Serenade

Chapter 1

"I Have Found the One Whom My Soul Loves..." - Song of Solomon 3:4

For my kind, time means absolutely nothing. We don't keep track of it the way in which humans do.

We have markers, and we only use them by matter of importance or significance. Depending on the happening or event, we have what are called monuments and paramounts.

Monuments are events that are important to us as a whole, similar to holidays here on Earth. Paramounts are rare and much more significant. They mark only the most important events of our individual existences.

However, here on Earth, it's December 23rd, 1997 - just another seemingly unimportant night among countless others for me.

It's bitter cold outside by human standards, just beginning to snow. However, the stars are unusually bright, even to me, and that's saying something considering that I've flown amongst them. It is as if they are trying to tell me something; share a secret so precious and special, but in my arrogance, I pay them no mind.

I'm perched high above the city they call Indianapolis, atop one of the many tall buildings downtown, just listening and observing as I usually do. However, due to the late hour and foul weather, not many humans are out which actually makes it kind of peaceful.

As I sit here, content to just be, feeling the wind whipping through my hair and wings, I am suddenly struck at precisely 11:14 p.m. with the oddest feelings – longing and...loneliness.

I personally have never experienced them before. These types of feelings and emotions are extremely rare; almost foreign to my kind. It actually concerns me as to why I am suddenly feeling this way, especially here on Earth among nothing but humans.

As I've said, my kind has nothing but disdain for the human race. However, there have been a few rare instances over the countless millennia where my kind has been intimate with humans.

When intimacy occurred, if you could even call it that, it was very short-lived, meaning that it was always a one time only occurrence.

Anatomically, our kind is similar enough to humans which made these unions even possible in the first place. However, that's where the similarities end since our size alone is something that the human body simply can't take, not to mention our strength or our feelings, whether it be hate or even indifference. 

If my kind don't morph into our humanoid form first or take certain precautions during the act, then the human almost always ended up dead quickly...if they were lucky. None of my kind has ever cared enough to protect or heal a human though, let alone anything else where they are concerned.

This type of thing was only done out of curiosity or oddly lust on rare occasions. Of course, the human had to be extremely exceptional in every way that a human can be in order to even capture our attention in the first place.