[Story Time]
The air is bitterly cold, biting at my skin, my goose bumps raised, my breath is heavy. The first snow of the year will mark my new birth, the gift of oneness awaits me. It is the night I will be inducted, like those in my family before me. Years of study and training have lead to this moment. My family has had so many disappointments, I will be their first true Gemontgy offspring. We have no place for normalcy. Hunted to the brink of extinction, we have survived by using our gifts, and keeping or society exclusive.
I see the elders before me surrounding the sacred fire of Geomoth, the caller, who sent the message to all Geomontgy that could hear his message 500 years ago. He now lives in the fire, bonded to it so long as the flame stays lit. It was a message that spanned seas and nations. All of the most gifted were the beginning of our civilization. Feared for our power, we were hunted all over the world. We found new power in numbers, and begun a new era for the Gemontgy.
The doors open in the great hall to reveal to my eyes what I had already seen so clearly. The energy in the room has surrounded me. I do not dare move, as the most powerful of us are in the room, poking and prodding my mind for weakness. My muscles are tense, not a breath is taken, I can hear them moving about my psyche. Without warning the invasion stops, and a path is cleared to the fire of Geomoth. I approach and look with the chaos.
The room vanishes, and I am taken in. Darkness surrounds me for a moment but then in the distance points of light emerge. I have only heard stories of this moment, which were all cut ever so shortly to end the same way, it must be experienced.
A feeling emerges from me, and I know he is here right now. No words are spoken. My skin begins to burn and I scream in pain but no sound is emitted. A white light envelopes me and the feeling is intensified the burning is unbearable. I am being immolated, why has no one spoken of this! Just as quickly the room disappeared it suddenly started emerging, and with it the pain ceased. All of those in the room then surrounded me, embracing me as if they knew the pain I had just experienced.
A voice from the corner emerges, it is Denieth, "We experience the pain as you do Cali. At every rebirth we all connect and the a great pain is shared. You have now been granted the gift of oneness with us. "
He raises my shirt to reveal what looks to be a brand that must have been the result of the fire of Geomoth. His face turned from a sternness to slight bewilderment. He then began to speak to the council.
" The brand is not that of Geomoth, I do not know this brand!"
"What is happening?!" I voiced in great dismay.
"I do not know, but we must be weary" Boomed Diemoth.
The brand is still smoking but no pain is being felt by myself or those I am now connected to.
The voices emerged ...
(to be continued...)
The air is bitterly cold, biting at my skin, my goose bumps raised, my breath is heavy. The first snow of the year will mark my new birth, the gift of oneness awaits me. It is the night I will be inducted, like those in my family before me. Years of study and training have lead to this moment. My family has had so many disappointments, I will be their first true Gemontgy offspring. We have no place for normalcy. Hunted to the brink of extinction, we have survived by using our gifts, and keeping or society exclusive.
I see the elders before me surrounding the sacred fire of Geomoth, the caller, who sent the message to all Geomontgy that could hear his message 500 years ago. He now lives in the fire, bonded to it so long as the flame stays lit. It was a message that spanned seas and nations. All of the most gifted were the beginning of our civilization. Feared for our power, we were hunted all over the world. We found new power in numbers, and begun a new era for the Gemontgy.
The doors open in the great hall to reveal to my eyes what I had already seen so clearly. The energy in the room has surrounded me. I do not dare move, as the most powerful of us are in the room, poking and prodding my mind for weakness. My muscles are tense, not a breath is taken, I can hear them moving about my psyche. Without warning the invasion stops, and a path is cleared to the fire of Geomoth. I approach and look with the chaos.
The room vanishes, and I am taken in. Darkness surrounds me for a moment but then in the distance points of light emerge. I have only heard stories of this moment, which were all cut ever so shortly to end the same way, it must be experienced.
A feeling emerges from me, and I know he is here right now. No words are spoken. My skin begins to burn and I scream in pain but no sound is emitted. A white light envelopes me and the feeling is intensified the burning is unbearable. I am being immolated, why has no one spoken of this! Just as quickly the room disappeared it suddenly started emerging, and with it the pain ceased. All of those in the room then surrounded me, embracing me as if they knew the pain I had just experienced.
A voice from the corner emerges, it is Denieth, "We experience the pain as you do Cali. At every rebirth we all connect and the a great pain is shared. You have now been granted the gift of oneness with us. "
He raises my shirt to reveal what looks to be a brand that must have been the result of the fire of Geomoth. His face turned from a sternness to slight bewilderment. He then began to speak to the council.
" The brand is not that of Geomoth, I do not know this brand!"
"What is happening?!" I voiced in great dismay.
"I do not know, but we must be weary" Boomed Diemoth.
The brand is still smoking but no pain is being felt by myself or those I am now connected to.
The voices emerged ...
(to be continued...)