Celestial Fall

Part 1

Chapter One

Death: A Study

What is death without life? Or life without death? Can you call it life without end? Death is not the end but the beginning many great minds say. And I like to think that Death is vital since the time of his disappearance many thought it was a blessing but now here we are a thousand years later how many of us should have died naturally yet now the only way we can die is of extreme old age or a total destruction of the body. How long before we beg for death? The eternity before us is long. How long till we are all insane lifeless husks that have lot that end that we have come to realize as a release. Not as the end.

Mort - 999 DD

She woke up with a sense of wrongness it echoed through her but she didn't know what was wrong. Touching her cheek where her husband usually kissed her. She felt his lips on her skin and she knew then that something was wrong. Running from the house she hoped to make it in time. Poitarn was an hour away walking and she had no horse.

She reached the town and knew she was too late. Walking slowly through the town looking lost and alone, she slowly approached the town square where the crowd was. The people in the crowd didn't notice her until she was standing in their midst. Whispers soon spread and a path was made for her some begging her to help the men, some apologizing. Before she made it to the center of the square she stopped. A soft furry hand fell on her shoulder and she slowly looked up at the golden female Kaire standing next to her. Mon'ta looked down at her with a tear in her eye and whispered. "I am sorry Lire we tried to get to him as fast as we could. But we just didn't make it fast enough. Please forgive my clan if they hadn't asked him out it would of just been my brothers out there." Lireal felt a kiss on her cheek as the wind blew by and knew her husband was gone. She collapsed starting to cry holding on to the Kaire. Mon'ta knelt down and held her tightly. After a time Lireal stood and walked away not saying anything to anyone.

Lireal was walking slowly through the forest lost and alone. Her husband was dead and she didn't know how to handle it. Her sadness was swallowing her as she was walking. The tinkling of bells was heard drifting through the forest catching her attention. She slowly looks around, before stopping, her gaze falling on a black wisp.

"Is it my time?" she whispers looking at the wisp.

The wisp turns and moves into the forest and stops looking at her. She looks at it in confusion, black wisps usually meant that one's death was close and this one wanted her to follow it. She shook her head not understanding at all. Her broken heart willing to follow her husband into the afterlife even if it meant dying somewhere no one would find her. So she decided to follow it.

After walking through the forest for what seemed like an hour she stepped into a clearing the clouds covering it left it dark and inhospitable. Looking around she spots a deadfall of a tree on the ground the stump still in the ground walking closer she is amazed by the sight in front of her.

Wisps a rainbow of them, every color imaginable, hovering above the stump. It took her a moment before she realized that none of them were looking at her they all were dancing about the stump looking down at the stump. She slowly inched closer and gasped when she sees a bundle on the stump, a baby, she moves closer looking at all the wisps as they move out of the way for her without looking away from the baby. She reaches the baby and kneels down looking at him. She was drawn to his eyes first they were striking the irises were black but had red ribbons running through them she gasps again when he turns those eyes on her like they were staring into her soul.

She felt her world turn upside down tears started running down her face as she slowly picks up the baby. The hole in her heart was gone and she never beyond a shadow of a doubt this was a gift from the gods and they had heard her prayers. As she turns to walk back she notices that she is standing on the path back to her home and knew that the wisps had moved her. She finishes the trek home and laughs happily as she brings her son home for the first time.