Earth. Such a tremendous place. So much darkness across its greatest depths and so much light among its dreadful heights. It was first filled with speechless creatures. Afterwards with logical and intelligent species. Humans. ...But what was in between? What was before humans and what was after the voiceless animals? What did the ancestors see and, thus, the folklore was born? What terrified them? What did amaze them so much that forced the myths and legends to spread across the seven seas? Why do they all sound so much alike?
Most people were taught that humans are the only logical beings to have ever existed on earth. ...Some believed it. Some did not. Either way, no one really knows what lurks within the endless depths and heights. But still, those who believed were labeled as "lunatics". ...The truth is...that not everything is for every eye. Some things must remain hidden in order to survive. Like an instinct for self-preservation. Like self-protection.
There are things in the human world that exist in secrecy. A different world within the human world if you'd prefer. And in my world, they have a proverb for this. "From the very first moment an infant opens its innocent eyes, it experiences the struggle of nature. It struggles to take its first breath. It struggles to see. And it listens. It hears its mother's struggle to deliver a live miracle, a message of infinity. The cycle of life."
Every being, logical or not, experiences this same struggle from its very first moments. The terror of existing within a world it fears. A dangerous world. Nature. ...But every tiny being born has a fearless guide and protector. The mother. The most powerful creature. Capable of calming the fiercest seas and storms and capable of tearing the sky open to protect her own little miracle.
Everyone, some more and some less, know what a protective mother is capable of. ...But what if there are mothers that are capable of even more? Mothers that hold power beyond imagination? How much would that change our perception of reality? How much more would that world within the human world have the guts to do to protect their young? ...What if they were literally capable of tearing the sky open? How would humans react? Would they hunt them down? Would they erase them from existence just because of their own selfish ego?
As for me,...I've experienced that power. I've torn the sky open and fate may be planning for me to do it again. I'm a part of this power. Or...more accurately,...it is a part of me. ...Who am I? Hm. Don't worry. You'll get to realize that soon enough. ...I've so much to learn from you. And you've so much to learn from me. Just trust your instinct. It will reveal me to you when the time comes.
(c) Aikaterine Koukis 2017
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Otherworld Legacy Trilogy | Nightfall (Book 1)
غموض / إثارة"Fear the night for what it hides.", Rihanna, Nightfall Seishiro was raised to be an expert assassin. He had a "normal" life. Until an ancient artifact is stolen from his clan. Prejudiced by an Omen of imminent war which accompanies the artifact kno...
