Multraversal Adventures 4: Darkness' Rise

Chapter 5: In Life, and In Death

As Relka and Nathan traveled through the forest, they stopped in a spot where the sun's beams illuminated a peculiar dirt mound.

Nathan?: "Hmm, what are we doing here?"

Relka: "This place... This is where my mother and father first met. Where they fell in love with one another."

Nathan: "Hmm, well, the question still stands."

Relka: "After my mother died, Alkor, my father, and I buried her here. It was my father's wish that, when he passed away, Alkor and I would bury him here, so that him and my mother could be together once again, both in this world, and the realm of the dead."

Nathan?: "Hmm, his words?"

Relka: "Yes."

Nathan?: "Hmm, a wise man. However, what is the purpose of her casket?"

Relka: "Well, we usually put our dead in caskets, but my father loved my mother too much to just keep her in a box withing a temple, so he reunited her with the forest. We still kept the casket within the temple, because he didn't want anyone knowing that he had buried her here."

Nathan?: "Hmm, a bit confusing, but I think I understand."

Relka then used a nearby shovel to dig a hile for her father. Once she finished it, her and Nathan lied her father down within the hole.

Relka: "Nathan?"

Nathan?: "Yes?"

Relka: "Did you really mean what you said back there?"

Nathan?: "What do you mean?"

Relka: "What you said about my father."

Nathan?: "Hmm, yes. I do believe he was a good man."

Relka: "Thank you. That means a lot. Hm, especially coming from a reincarnation of The First."

Nathan?: "Hmm, yes. Interesting."

Relka: "What?"

Nathan?: "Oh, nothing."

Relka: "Hmm, okay."

Relka then shoveled all the dirt back into the hole.

Relka: "I'll miss you, father."

Nathan and Relka then used the key Xoros gave Relka, and they teleported back to Nortonia.

Xoros: "Hey, hey, guys! You're back!"

Globob: "Yay!"

Relka: "No. No 'yay'."

Xoros: "Huh? What happened?"

Relka: "I... I don't want to talk about it."

Nathan?: "Her father passed."

Relka: "Nathan!"

Nathan?: "It's better to have friends to help you during times of loss, than to deal with it by yourself."

Xoros: "Hmm, he's right, Relka. I'm sorry for your loss."

Globob: "I'm sorry, as well."

Relka: "Thanks, but, it's not either of your faults. Just leave me alone for a while."

Xoros: "Of you need one, there should be a few guest rooms here in the castle."

Relka: "Thank you, Xoros."