The Third Wish

(Translated from Oriya story "Trutiya Ichha" by Abhash Kumar Boral)

A certain beautiful nymph was granted with a boon by an invisible source of power to fulfill any of her three wishes in her life span. And was also applied with a condition that her wishes could be fulfilled if she asked for them only looking at the sky. 

One day while drifting out the sea-beach, the nymph came across a blind. She felt as if the blind had been unhappy for years. Over a question to know the reason for his melancholy she came to know that the blind was sincerely searching a girl like her to make his life-partner and promised her to show the things, which were discovered at all. Pleased with this declaration, the nymph wished him a beautiful pair of eyes. 
The next day she, in the same place, encountered a dumb sitting all-alone in a pensive mood. When asked the reason for his sadness the girl came to know that the dumb was unsettled due to the absence of a mate in his life. Making some wild gesticulations, he clarified that if he got a beautiful spouse like her he would make her listen the most surprising sound of the world. Being happy with this assurance, the girl returned home and prayed for the activation of his speech organ. 
Time flew away like anything. The nymph was in search of these two anticipating any one of them to make her repository. And one day she met the first man(the blind) sitting in the same familiar place and asked him why he sat there. The man attested that he had been blind the previous days and had promised a girl who had once come to him to make his better half. The girl revealed her identity and claimed to be the girl whom he desired for. Interestingly the man cancelled the claim with a note of refusal asserting that she could never be the heroine of his imagination. The nymph returned with a heavy head and met the second man for the same. 
As usual she asked him the cause of his sadness. The man depicted the fact that he had come across a girl with a sweet-sounding voice and had assured her to make his life-partner .Now her absence made him sad. 
Interestingly enough, the man did not agree with the girl when she published her identity laying down the history happened some days back with a view to being the girl the man wanted. She was then put with a doubt questioning her credibility and was asked to refrain from comparing her with his would-be mate as they were drastically different. 
The nymph returned with an agonized anger; looking at the sky, opted for the fulfillment of the third but the last wish which was aimed at making the first man into blind and the second into dumb simultaneously. Suddenly she felt a strange spell over her body; she herself failed to see and to speak. The world around her became black and silent. 
Since then perhaps certain beautiful females react like the blind and the dumb. 

(Translated by Susanta Mahapatra from original Odia)