Preface - The Corporeal Pull
The darkness slowly crept forward, consuming all that it touched. Each living entity that came in contact with the scourge was forever altered by the pure evil of its unyielding approach. Some entities capitulated and allowed themselves to become a part to the spread. They were converted followers of this plague of darkness. Others were swallowed up by the darkness in a manner that ended their mortal placement. The lucky ones went quickly and could make it back to the Tweens before becoming one of the lost. The unlucky ones lingered too long and were forever estranged from their part in eternity by the spread of the scourge.
No one could find the originator of the Scourge, but the league of guides had learned that it was being fed by the woes of the world. Each act of crime or of violence added to its spread; for centuries, it spread slowly. Communities and human entities were stretched apart. Less interaction among mankind made for less violence. However, overtime the population of earth slowly grew, and with it grew an impetus for violence. Now, it the wake of the modern era, humans, led by course instincts compete over scarce resources and the Scourge capitalizes on their weaknesses. It flourishes after greed. It wears lust like its own sweet perfume. Surely, it is a temptress in its own regards. It longs for revenge. It draws in the week in spirit, the addicted, the lonely, and the abused. Once it has consumed them, it is ever hungry for more.
Liam was created to confront the Scourge. He does not see the destruction that it has left in its wake. He does not fear the evil that he refuses to see. He is noble and pure and perfect to Terra, his guide and his love. And he is doomed. He is like a sacrificial lamb to help bring the Scourge under control; and Terra’s place is to bear witness to his pain and perhaps to his destruction.
Terra fears that this earthly placement will be both the beginning and the end of existence for her love. Yet she is poised to send him forward to his corporeal life. She will be his immortal guide, but what can she do to save him from an evil that he is meant to face? How can Terra save an entity whose destruction will help to restore a more workable balance on earth? How can she not save the only entity that has made her existence take on a clarity that she needed for centuries?
No one could find the originator of the Scourge, but the league of guides had learned that it was being fed by the woes of the world. Each act of crime or of violence added to its spread; for centuries, it spread slowly. Communities and human entities were stretched apart. Less interaction among mankind made for less violence. However, overtime the population of earth slowly grew, and with it grew an impetus for violence. Now, it the wake of the modern era, humans, led by course instincts compete over scarce resources and the Scourge capitalizes on their weaknesses. It flourishes after greed. It wears lust like its own sweet perfume. Surely, it is a temptress in its own regards. It longs for revenge. It draws in the week in spirit, the addicted, the lonely, and the abused. Once it has consumed them, it is ever hungry for more.
Liam was created to confront the Scourge. He does not see the destruction that it has left in its wake. He does not fear the evil that he refuses to see. He is noble and pure and perfect to Terra, his guide and his love. And he is doomed. He is like a sacrificial lamb to help bring the Scourge under control; and Terra’s place is to bear witness to his pain and perhaps to his destruction.
Terra fears that this earthly placement will be both the beginning and the end of existence for her love. Yet she is poised to send him forward to his corporeal life. She will be his immortal guide, but what can she do to save him from an evil that he is meant to face? How can Terra save an entity whose destruction will help to restore a more workable balance on earth? How can she not save the only entity that has made her existence take on a clarity that she needed for centuries?
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