For who could ever learn to love The One who doesn't know love?
By Asso
Chapter Seven
Darkness.
And storm.
For who could ever learn to love The One who doesn't know love?
Chapter Seven
Step by step...
Little by little...
Did she notice it?
No.
Or maybe yes?
Her light footsteps... absent-minded...
They were taking her...
The obscure forest.
It was approaching.
Everything was quiet.
Why did she feel this way?
What was that tremor? That trembling inside her?
Demeter shuddered.
She got up, suddenly.
Persephone!
She had to...
She had to reach her!
Demeter ran out like a fury.
"Persephone, stop! Wait for me! I'm coming!"
Zeus had the gaze long.
He could see what others could not be able to see.
One and only one could compete with him.
And he knew that at that moment this other one was observing what he himself was observing.
Like him, the other one too was watching Persephone, as she slowly was approaching the edge of the forest.
The limit of the world of the living.
Beyond which there was no other power than the power of that other one.
Hera winced.
Something was wrong.
She could feel it.
She could perceive it.
As a fury she rose, in the blazing light of the advanced morning.
She did not bother to dress.
Among the puzzled and amazed looks of her maids, she rushed reaching her husband.
"Persephone!"
Demeter was flying.
Literally.
Now she was over the lawn.
She knew her daughter was there.
"Persephone, stop, wherever you are! Wait! Stop!"
Husband!"
Zeus suddenly turned to that harsh recall.
His wife. Naked and dishevelled.
He swallowed. He tried to set the tone.
"Wife, does this seem to you the way to show yourself? Naked and slovenly like..."
"What are you doing, husband? What are you not doing?"
Helios was watching the world from above.
How nice it was!
Demeter had to be proud of herself!
And now, with her daughter at her side, the world would become even more beautiful.
Suddenly Helios' gaze hardened, becoming attentive.
Persephone! But that was her!
What was she doing at the border of the Dark Forest? Where not even his gaze could penetrate?
One more step and she would have been inside of it!
Beyond the boundaries of the world!
Helios was almost tempted to stop his chariot.
Demeter...
Did she know what her daughter was about to do?
Demeter...
And he saw her.
She was flying.
Over there.
Above the lawn.
But still far from Persephone,
She could not see her daughter yet.
She could not see her while she...
"Oh Uranus! No! Persephone! Do not do it!"
Hera ran beside her husband.
Her gaze turned to what his eyes had appeared to watch. Her visual power grew sharper in the mighty aura of him.
And she saw what he was just seeing before.
The lawn.
The forest.
And Persephone.
Who was about to enter it.
As a fury she turned to her husband.
"Traitor! Damned Traitor!"
Helios held his breath.
Demeter would not have made it!
She would not have been able to see where her daughter was, to reach her before...
The reins seemed to become fire in the hands of Helios.
Persephone had entered the forest.
Zeus could not even try to answer.
Suddenly it was no longer morning.
The light disappeared.
Darkness.
Nothing else.
Darkness.
And storm.
End of Chapter Seven
TBC
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Darkness.
And storm.