Fly Until You See The Light

Eden (3) - Chapter 4

That temple is huge! It looks like it could never end, it's not like the other temples. They're simple, small, welcoming. The Eden temple is big, confusing and endless.

King Resh doesn't say a word during that walk. Sentinekka's steps are the only sound that can be heard, and that's strange: isn't the King supposed to make some sounds too, when he walks? She doesn't know: she never heard a real Elder's steps, and Ojtaro doesn't count. He's not as graceful as an Elder, to be honest.

Finally, they both stop in front of the nothingness. There are only the walls of the blue temple.

«You came late, sadly» he says. His voice sounds like the one of someone who gave up in everything. «Do you know why I look like this? And why I can turn into a "Spirit"?».

«I believe that it's one of your powers, your Highness?» Sentinekka replies, intrigued.

«Wrong» he comments.

Suddenly, his hands create a small Light that flies above them and, then, summon a crystal. It's similar to the typical Shared Memories, but it's... Azure?

Sentinekka has never seen an azure memory before, and she's really surprised. Someone else would have been used to it, now, but she loves to feel the emotions of a new story, or a new magic in the world she lives. She'll never be tired of being shocked or scared, surprised or amazed.

«It's marvelous!» she exclaims joyfully. The King's powers are totally amazing.

«The memory that the crystal contains is not "marvelous". I don't want to show you, but it's the only way to make you understand everything» Resh tells her, his voice that looks emotionless. «Everything will happen in the crystal only. You'll find yourself back here at the end of the memory».

Before disappearing and finding herself in the middle of a void, she answers:«I understood, your Highness». 

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Now here she is. The emptiness is surrounding her as it was some kind of inexistent and imaginary dream.

Is this what Ojtaro sees when he meets an Elder? ... Scary.

A figure instantly appears far away. Is it Resh...? He is.

He doesn't look alright.

The figure of the King is laying on the black and invisible floor of the empty place they're in. He's not the King she met, he's from the past... Indeed, he's not wearing any golden or azure thing. Just red and gray. His crown is on his face, hiding every trace of his eyes, and the center of that accessory is not blue as it was supposed to be, it's red.

A last detail tells more than how a book could do: a yellowish, shining liquid flows and falls off his body.

Light.

King Resh isn't feeling well.

He's bleeding, he's losing his life.

Sentinekka tries to reach the Elder, but Shards begin to trap his body until they completely cover and suffocate it.

The girl stares at the scene in silence until she finally realizes that the King she was supposed to save is dead and gone. The one she met is a ghost, a Spirit. Does this mean that... She can't set Ojtaro free?