Chosen Quest - 6 - A Time to Die
Jul. 4th, 2006 02:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
withamagicword15,000 years, give or take a year, later...
He lay in his bed, eyes slowly blinking.
His breath was slow, labored, and hard in his ears. It had been a good run, and the time, the sands, were running out. He lay in his bed and he knew he was surrounded by his loved ones, but he couldn't see, couldn't hear any of them.
All he knew, was that the light was growing stronger and his heartbeat, the slow thrum of it, was slowing down.
His breathing slowed as well as he smiled.
***
And in his room, his descendant felt a smile cross her face as well, as the old man, relic and legend of a far long past age, breathed his last...
***
He was in a light, with no pain, no troubles, and he felt like he was floating. There was a brilliant light ahead of him, drawing him, but even as he floated towards it, it changed, shifted, and there was a door, a door that looked strangely familiar.
And he staggered-floated towards it and then....
and then.....
He lay in his bed, eyes slowly blinking.
His breath was slow, labored, and hard in his ears. It had been a good run, and the time, the sands, were running out. He lay in his bed and he knew he was surrounded by his loved ones, but he couldn't see, couldn't hear any of them.
All he knew, was that the light was growing stronger and his heartbeat, the slow thrum of it, was slowing down.
His breathing slowed as well as he smiled.
***
And in his room, his descendant felt a smile cross her face as well, as the old man, relic and legend of a far long past age, breathed his last...
***
He was in a light, with no pain, no troubles, and he felt like he was floating. There was a brilliant light ahead of him, drawing him, but even as he floated towards it, it changed, shifted, and there was a door, a door that looked strangely familiar.
And he staggered-floated towards it and then....
and then.....
