Chapter 1:
I do not want to battle, nor to seem evil, doing good is my goal.
On his left a small burbling stream, a young man sat on a large river stone, his feet barely reaching into the water. Since they were hot and irritated by climbing and walking, the young man savoured the moisturing coldness of the creek.
Elegantly winding through a rock-covered surface it lead into a small lake just a few meters below. The lake itself, just under 4 meters broad, felt like an oasis in the barren area, which seemed like a dessert except for the hot and arid air that one would expect in such an environment.
Similarily to the above however there was not one impact of humanity around for as far as one could see, not even nature being part of this wasteland except for the obligatory bugs and mice.
In fact the only animal larger than a man's hand was an oddly coloured, blue-black cat directly across of the young man, staring at him with facial expressions that reminded the casual observer of a human face in contrast to the animal this creature posed to be.
The young man finally woke up from his sleepy state of deep thoughts and, raising his eyes, met the cat's gaze. "What do you think, Kirjava?" The cat answered his questioning glance with her seemingly all-knowing eyes and responded: " I think we should continue resting for a bit: both of us need to be rested by the time it happens, and we still have some left before it. Wasting the strength - that we have need for - would be foolish."
"You're right" Will answered "But...!"
Kirjava interrupted him: " You can't acclerate events yet to come, not in the past and not today. I, too, feel the same desire, but you know that what I'm saying is right!"
Will sighed. Of course she was right, deep down he knew that. Since his daemon was part of him discussing with her was nothing but useless.
His feet were still red and throbbing, but since they weren't hurting anymore and because the only reliever he had on him was his precious bloos moss balm, balm which could come in handy later on, Will took no action against this problem.
Instead, just to calm his hasty demeanor, he asked:" What were her words again, Kir?"
Though Kirjava knew that Will could propably repeat the prophecy in his dreams, she still started to recite, in order of pleasing him:" The angel Xaphania told me:
I foretell you that we are going to see us again, since during the Great War, in the world that your kind called "Republic of the Heavens", the oldest of our brothers seized to exist.
After his perish, after his atoms bonded with those of every little thing in the universe, a seal broke. The seal, containing one of the most well guarded secrets of the known universe, takes 6 days of our time, thus 6 years of yours, however, until it can be opened and unreveled. This, of course, is due to the Creator of Worlds taking 6 days to create life before he himself could rest.
You have to prepare well, and if that is done you can meet me at a place where your world allows the establishement of an Opening of the Angels."
