

Lizwardo, on the brink of death, ordered his guard to release Nayla, but not before issuing his final decree: “Nayla may spend the next hour with her sister. Let the two frolic under the setting sun before the light of Nayla’s life is taken away for our new King. She may return to the castle to see her sister exactly one year from now, on the second Sunday of March for exactly one hour.” 

Lizwardo crowned Lizademus and within the next few minutes, he drifted into an eternal slumber. 

The lizard guards released the two sisters into the yard, where they embraced and cried. “We only have an hour together, dear sister,” Dayla said. 

“Even one hour is better than never seeing you again,” Nayla replied. As the sky grew darker, Nayla was escorted out of the castle, back to the meadows where she and her sister once spent all their days laughing, dreaming, and playing. She would have to cope without her sister until the day came for her to reunite with Dayla for just one more hour.

Henceforth, the Kingdom of Lizardia, whose influence spanned across several parts of the world, would observe this bittersweet moment the sisters shared. And that is why, from the second Sunday of March to the first Sunday of November, we save daylight.