ENSHROUDING LIGHT

THE DELEGATION REALM

CHAPTER 26

THE DELEGATION REALM

In the distance, music played. Music she recognised from some distant memory. Music she easily welcomed. Composed of noises similar to singing bowls, steal drums, Ahh-sounding tones, and wavy frequencies that were unfathomable by human ears, together making the sound of celebration. The magical music panged at her core. She embraced it, knowing its power to transport, and let it take her. Now travelling at hyper speed, her awareness of another world strengthened.

She shot from the colours and into a gust of milky-white light. As she came hurtling back down, she began to slow. She then drifted and hovered above what looked like an opalescent ice rink. As she bent down and tried to touch it, green wisps sprouted out from her arms and swirled around her, like she was an octopus under water. She pushed up and tried to run, but instead she soared upwards.

Shit. She froze for a moment, concentrating on the music which made her feel drowsy, and drifted back down.

What was she? She closed her eyes, which allowed her to relax and bask in her newfound weightlessness. She'd never felt anything like it. Why did it feel so beautiful and right to be surrounded by such nothingness? No breath. No body. No operating mortal organs, muscles, sinus or bones to cage her, and no heavy brain attached to her mind...she was just an organism. How was this okay with her? Was this presence of absence so mystifying she'd forgotten to panic? Or was there no such thing here? Without her body, she was more alive than ever.

She opened her eyes and the milky light shifted to reveal two spectacular auroras shimmering down a magnificent black dome. As the dome began to twinkle she realised it wasn't black, it was clear. The black was caused by the vast, star dotted universe beyond it, deeper and darker than any sky at night she'd ever seen on earth.

Wow. She'd actually made it! Like a veil had been lifted, this place was more real to her than anything she'd known. Was this what she used to feel like when she was the Designer? Was this place what was really true and normal? Was this actually her home? Did she feel like this before obtaining a body...and would this be how she felt when she died?

A waft of light broke free from the aurora and fluttered past her, carrying with it the remainder of her earthly pains.

She raised her arms towards it, yet they weren't arms; they were wispy tendrils in place of them. She looked from side to side, watching them twist and turn with her movement, flutters erupting inside her. Don't panic! There was no need for arms in this place; all tasks were accomplished by the mind. How did she know this? What else would she know by the time she'd finished? It didn't matter, nothing would change her mind. Adaeze was right; she was still Nevaeh, no matter what she was experiencing. I'll be fine!

Catching a flash of colour, she twirled to see light-filled, multi-coloured waterfalls, spiralling up and down the centre of the floor. Shimmering evocatively, they pulsed and swayed like satin in cool air, enticing her to enter. Her graceful, green orb floated towards them in a trance-like state.

Why was it not strange to have no legs? There was no need for legs! In this place they didn't walk; they moved, they glided, and flew.

She reached the waterfalls and balanced on the inner rim surrounding them. She watched the speckles of light running up and down and began to wobble; her being wanted to attach to one of them. She fought the urge and peered down the tunnel of violet, indigo, azure, emerald, yellow, orange and red. The waterfalls, one going up and one going down, spiralled past each of these fields. As they rotated, she captured a glance of an iridescent core, hovering in the centre, surrounded by a field of green. A wave of sickness flooded into her. Was that her field? The field she'd governed to train Delicate beings before they entered the chamber?