We have to
save the sleeping world before it is too late. We have different skills. There
is a great meeting. One is speaking, we dislike him a little, but the kind one
takes his hand, she looks into his eyes and strokes his fingers gently to see
his fear. She doesn’t need to ask him to tell him with her words, it is enough
to care for him, and the images appear from below. Memories of his childhood,
and with them surface a desire, he is telling them what they should do just a
minute ago, but now he tells them where the high tower is, and how far a person
has to climb before he can fall again.
They need
to build a wall.
Outside it
is raining heavily. The one who’s face is half burned away but who is somehow
still more beautiful than most meets him there. He doesn’t even hear her
approach, but see her as the very last thing as he turns around. She is almost
smiling.
Their last
fortress stands next to the roaring see. Darkness and waves as high as ships is
out there. But these are not things they fear. It is something different, something
new that can impress them deeply enough to call for such a meeting as this. It
is usual for them to quarrel but on this day, this day that could have been any
in the thousands of years they’ve been here, it cannot be tolerated. In death
is always comfort anyway, we will do it as suggested.
The builder
was the one who caused their suspicion. He is not one of them. What can he do?
She has been known to bring home all sorts of pets. The council cannot trust
that any man she has taken a liking to, can carry the weight of their lives.
Greater than most and more important. But now, it appears, she and her sister
of, not blood, but bone, have taken away the choice. He will build them a wall
and they will strengthen it with the blood and will that runs through their
bodies, they will bind it with the last of their abilities and breathe sweet
life into it till it becomes a thing of flesh as well as stone.
The
feeling. When she reaches into a man or a woman to hold their heart and crush
their will – or rather, to remind them how much they long to be held, to be
without those heavy burdens that they bear. It truly is great love. She can
make a man feel he is the world, only because where she looks, her whole being
is drawn. It becomes so true, if only for a moment, but such things are
everlasting in the weave. It is an opening, a comfort. It never feels like
breaking, and that is what makes her. She gives them only what they truly want.
Only if there isn’t hope at all. She is not as such a bringer of death, but she
knows character well, and an existence without love, if even from afar, is not
worth it at all. Those who are incapable are that way because they have not
felt it themselves, or they have completely forgotten what it feels like. She
can remind them, so sweetly, that they can be everything. After that, what
other choice? The world is getting darker.