Order’s Sanctuary

Order’s Sanctuary

By Aaron James. 

I feel a warmth, a swelling in my heart that compels me to look to the future. I feel a change in myself as though I have been given a new body but my memories are all a blur. The warriors who saved me from fading away, I can’t remember what they looked like but I remember their names and all that they hoped to achieve. 

This world hangs in the balance between order and disorder. The winds howl and then cease, the oceans rage and then go silent, the earth blooms but then decays, and fire perhaps the most violent of all, burns bright and then sets the land ablaze. There is a place of tranquility and calmness, a sanctuary to which I have come. There is so very little I understand and yet so much to do. I must help them, the ones who risked all to save me. 

I have seen many realms beyond this one. They come to me in my dreams. These countless hours spent learning of their stories, of their noblest sacrifices, all of it has not gone unnoticed. But what can one such as I do? I am but a single being hanging on the threads of existence myself. Taking into account the many failures of my people, I have learned that ambition no matter how noble can often lead one astray if they do not know compassion. I seek to restore order, but as powerful as I have become I have also become weary. There are many battles ahead and I do not have the strength to face them alone. 

At the edge of this world there is darkness that threatens to take all that it consumes with it into an endless void. If there is darkness there must also be light. Could the light be within me? Or am I rather the light that cast this shadow in the first place? I must see this through to the end. I will gather what strength I have and when the time is right I will bring them here, my warriors, my children whom I have adopted in my mind. I will give them the power left to me to fight this void. To find their inner strength and purpose. I will act as their guiding light and stand together at their side in harmony. All that is good in me is because of them. And all that is good in them came from a love beyond anything I could ever hope to become. 

I will become harmony in the face of despair.