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The First Lesson
"Oh, God," said Sirius. "Oh God, Oh God. Please mister, I had no idea."
"Don't worry," said Eggbert. "You had no idea."
Sirius started pacing in the snow. "Oh God," he continued to say over and over again. "I really did kill someone. After all these years. Am I going to hell?"
"Oh no." said Eggbert with a smile. "No, yourstaying up here until I teach you a lesson."
"A lesson?" said Sirius nervously, thinking he was going to be punished.
"Your first lesson in heaven," said Eggbert.
He began to walk away form Sirius looking all around, taking in the happiness around him. He turned his head toward Sirius.
"In life, there are no random acts. Every single being is connected. Life can't be separated from another."
Sirius was lost in his thoughts. "We were playing a joke," he said more to himself. "We were playing a measly prank. No one was supposed to die. It's not fair."
Eggbert smiled again. "If life was controlled by fairness, a lot of good people would still be alive.
"In every person, in the reaches of their soul, they know that all lives traverse. Life doesn't just swoop down and take away a life, it also spares it. In the small distance of the spared and sacrificed, lives are altered.
"You say that it was unfair that I died. Someone else could of easily have died: The couple walking out of the shop, a shopper absentmindedly walking around, one of your friends, or even you. You may think these mishaps are accidental, but they're not. When one person dies, a life continues, learning and listening.
"That is why Birth and Death are so important. One, the happy beginning, the other, a sad end."
Sirius still wondered. "I still don't understand why you had to die. I mean what good came of it?"
"People's lives continued," answered Eggbert.
"the lives of strangers," said Sirius bitterly.
At that, Eggbert grabbed Sirius's shoulder.
"That," said Eggbert quietly and magically clear, "Is the beauty of it all." And the world around Sirius exploded.
Eggbert's life swam into Sirius's soul. He felt everything Eggbert ever felt: jealousy, disappointment, determination, happiness, and the killing pain of the piercing icicle. The morphed into Sirius, melting him, completing him.
"Time to fly," said Eggbert over the magic. "You've gotten through the first lesson." And he slid away from Sirius, back to his own heaven, as Sirius flew away into another.
