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Chapter Thirty One~ Life Within a Life Part II |
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I felt the tears pour down my face and splash onto his face. It was so a rest, so at ease! He couldn’t be dead! There was no way he was dead!
He was so full of life! No!
I knew there was a crowd of people around us, I could faintly tell they were there. But I don’t care about them. I just care about Hyiru.
I was kneeling over his corpse, my tears soaking his hair and face. I pressed my hands to his face, trying to keep it warm.
I felt a hand on my shoulder. I tried to choke out a response, to tell them to leave us. However my mouth opened and some strange words feel from my mouth.
“Illist varas ni johiera! Arohiera aste!”
No, go away from here! Leave us alone!
My hand flew over my mouth as more, fresh tears dropped from my eyes.
Hyiru, you are so kind. Even as you lay here dying you gave me a gift that I never deserved! Hyiru, you have granted me a life that I didn’t deserve.
The hand pried me back, and a soothing voice tried to reason with me.
I slapped at them, screaming again, this time I remembered to speak my native tongue.
“No! He can’t be dead! He’s just asleep!” This horrible sobbing noise that was my voice grated on my ears.
I could barely see through the tears but I felt the person pull me away. They spoke softly in my ear but not a word registered.
I cried out in anguish and despair and collapsed into myself. I felt the weird stranger take me in arms.
He spoke to another person and they loaded me into the ambulance with Hyiru. I daintily took his hand, sobbing out the final resting hymn he had given to me.
“Yalla norray asju havookiv aslis nowwa, balovi akcmania.” I whispered to him, press the back of his hand to my lips.
“Stars and fire eternal, grant you peace and life forever….” The man across from me murmured, sounding somewhat stunned himself.
I looked up at them man. His deep mahogany eyes stared wide at me, his tanned skin looking pale and sickly.
The man took my other hand, squeezing it tightly but not so much that I hurt.
“Allasa darragodda mien yashuda.” He whispered, kissing my fingertips then pressing the back of my hand to his bowed forehead.
I will stay with you.
I started to dry again. I reached out and hugged him. He patted my back, softly singing a song in that lovely voice of his.
I was vaguely aware of everything after that. I kind of remember being taken out to the waiting room, being hauled into a room, a pure white room. I vaguely remember the people. All dressed in white… none in black…
I sat there and waited. The man with the mahogany eyes came often. He sat across from me in the large room on a white stiff chair that they hauled out each time he left.
He would sing to me and tell me news of any one looking for me or Hyiru. Of course he didn’t know who Hyiru was.
Nobody does…. Nobody but one other…
After a long time passed. I don’t know how long. The lights have been turned off twice or so on me so I’d guess two days…
But on this day, the mahogany-eyed man told me that Hyiru’s body has gone missing. He was going to say more but the pager on his belt beeped and gave this hissing, otherworldly screech. I screamed back, clasping my hands over my ears.
He left quickly, apologizing to me about the noise before shutting the door.
I flinched at the sound.
Slowly it trickled back to the rhythmic ‘shhh’ of the filter in the upper right hand corner of the room… the white room…. The death room…
I heard an unfamiliar sound. One so light I barely heard it. I glimpsed up to see black.
I thought I was going blind for the briefest moment. My vision nearly consumed by the overwhelming black.
However with another faint swish of fabric that porcelain ivory face was staring back at me. His intense dark, cobalt eyes bore into mine.
“Rhyns.” He said softly.
I felt the room fall onto its side. My head spun. I wasn’t Rhyns…. Was I?
“Rhyns…” His voice sung out, extending the vowel.
The room spun and blurred but I felt that it was slowing. I grabbed out for him, trying to right my self.
He took my hand, pulling my above the tumult.
Yes, I am Rhyns. And He… he is Anako… I remember things… too many things.
“Are you alright, Rhyns, Keeper of the Self and Ego?” He asked.
Right then it all clicked.
All of Hyiru’s memories, all of Yaro’s memories, all of Galiena’s memories and all those before her fell back into neat orderly piles. Everything sorted its self out neatly and free of chaos. It was weird, how everything just seems so right in my mind now.
I can almost feel them in my mind. Their voices whispering things to me. They tell me that this being before me is a god among gods. The God to be specific. He holds our lives, our reincarnation in his hand. They tell me that he is so powerful that he has only be reincarnated four times.
I slowly reached out and took his face in my new hands. They were still the same sun-kissed hands but they seemed stronger now. I seemed stronger, lighter… wiser.
I leaned into him, touching my lips to his.
It felt like I was kissing a block ice yet it was warm. My lips felt that burning sensation of frost bite with the pleasure of a warm hearth.
“Anako…” I breathed, my lips flitting against his as I mumbled out his name.
He turned his head, dragging his nose just under my chin. He nipped at the base of my jaw then brought his mouth to my ear.
“We must leave. Hyiru is wanting to be taken to the other side.” His voice tickled my ears, making them ring.
I nodded at him. I could feel the warmth and life that Hyiru possessed bubbling up inside me. I smiled widely at him feeling the strength of a hundred suns radiating out of me.
Anako smiled his usual small smile, which I now knew was his most genuine smile. I wrapped my arms around him, sinking into the folds in his immense robes.
Everything got lighter and I felt him explode beneath me. I watched the shattering beads of his life break away and fade into the starry abyss.
The cold closed in on me, kissing my skin.
“Wait for me.” The voice trailed away, echoing out around me some how.
“I will wait forever for you!” I shouted back.
“That will not be necessary.” The voice laughed.
He laughed. Yes, maybe I wouldn’t have to wait forever for him….
 Ray the Good Soldier · Fri Nov 09, 2007 @ 04:48am · 0 Comments |
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