Elrich Saga Yellow Springs Book Two

Chapter 33- I Find My Marbles and My Purpose

Chapter 33- I Find My Marbles and My Purpose

It was dark here. A nothingness that seemed familiar. There wasn't any pain this time, that was good. A place of nothingness and no pain, I could live with that.

There were small needle points of light in the distance. Why did they disturb my darkness? I wanted them gone. Why wouldn't anyone turn them off? Damn, if you wanted something done, you had to do it yourself.

I willed myself to those dots. Floating in the darkness was like floating in the ocean. I could feel waves of darkness pushing against me. Trying to push me away from my goal. No dark ocean wave was going to push me out of the way. I was going to turn off those lights and sleep.

The first light was the brightest. The brightness dimmed a bit as I neared it, or maybe my eyes were just getting used to the light and it just didn't seem as bright as before. Either way, my goal hadn't changed.

The light wasn't just a light. It was a window? Mirror? I could see an island through the light.

It probably had once been a tropical paradise. Now it was burning. Thick black smoke obscured most of the view. There were bodies piled up in rows along the edge of the beach. Far enough away that high tide wouldn't claim them, but as far from the burning areas as possible.

Who had lined up the bodies? Were there people down there? What had happened to cause so much destruction?

Curiosity was getting the better of me. What sort of a disaster had hit this island?

"I guess you could say it was partially our fault."

Edomael was suddenly beside me in his winged shiny state. He looked like he'd just gone four rounds with a champion boxer and was KO'ed at the end. It didn't look like there was a place visible on him that wasn't burnt or bruised.

"We were serious when we told you we were in the middle of an emergency." He waved his hand at the image of the smoking island. So this was why Amoris looked like she'd survived the apocalypse.

"We all managed to survive, unfortunately, we weren't able to save the majority of the mortals. We failed. When gods fail it's not usually on this epic of a scale." His wings drooped and his tail swished behind him agitated.

"What happened?" I was really very curious.

"Foolishness happened," he sighed deeply. "I believe I understand why my brother wanted you here in Elrich so badly. I think he saw this disaster coming."

"Why didn't he stop it? What do I have to do with it?" I was beginning to lose my apathetic feeling. A burning began in my gut.

"It's more that he had a feeling something like this would happen. He didn't know when, where, or even how it was going to happen, but he knew something would happen.

"I think he brought you here because of your odd fate. It's all over the damned place. Not even the best of us can predict what is going to happen to you next. That will be a huge asset in this case."

"What do you mean?"

"I can't tell you much right now, but I can tell you that some gods are involved in what happened down there. They are directly responsible for this," he waved at the island. "While the rest of us are indirectly responsible for not seeing it and preventing it from happening."

"If you didn't know it was going to happen, how are you responsible? Sounds like you are blaming yourselves for something you can only see in hindsight." Here I was giving advice to a god. Man, I really needed to get back home to my sane space. This was crazy and even crazy me knew it.