Send a Messenger

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Jupiter had suffered a special kind of restlessness when his younger brother had left for the pits. Images would come to him of his life there, disturbing the Elvish inner equilibrium, although his outer composure remained regally sedate. What was the attraction Titan had for the Mortal world?

They had tried to get word to him when Shiva had passed behind the veil. Nothing seemed to penetrate the dense ethers of the lower worlds.

“Send a messenger” was the Mastiff’s suggestion. And so they did - Tok - an Angeloi of distinction - but he also had not been heard of ever since. And so the memorial was held without either being present.

Death in the Heavens, although infrequent, is much of the same as it is in the Elemental world - however, it is openly heralded to be that of an awarded time, a bridge crossed, a period completed, a set fulfilled, with a new one begun.

The word itself (death) used to translate simply into salt - meaning to stop - where a condition realises its finitude. And so the release from death into a higher world again was always celebrated and understood to be inevitable and respectable. Yet, as with any other world, the remainders feel the vacancy sorely, and lament the distance placed between them and those who have travelled ahead.

Sadness, deep sadness, can become a caveat for change. Jupiter needed the comfort of his brother now and in that moment decided with the spirit of his mother at his side, that he himself would endure the vile atmosphere of the warring clag of Earth, to go and retrieve that of his own once and for all.

-Gabriel Brunsdon, Finding Self - Second Guesses- Azlander Series