[Lammy]

"What is death, Elys?"

 

The old cat takes his precious time with a cane in hand walking with his sister and those that came before him to the family bench.

The echo chamber that is his mind constantly asks such a heart-wenching, sad question.

What is death?

 

"It depends on what you believe. However, I think it's fair that we look into the good book to describe what death is. Don't you think, Priscilla?"

 

The withered pages of an old, brown book, the Codex Cosmos, opening up to the page that describes death -- but he never reads it. He leaves it open so that the ohers can point at it and realize why it is neccessary. Even if sad, it is something that everything must face eventually when they walk upon Eternia with mortal flesh.

 

"People see death as an end. I see it as a way to finally move on and try again. I was asked this once, years ago, what death was, and I think I have an answer."

 

"Death is the saddest part of a song before it comes to an end. Death is the saddest thing we face as we get older and realize that we will see more death than life. Death is the conclusion to every wonderful story that follows when nothing else can be told. Death is liberation from the self and to be a part of something whole."

 

"We are all born to die eventually, some sooner than others. Some stories do not get the chance to be told and some stories are written too far and never want to see an end. Those that are scared of this end, never are able to write the perfect story, for they fear what comes after, because of the lost faith."

 

"I know that when I join the cosmic order of things upon my demise, my duty will never end. I know that when I die, I will come back when I am needed the most, with my memories gone, with a new power in me. This is the cycle that we go through, of life, death, reincarnation as was the grand design -- yet people want to disrupt this."

 

"It's... silly, isn't it?"

 

Every wave that washes amongst the sand must rejoin with the sea eventually.

Every soul that inhabits a body must return to the stars someday, even if it is by force.

Even the primordials above are capable of dying -- why do you think they shy away from the potential that man can do?

 

"It has been a long, long life. I have given to the world my best of children, and they have given themselves children and the like. In the Gardios line, Sigismund was able to reach the title of saint. He is everything that I wanted to be, and if I wasn't born with faults, then perhaps I would have achieved it in my own accord, but... this is fine."

 

"I prefer this, truly."

 

The book closes with the wind, and a wonderful silence comes.

 

"Goodnight, Eternia. Tomorrow will be better."
  

FIN.
1830 - 1915