Sunrays and Moonbeams

History

"Once, long ago, before our planet existed the gods decided theywanted a planet, so they took an elder god to become the planet. Hewas close to death and as he died he became our home. His skin ourland, his blood our water, his dying gasp trapped and became our air,the last energy is how we got our fire spots, his hair became ourvegetation, his veins became our homes, his teeth our mountains andhis eyes became our three oceans." Lenore finished speaking asGregory, who had been apprenticing under a Scribe, quickly took thenotes. We had found him some parchment and a writing stick. Of coursethe parchment wasn't that strong but we could still use it. In ourold libraries every library would have a permanent copy made ontablets and the ones on parchment were handed out to be read. Whichwas how scribes had work, there were always new parchments to bereplaced, to be made for someone who wanted to read it whenever theyneeded, to teach new hatchlings.

Right now we were writing as much as we could so that we would havethe stories to pass down to our young ones when the time came. Beforewe forgot it. Luckily we had Lenore who was trained from practicallyhatching to remember the most important of our stories.

But with the fact that she went through not just the destruction ofher world and the death of all her family and most of her friends,she also lost her mate. So much. How could we expect her to rememberour stories when she was going through that? The fact that she hadn'tkilled herself meant that she was putting her all into helping us, tobeing only for our murmuration.

Which I guess that would be best, the emptiness of losing your mate.I have never felt it and I'd rather never have to. I don't even wantto contemplate it but my heart went out to my nestling friend. Whatwas shocking was that more didn't do that, more didn't end upmateless. Which meant that there were definitely more who were alive.There were only so many planets that could support us, when we gotsettled we would send scouts to send others to the other sevenplanets to find them. We will once again be a full people.

Looking down I see that Theodore had crawled over to me and chuckled,picking the hatchling up and setting him onto my lap. "Not caringmuch about the mythos, Theo?" I teased moving my wings to wraparound myself, and him, to blanket him in love and warmth.

The hatchling yawned and nuzzled against my chest, as I grabbed someof the strange light green hard outer sphere that inside was sweet,soft and juicy. I held him with my wings as I held it and split itwith my hands. As it was soft enough that even a hatchling would beable to eat it I could just scoop out a little.

With a little tilt of my head Sarah, the mother to another hatchling,came over and took one half of the fruit going to sit with her mateJohnny and Klarissa and Damien so that Rosemary and her own hatchlingCaleb could eat while listening to the mythos and I fed Theodore.

I scraped out the seeds which could go to the two nestlings and otheradults. I used my two fingers and thumb to pull out a bite sizedlight orange fruit offering it to Theodore who guzzled the bite sizedpieces seeming happy to be able to eat without help.

"How about I tell you something more interesting Theo? Like howI'll win your mommy's heart?" I asked and he licked his lips tograb the last of the juice. "Well the first day I found her aflower as close to as beautiful as her as I could find, the secondday I spent the night watching over her, remember you were there to?"I teased offering another bite and he happily took it. I shook myknee a bit to gently bounce him as he loved his little silvery whitewings flapping. "Today is the third day. I will offer her a pieceof myself; a lock of hair." I blew a stray lock out of my magentaeyes with a gust from my mouth. He giggled and I rolled my eyes.

"Yes, yes, it's all funny. Daddy is being silly. Wait until youfind your mate my little hatchling~" I tease and tickle him a bitas he pointed to the fruit and I hurriedly offer it to him, thisbeing the first time he had done something like that and I happilywould make sure he knew how to make it where I knew what it was thathe needed.

"But the fourth day I will follow her about her day, but I muststay hidden. This is to show that I will be a good provider. Thenight I will leave her a single of my feathers." I hummed butunlike before I do not grimace at the pain that will come frompulling the feather out when it is not molting. It would be a smallprice for her. "Then the fifth day I will reveal myself to her, shewill see me for the first time and you." I add with a smile and hegrins as if he knows it will be but days before he can be with hismommy.

"Then the last five days," I sigh remembering being told by myparents and even some by Damien when I worked up the courage to askhim what it was like to find a mate. "The sixth day I willintroduce her to you....you are my only family now my son." Iwhisper my mind going back to my own parents, his parents, and mysisters. "I will tell her all about the rest of our family, and shewill tell us of hers and introduce her to her own." I grinnedthinking about meeting her flock. Then I groaned, "the seventh,eighth, and ninth day. Making our home while she makes our nest. Butonce those three days are over we will never be apart again. Thetenth day we will be entwined fully." I hummed and as Theodoreturned his head being done with the treat I took the final bite andturned to see how much was left. I pulled it up to take my fill ofthe treat as well. It slaked my thirst even better then water did.

"And The Old Crone turned the curse into a blessing. Making ourBeast instead of being blood thirsty, horrid thing become a way forus to find our mate, have our mate." She sighed and I wondered howher own Beast was acting. Was she still kicking, or was she gone?"She could not get rid of the curse the Jilted Lover had cast butshe made the hate into love." She finished and smiled gently, "sowhenever you hear the voice in your head, it is to protect you andyour mate."

"I never liked this story." I whispered into my son's ear. "Iprefer the story of the Twins or the Righteous Man."

I know that itis short but I liked this too much to not go into some more of thehistory of these space angels. I could turn this entire book intotheir history, I promise I won't but it is tempting.