Angel's Lament

Angel's Grace

Angel's Lament

Welcome to the next passage in the Angel's Lament series, and thank you for taking the time to read this and the chapter below. A forewarning this chapter is longer than the others, though not too much longer but still longer. Along with this, there is a lot of lore and exposition in this chapter as it's mainly about Antros figuring what he has to work with. I hope to make the next chapter finally get to some real action, though it might be more about Nikolaus again but let me know how you feel about that. Also, this chapter has what can be considered somewhat unbelievable situations, but please keep in mind that I know this but I enjoy the possibilities they hold for the future so I included these elements. As well as I hope to at least explain some of these somewhat unbelievable circumstances. And now with my jabbering done, please enjoy Chapter Seven...

Chapter Seven: Angel's Grace

The Psychic beacon quickly got the attention of the Void Whales, they slowly began to turn toward the Sanguine Spirit. Antros then began to let the beacon fade once the Chartist Fleet was far enough away to be out of harm's way. Antros quickly then began to channel his focus and energy into sending a message to the two Void Whales. He continued to work on and channel his message, Artemis all the while assisting where she could to make the message as clear as possible. After some quite some time working on the message the whales finally faced the Sanguine Spirit.

Their emotions still like wildfire panicked and disorganized, though they were no longer rushing toward the Star-Fort simply now observing it as if waiting for the beacon again. Then once the message was clear enough Antros sent it through the warp flying towards the two planet-sized behemoths. The message showed them how he meant them no harm and that they were in no danger of attack.

The message reached them far faster than Antros thought it would and they responded soon after, their message was far less coherent than Antros's but he made sense of what they emotionally relayed. They were afraid and worried, one of their children was seriously wounded and they were trying to protect him from the 'Lights'. Antros quickly sent a reply back asking what had happened. A moment later they responded showing Antros their memories of what had recently occurred to them.

They showed Antros how they had been migrating to a new system since the death of their last. And how just as they had been about to end their century-long migration and enter the new system they would live in, one of their children screamed out psychically. Explosions followed the screaming and their child was left wounded. They showed Antros how they had then seen a series of bright lights in the distance, and out of fear they moved to attack the lights believing them the cause of their child's pain.

Then they had been struck by a searing light and fallen unconscious only to awake with each other and their children still out cold. Then they saw in the distance again those same lights. They had once again begun to charge after the lights fearing for their children's safety. They had chased the lights for some time ultimately stopping when they saw Antros's beacon. Antros quickly told them that the 'Lights' had not done it and that the 'Lights' were simply fleeing out of fear from them.

The Whales responded with more emotions than words relaying that they felt regret for causing the 'Lights' distress but that they also sent a feeling that they now meant no harm upon them. Antros told them back that he understood and so he forgave them for startling his 'Lights'. Antros then asked what had happened to their children. The Void Whales Auras became alight with fear and worry again. They then quickly began to turn around and began to fly off back into the void from where they had come from. Antros sent a small message telling them that they could consider him a friend if they were ever in need of help. They didn't respond but simply continued to fly away fear still permeating their Aura.