They exist among us in secret. Their ancient war has spilled across the borders into our world, and what passed for blood from their undying energies inked the provisions for a skin-deep truce.
They are the two great primal forces; the superpowers of the afterlife. One spawned by light, the other by darkness. One tasked with recycling immortal souls into human bodies, the other with banishing them into a perfect, grim prison.
They come in many forms but all of them discreet, misleading. Some humans see and name them as angels. Others worship them as gods of destiny. All reduce them into familiar myth and superstition to dull the world-shattering implications of their existence. And so the two warring camps find their most consistent and harmless disguise in the shape of immaculate storks and ravenous crows.
Any human word or symbol would be a cliché because they're as natural a part of life as the laws of physics or the nose in the middle of one's face. The only cliché is man's tendency to value one to the exclusion of the other. In truth, the two forces necessitate each other; they're two sides of the same supernatural coin.
Who would believe the truth even if it stared us in the face? Many choose to ignore it, content to live in the safety of lies, the delusion of control. Humans find comfort in the belief that we devise our own fate and expend time in our own steady pace, but deep down we know we're merely sojourners from this realm to the next. Behind every wall and through every crevice, other worlds lie well beyond our senses. Exactly parallel to our own dimension yet incredibly exotic, perfect antitheses of each other: Helium, kingdom of the great white storks, and Monsterland, territory of the dark reapers.
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