Journey Into the Knight

Chapter Thirteen

The sky was unnatural. Thick clouds of grey mixed with the orange hue that came off of the flames that surrounded the world around her. The air was thick and hard to take in, making her want to start coughing immediately. The world seemed angry. The atmosphere was unforgiving, but she still got to her feet. The grass that she stood upon was not lively and fresh but charred and dead. She closed her eyes slightly against the smoke that invaded her site, making her eyes water. She was surrounded by dancing flames that had no beginning and no end. She looked around, it seemed like there was nowhere for her to from here, she was stuck in the middle of a sea of fire. 

A flash of white off to her left make her turn. A child no older than ten walked through the flames, as if the heat and smoke did not affect her. Her face was emotionless, long brown hair waving behind her on an invisible wind as she walked closer. YongSun watched in awe as the little girl in the thin white dress approached her through the flames. Neither of them said anything until the girl was no more than four feet from YongSun. “Who are you?” YongSun managed to say without choking on the thick smoke. “Where am I?” Her throat felt very raw. The last thing YongSun remembered she drank the unbinding potion in the Knight village and now she was here. 

The young girl tilted her head, as if examining YongSun, emotionless face unchanged. “I go by many names Kim YongSun.” YongSun’s eyes widened at the mention of her name, how could this child know who she was? “But I am the essence of the Dal, or as modern times have named me: the Lunarous.” 

YongSun could not believe what she was hearing, this was the other half of the Uju. “Is this what you look like in my world?” Maybe this was key to finding the Lunarous in the real world. 

She shook her head. “Unfortunately I have been stuck here for some time, you could say in most ways I do not exist in your physical world, kind of like how the Solarous was here with me until you arrived.” 

“So what is this place?” She said looking around at the burning world, it looked like hell. “Is this some sort of punishment?” 

Another shake of her head. “This is the plane of the SinTag, the place where our past, present, and future exists, it is the one that you are connected to the most being the TaeYang essence.” The girl looked around. “This is the past, we are currently near end of the Night War.” That explained the flames. “You are here to learn of your past to live you present and to make a better future, a better one than we made.” She looked sort of sad. If they were in the Night War, then this was almost a century ago. 

YongSun took a look at the unchanging flames that raged on around them. “What am I here to learn?” 

The girl moved so she was standing beside YongSun, facing the same direction. “You are here to learn of our mistakes.” She started moving forward, when she realized YongSun had not moved, she motioned for her to follow her. “This was Kim YongSun, you must learn.” 

YongSun hesitantly followed the girl, pausing briefly when they approached the flames. The girl stepped right though, leaving YongSun standing alone. She took in a big breath. “Here goes nothing.” She closed her eyes and took a large step forward, the flames caressing her skin, but they did not burn her, they embraced her and engulfed her, until everything went black. 

When she opened her eyes again, she was no longer standing in the burning field, she was standing outside a house made of mud. The girl stood outside of it, looking at it fondly. “This was our first existence.” She stepped through the opening. In the middle of the one room building was a sort of cradle, two babies lay inside of it, sleeping. “A set of twins, one  male, one female. They were the beginning of the great force of the Uju, they ensured the continuation of the human race, protecting them.”