Never Fade Away

[Kessereya]

Listen, children, as I now tell you the tale of a strong spirit. She was once just as you - a spark of life and thought in the vast, unfathomable whole, eager to see and grasp all that her eyes could and could not see.

She walked the path of a Herald - one where she was cast out and bound to a place enshrouded by madness, one where her families deemed her sanity lost, yet through her ramblings, she foretold the changes to come and the turns her close ones would take.

She walked the path of a Trailblazer - one where she, after once more reuniting with her family, has set foot on a journey to foray for lands untamed, for a place where her kin could find shelter.

She walked the path of a Caretaker - one where she would comfort the souls deprived of guidance, those blinded to their cause and their true selves.

But of these stories, children, you have heard enough. Now, I will tell you a tale of her walking the path of a Pilgrim.

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In her meditation, in her reaching deep within into her soul, the Caretaker saw a glimpse. A figure, both incorporeal and feasible. With a motherly care, the figure was holding an unrestful infant, rowdy and powerful, yet still not ready to march onvward into the world. The figure put the infant into a cradle, lulling it to a long slumber.

The figure grasped a strand that bound it to the realm and sliced through it. The figure's blurry shape has begun to dissipate as it ascended into the above. And so, the Caretaker saw the strand that bound her. But she sliced it not, for to slice it would mean to sever her connection with the realm. She knew what step she had to make, yet she would not succumb to abandoning her realm without a glimpse of her self.

And so, the Caretaker has brought two daughters into the world. First was like herself, a wisp of Light, one that would take a mission to guide the souls lost. The second was of blood and flesh, with her task of teaching the importance of the beauty of Life and the Universe. Neither would know of their mother, nor of each other, until the time was due.