The Blood Cross

Chapter 10

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Drips of water could be heard here and there in this vast silent world making Evan finally open his eyes, waking him up from his slumber and finding himself bare feet, standing over a shallow ocean with a diamond blue sky without any kind of clouds above his head. This was an odd world, different from the ones he have seen before, like for example, it's the first one where he experiences colours, since usually his dreams are in black and white, or duotones. But in this one, he could see the variation of colours reflecting in the water.

Trying to understand this dream world, he walks ahead, finding amusing that he can walk above water - just like that dude, Christ! - as he progresses, he notices that this world lacked something: sound. No sound was coming from his footsteps or wind. This was a static world. And a couple of hours later - or what it seemed to be hours - he sees a black dot right at the horizon, and decides to sprint to reach it. It was amazing of how in his dream he could run so fast, when usually he's a bit shabby when it comes to physical attributes, and in a couple of seconds he had reached his destination. Ahead of him, is a 2 meter diameter black sphere floating in the air a couple of meters above the water, composed only by black feathers that looks like it is rolling constantly to its centre.

He slowly decides to touch it.

And the sphere stops rolling with its dark patterns opening up like a flower, layer by layer to the point of forming the figure of a person floating in the air surrounded by dark threads.

"You have finally reached me, my other me." The person, who is actually a man with a powerful low pitched voiced, speaks. "I forgot of how long I have been waiting. Do you know who I am?"

Evan stands speechless when the man shows his real figure, the black long haired man that he have been dreaming his entire life, stands ahead of him, with those purple eyes, the same as his, staring directly to his being. But the most surprising is that this time he could perfectly understand him.

"Do you finally understand the words that are coming up from my mouth?" The man asks, and Evan nods back to him. "Ahhh. It seems that you have finally grown up, I sense the astral waves around you spreading like roots just like those from our mother tree. This is brilliant, we can finally speak!"

Evan is surprised to see that the man is smiling in the most childish way, contrasting with his intimidating figure.

"Before you, I have seen many, many faces. Men, women, children... all of them from different backgrounds, ethnicities, nationalities. Rich, poor, different ages... But none did actually understand me, and all have perished without us even talking. So I have decided to look upon them all while waiting patiently until the day I'd found someone like you. I forgot already of how many centuries have passed and was getting worried that I'd forgotten how my own voice sounded." He smiles again. "I hope this haven't frightened you child. What is your name?"

Evan still mesmerised by that man's beauty tries to speak. "My name is... Evan, sir."

"Evan, just like Heaven our home-world Jannah..." He approaches him a bit more and stares at him directly in the eyes, making him feel even more uncomfortable due to the fact that he felt like a hobbit next to that incredibly tall man who kept staring at him like a curious child. "Please forgive my rudeness, but the resemblances amazes me, you cannot imagine from all the faces I have seen, all of them, exactly all, shared the same eyes as me. I believe this has been my gift to you all." The man, showing signs of serenity put his right hand above the left side of his own chest. "Evan, I shall present myself. My name is Heliel Noctis Dei, and in the past I have been known as the Creator's left hand the one who covered the dark skies with stars and knowledge, the Morning Star."