Epilogue 1: What Lies Between the Stars

Ashley trotted down the corridor, doing her finest to keep up a dignified posture as she did. Her makes an attempt have been met with solely reasonable success, contemplating there was solely a lot dignity a six-year-old may actually muster. However her classes with the Nighty Knights hadn’t gone completely to waste on that entrance.

“You completed your chores, Princess?”

Ashley stopped mid-stride, head whipping round. “Gigi!”

Her great-great-grandmother chuckled as Ashley rushed over and climbed up in her lap.The girl wore a set of easy however completely spotless priest’s robes, as she often did, with an outdated handmade scarf twined round her neck.

“I did, really,” Ashley confirmed with a definitive nod. “I completed them this morning!”

Final 12 months, as a five-year-old, she did not have chores. As a six-year-old, although, effectively, she was doing vital work serving to the household.

“Excellent, Princess” Nice-great-grandma Bee smiled as she ruffled Ashley’s hair. This shut, Ashley may really see the barest wrinkles forming on the corners of her Gigi’s eyes.

Her dad stated that her great-great-grandma was outdated, far older than she appeared. Actually, he claimed that there have been much more ‘greats’ in her identify, however she wasn’t certain if she believed that. She’d seen outdated folks. Previous folks have been all hunched over, with grey hair and quiet voices and that plodding stroll like her gramma had. Gigi, however, was the image of well being and vitality. Solely these wrinkles on the corners of her eyes stated that she was older than, say, 25. Ashley’s personal mother appeared older than great-great-grandma. However then once more, her mother known as her great-great-grandma as effectively.

“Inform me a narrative,” Ashley demanded. She did not just like the tales that her mother or dad informed her. These have been for little youngsters. However Gigi all the time had nice tales. Historic ones. Tales concerning the founding of The Kingdom and the start of the world. The girl informed them as if she had really been there.

Perhaps she really was. In any case, her portrait was the primary one within the Corridor of Rulers. However Ashley wasn’t so certain. Nobody was that outdated. It was most likely simply because Gigi was the very best.

Her great-great-grandma smiled down in that heat approach she had, brushing some hair out of the little woman’s face. “Nicely,” she began, “I believe I’ve one you’ll take pleasure in. It began in an historic citadel…”

Ashley smiled at first of her favourite story, wriggling with delight as the lady continued to talk. “In the future, some wizards who thought they have been very, very intelligent determined to forged a spell. They needed to summon one thing large and highly effective, a demon robust sufficient to battle their battles. However they have been fortunate. As a substitute of some devouring beast come to scour this world, they known as one thing else. One thing to this point out of their expectations that they ran like scared little kids…”

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“…After which the wonderful Lord ascended on excessive and set the celebrities of their correct locations. The earth shifted,the seas stilled, and the world ordered itself into the gorgeous grid we now stay in” the lady completed.Yôur favourite tales at novelhall.com

Ashley sighed contentedly on the story’s conclusion, then frowned as a thought struck her. “Gigi,” Ashley requested, “You imply the world wasn’t all the time a grid? How did anybody discover something? How would you even draw a map?”

“Nicely, it actually appeared much more haphazard,” Gigi admitted. “However folks made it work. Actually, it took them quite a lot of getting used to. Particularly how the entire lakes turned sq….”

Ashley sat up all of the sudden. “What?! Nuh-uh. They’ve all the time been like that! Now you’re simply messing with me!”

The girl chuckled good-naturedly. “Regardless. That’s the world we stay in at present.”

“However…” the woman frowned once more. “What occurred subsequent?””Nicely, naturally, the world was ordered, however the folks weren’t. The folks have been confused and scared. All the pieces had all of the sudden modified round them. However Lord Void, in its infinite knowledge, left us right here to help and lead them.”

“In order that’s if you conquered all the things?” Ashley blurted out, then slapped her hand over her mouth as Bee gave her a delicate however stern look.

“That wasn’t the way it occurred. Who informed you that?”

Alone now, she sat again down in her chair and stretched. At stage 99, she did not get stiff muscle tissue, tiredness, aches, pains, or any such inconveniences. Regardless, stretching nonetheless felt good. And regardless of the near-perfect situation of her physique, the years weighed on her thoughts.

Someday round after her first century, time had began to maneuver quicker, but it surely was repetitive. Whereas there have been many new issues on this planet, and it was thrilling for some time to discover, the brand new experiences weren’t as new as they could’ve appeared at first. Between that and seeing so many different folks cross her by… she was able to see what was subsequent.

Pulling up her character sheet, she smiled on the full factor.

Title: Beatrice Marie D’Lestrange, Degree: 99, Race: Human, Class: Spot’s Prodigy, Titles: The Guiding Mild, Sensible Daybreak, Void Blessed, Queen Ancestor, Demon’s Bane, Devourer of Leviathans, God Touched, Angel in Ready, Age: 237

Energy: 21897

Intelligence: 319204

Structure: 174839

Dexterity: 328394

Charisma: 4294827

Notion: 482953

Will: 603958

Religion: 9999999999999999

Magic Protection: 100248596

Bodily Protection: 9373911

Regeneration: 908732

With a deep breath, she transmuted the final of the magically-dense materials in her cupboard space. The joys of energy coursed by means of her because the outdated, acquainted feeling of a stage up greeted her once more. Her final title modified as she launched her maintain on the world and adopted the light pull she may really feel coming from Void. Now it simply stated Angel of Spot.

It was time to serve her grasp immediately once more.

Bee was pulled up into the heavens, the celebrities speeding previous her in neatly ordered grids. In what felt like solely a blink she arrived in a brand new house, huge and incomprehensible but in some way cozy. Distance appeared to don’t have any which means, though she may inform that the room was completely sq. and plenty of instances the dimensions of the world.

At its middle, Void sat on a rug woven of superbly glowing stardust. A second rug, no much less in its splendor, sat in entrance of it.

Bee folded herself right into a cross-legged place and took her personal seat. She felt tears start to pour freely down her smiling face as she met the black disk’s in some way heat gaze.

“I’m dwelling, grasp.”