The Shadows of Royalty

Daniel's Sight

"Rachel," A voice cooed.

I couldn't move, neither can I see the light. My eyes couldn't leave the darkness; or rather they did not want to leave it.

"Rachel," The voice seemed to call for me again but it seemed distant every second.

Mentally I was defenseless. Memories lingered as nightmares lurked. There was no difference this time...Nothing seemed to call for me, beckoning me to wake up. I felt powerless. The energy that swarmed through me, that was woven within my soul, wasn't present anymore. I seemed lifeless.

Within my vision, a vast rolling meadow formed, and enfolded before me. The known greenery was missing, but rather in its place loomed wilting grey flowers and the grass was nonexistent. The sky's blue, was a red world above, as the clouds were black as coal. The land glowed into a sluggish yellow color, as the lake's clear body was now silver.

In a distance, a body or whirling air swiftly recoiled together, possessing its surrounding. I frowned in confusion. I was in the meadows, collapsed onto the soil, in a beige gown. I was all alone. I glanced up at the bloody sky, to only see a figure coming towards me. It was probably a hawk or rather an eagle, due its massive body physic.

I started running through the field, terrified, even though I had no clue why I was running from a bird. My legs accelerated faster as the ground below me began to shake and crack. The ground's thunderous sound echoed as the ground shattered behind me, trying to consume me.

My legs began to ache like they never had before, but I continue to run. I halted to a stop when I realized that the land before me had come to an end. I was at a cliff.

"NO!" I cried in frustration. The ground was going to devour me, into the everlasting fall of eternity to Earth's core. I glanced at the cliff; there was nothing below it, just the vast air. Would I dare jump or let the gigantic land swallowing beast devour me to its darkest pits?

At least I tried. I stepped back a few, and then hurled myself off the boulder. I was such a coward. The air around me surrounded me in force as it hurled me downward favoring gravity.

I never hit the ground. Between my terrifying screams and wails, something grips me from under my arms and lifts me up. I was flying in the air.

I believe I can fly, spread my wings and touch the sky...... The familiar words echoed through my head, allowing me to feel the pleasure of soaring with in the blood sky.

The warmth emitting from the figure above me that has saved me, yearned to me, causing me to favor it. It was time to see the thing that has saved me. Glancing above me, I gasp. It wasn't possible.

It was a man; a holy figure that only would be carved into stone, a statue. It wasn't possible. Maybe I was hallucinating the image of the massive bird, to an angel. When the shirtless angel met my eyes, I frowned but rather saddened. It was his face; the eyes that I would long for; the eye color that was burned and branded into my memory; for I can never forget them, even after eternity.

"Is that you?" I ask, through the wind, still hanging partially in the air. The angel's eyes widened in recognition, and it did something it would never have done. Or at least shouldn't have done.

It let go of me.

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A scream teared out of me, as I jolted awake, drenched in sweat. I gasped for air, as my heart furiously beat as if I truly had died from the fall.

Oh bring light,

Further and more

From the eternal height