Part VI: Death is timeless
Watching a fire burn one can experience a moment in which all reality is represented. It eats the fuel that it has and in this way it is as ephemeral as time its self. For a reaper, time is not linear. Yesterday could be a Scottish Moor as it was for Deviel and today is the fourth of January 2086 for me. The period of time in between is immaterial because the days are not counted as one proceeds to the next but rather any proceeds to any. It becomes aparant to me in times like this why God created the universe: because existing outside time and space is exhausting.
This can make living a human life stabilizing to me. As it was the first time I made love to Deviel: the wind in between worlds kissed our ambivelant naked forms as we melded souls in the eternal abyss. As much as we experienced this emotion, our aomebic forms stretched across space and time to every creature feeling exactly as we did in that every moment.
You see, the tunnel between worlds stretches across all time and space so that all time and space has access to both heaven and hell. As we were, our forms were like a great white gelatinous spirit blob that would seep through the pours of this swirling gateway to seek out the human emotion known as love and live that knowledge in our embrace. In all recall, I do my best to describe it using words the human mind can understand but there is another language of sensation that is impossible to dictate to any mortal at any time.
This romantic tryst, however, is entirely draining and though Deviel, not being an angel cannot, "take a vacation," I find it useless were I not to take advantage of the ease of human life. One might query, "what about your duties while you're living as a human?" To this I say your lives are as brief as a fly flapping its wings once. In the grand scheme of my duties, 8 human lives are but a flash in the pan.
I have many reapers but time means nothing to eternity in the timeless tornado between the worlds. I can live a human life and then go back to the moment when it began as if nothing happened at all. The paradoxes perplex, I'm sure, but there is no need to concern yourself. There is a body that mimics my actions that holds a place in time but my consciousness does not have to be there.
I have loved in human form and it seems like forever but to know forever is painful when I think about it in human form and peaceful as the grim.
Humans focus on things so ephemeral because they exist in a world that ends. Hubris and pride leading to murder was especially poignant in Deviel's most recent case because the human flaw is timeless but the moment meant nothing. I am curious at times, however, what can be considered timeless to a reaper or a Grim?
This can make living a human life stabilizing to me. As it was the first time I made love to Deviel: the wind in between worlds kissed our ambivelant naked forms as we melded souls in the eternal abyss. As much as we experienced this emotion, our aomebic forms stretched across space and time to every creature feeling exactly as we did in that every moment.
You see, the tunnel between worlds stretches across all time and space so that all time and space has access to both heaven and hell. As we were, our forms were like a great white gelatinous spirit blob that would seep through the pours of this swirling gateway to seek out the human emotion known as love and live that knowledge in our embrace. In all recall, I do my best to describe it using words the human mind can understand but there is another language of sensation that is impossible to dictate to any mortal at any time.
This romantic tryst, however, is entirely draining and though Deviel, not being an angel cannot, "take a vacation," I find it useless were I not to take advantage of the ease of human life. One might query, "what about your duties while you're living as a human?" To this I say your lives are as brief as a fly flapping its wings once. In the grand scheme of my duties, 8 human lives are but a flash in the pan.
I have many reapers but time means nothing to eternity in the timeless tornado between the worlds. I can live a human life and then go back to the moment when it began as if nothing happened at all. The paradoxes perplex, I'm sure, but there is no need to concern yourself. There is a body that mimics my actions that holds a place in time but my consciousness does not have to be there.
I have loved in human form and it seems like forever but to know forever is painful when I think about it in human form and peaceful as the grim.
Humans focus on things so ephemeral because they exist in a world that ends. Hubris and pride leading to murder was especially poignant in Deviel's most recent case because the human flaw is timeless but the moment meant nothing. I am curious at times, however, what can be considered timeless to a reaper or a Grim?
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