Ten miles 23

Epilogue

A/N: I cannot change how this posted/format sorry! When you read this chapter, forget about time. Its really weird, but its like everything is happening at once, or all at once. Just a heads up.

Feng Jiu took the moment to gaze out at the trees, her relatives, and friends. This world was different and new. There was so much she still had to do, and a place in society would come after her children grew a little older. Three small children were going to be a task.

The journey was long, but the destiny they shared had been worth it. Looking up at Dong Hua, he was already staring down at her. Love. A love I never thought I'd have, she thought and reached for him. It still overwhelmed her sometimes.

The indifference and coldness of his gaze had fallen away. For her, she'd found peace and love. Together, they were never alone. She could still remember the day she'd first met him, the first day of walking through heavens gate.

"I'd never change a thing," she whispered. Every step had led her to this life and to this moment.

Dong Hua pulled her closer and kissed her cheek. "Me either."

Feng Jiu saw two threads float by as she rubbed her swollen belly, but they were not tied to anyone. How strange, she thought. Her eyes were glued to them. She'd never seen anything like this before.

The wind blew, and blossoms scattered. Attuned to her as he was, Dijun felt rather than saw it. He'd felt it the day he wanted to die along with her.

Fate was here.

From a short distance, a pair of eyes watched with joy, but they were not really there. The feeling was real, yet it was fleeting and in the moment. The moment was not linear, time is not linear. A smile emerged, but it was not part of a body. Invisible hands weaved threads of immortals fate like always, but only one person would help tie them together someday. She was made for it.

Feng Jiu was in the arms of her protector.

And Dong Hua protected the world.

This thread was done, and as such, Fate severed it into two and blew a breath on it that wasn't there. Only once the current thread was severed could a new one begin. In only this moment was there rest. The threads were free and floated along with the wind where she saw them. While Fate was then, she was now, yet what she saw was something in between. Only she was allowed to see them in this way. And one day, she would see them again.

Time was not linear. It was not constant. It flowed endlessly forward and backward.

The threads would float along with the wind until the time of their merge; the instant their two physical parts (see note) came together in the womb of their mothers. They would bind and create the essence of immortal life and would grow into an immortal being. This immortal, like all others, had a purpose to protect and guide mortals.

Note: ie sperm and egg/and no it does not have to be limited to the male-female for pairing, but it does to create new life. so destiny goes into a pre-ordained body which only that body and that life can have that destiny)

What Feng Jiu didn't know was that now is then, and then is now. She saw this beginning, but this had already happened.

One day, Feng Jiu would see them again in the people they would become. One was older than the other. One life would begin first. The sight let her see beyond just what was happening 'now'. When these two came together in the future, she would understand this talent and she would remember seeing their destiny before they were even people.

Even chaos had its way of order. Each thing in the universe had its purpose. Fate smiled at its most glorious creation as it saw Feng Jiu in Dong Hua's arms. Though IT had nothing to do with their bodies, a thread needed it to create life. Could one exist without the other? No. Life, destiny, and body were their own. Those like Fate-created their parts. Somehow everything worked independently.

Dijun nodded to the wind, and Feng Jiu saw the threads disappear. To herself, she said, "I wonder where they went."

Two names appeared on a distant stone that few people ever saw. First one, and then another. They lingered in gold.

Somewhere in their world, a baby cried.

Some years later, another would also cry.

A little boy played outside and collided with a little girl headfirst. Both fell down. When they looked at each other, time seemed to stop. Their parents rushed to them immediately.

Feng Jiu rushed to her son and helped him up brushing off the dirt from his clothing. Liang Song went to his daughter and helped her stand up. He was talking to her, but she argued with him about how it was the boys fault. He looked to Feng Jiu for help but saw how she stared between the children.

"What is wrong, is he hurt?" Liang Song asked. "My wife will kill me. She just made this dress for you," he told his stubborn daughter.

Dong Hua stood beside Liang Song and didn't see anything wrong with the children. The wind blew and leaves scattered everywhere. "Feng Jiu?" he asked his wife. She'd not spoken in some time.

She laughed then, finally understanding that moment so many years ago. Smiling up at the two men, she took the little girl's hand, and then her sons, and placed them together. The children's eyes went wide as they stared from their hands to one another. Though they didn't feel a physical pull yet, they felt the connection. As children, they had not progressed to that stage in life yet. But everyone knew that when Feng Jiu put your hand on another's, it meant you were one and destined for one another.

Dong Hua and Liang Song both wore stunned expressions. "They are?" both asked at the same time.

"They are," she replied as the children sized each other up. "Fated, I finally understand it now." This is something I am meant for. "I saw them that day before they were even born."

Dong Hua knew.

The leaves and or the wind always blew that one certain way when someone checked in on them from time to time.

Fate nodded then in agreement, and two names on the fate stone glowed in a deep golden hue. The names were joined and encircled on the stone now standing out among the others who are yet to be paired. Right beside Bai Qian and Ye Hua, Liang Song and Chen Yu, and Feng Jiu and Dong Hua.

Fate severed a thread and began anew.

~#THE END#~

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Princess Agents. I've been writing this on and off in parts, so it will publish quicker once I get started. I promised I would not publish another story until this one was completed. Now I can move on to my second TV show characters. It's a good watch if you haven't seen it and is Chinese historical. I will do the same for this. Please check out This Intensity (steamy) and I will probably bring over one from Moonlight that was a vampire show way back.