The sound of tea pouring down a cup rings loud in the middle of a sleepless night. Cider serves the tea-filled cup to Louie.
"Gaia..." Louie says. "Why did your angels take her out?" He added, sipping from the cup.
"You have failed to realize who she is, where she came from, and what she did." Cider replies.
"...She never told me."
"Logic. She's half human and half ancient being: A forbidden child."
40 YEARS AGO
A newborn baby is raised in the air. The baby's pounding mother is out of breath, torn apart by minutes of pain.
"Is this what you want, Timeline-2!?" She says in disdain.
"My blood, my dignity, my life, is tainted by YOUR CREATION!"
The midwife puts the newborn child in a bed, cutting her umbilical cord.
"My life is no match for that of ones that live immortal and powerful... I REFUSE to live a life knowing that he roams free..."
She begins laughing...
"What a world, what a world."
Out of shock, her heart stops; her eyes wide open, her soul left destroyed.
PRESENT DAY
Cider navigates the changelog.
"She was not supposed to be born. But that ancient being just has to ruin all of that..." She exclaims. "We cannot take away an innocent child... But we did take the ancient being out."
She shares with Louie a line from the changelog.
"Eliminated an ancient being for committing a forbidden sin."
"Update 162." Cider added. "During 161's maintenance, we looked and looked for where this forbidden child had gone to."
40 YEARS AGO
Hundreds of angels fly down Trinity Town, in search of the forbidden child.
They search the hospitals...
The orphanages...
And the households...
But no angel can't seem to find the baby.
A few days into the search, Two angels stop by a riverbank to wash their hands. Everything goes to plan until they hear the screams of a newborn child.
"Did you hear that, Pearl...?"
"Yeah, I did. It's over there!"
The two angels rush towards a basket. The baby's crying face shows it all, awake in all her glory in the middle of the pause.
PRESENT DAY
"The only way we can detect ancient beings is for the entire world to pause."
Cider and Louie are playing spider solitaire on the table.
"If they're awake..." She shows her ace and drops it down, making a complete set. Cider completes the sentence.
"Then it's a given."
40 YEARS AGO
Pearl and her subordinate angels, one of them being Cider, arrive at First Gate with the infant.
Despite her hybrid status as an ancient being, her human half collectively overpowered the barrier on their way to heaven.
"She's a beauty, right...?" Pearl says as the angels in First Gate surround her.
YOU ARE READING
Follow Me! (The Golden Ridge Saga)
HumorTwo friends, Iggy and Pickle, travel the world to follow and defeat a foe that is shaping their world to his liking.
