ALOCH

She falls unconscious, did I do that? I am not sure but after being so close to me again she is still alive, I am afraid to carry her but hy is it that I cannot stop myself? My hands move and I touch her, she lives still, my touch still does not kill her, her life is her own so I carry her. I take her to my place, a place that I almost never use. I watch her sleep till the morning; she opens her eyes ad looks at me. I wonder what is going through her mind, she does not look scared. She asks me instead, “Who are you?” I promised to give her an answer if she ever saw me again, is that why she asks? I do not know whether introducing myself is okay, knowing me might bring her into a world that she does not belong. But they are already after her, why does she make me involve myself in the world of the living? She is innocent or maybe I am making assumptions too soon. I look at her and give her an answer” Aloch”.

YUL

So that is his name, Aloch. I give him mine but he still shows no expression, what made him this way I wonder, the cold empty presence that I can feel changing my life. He speaks to me, he says that knowing him will put me in a world of night, a world of so much darkness that I might lose myself in it but he assures me that he will not let the night harm me; he says that he will protect me and that he will not let me get hurt. He does not even know me, the assurances of stranger that walks among monsters, but it does make this easier because if he were to just leave me again I would have followed him into the night, I want to know why I do not feel any life from him. What could do this to a person; he is not a monster, why does a person that gives off such an evil aura have any kindness at all? Why am I getting sad just thinking about it? He tells me that I am free to use his place, that will be safe in his house. I am fascinated by him, I have written about things from a realm of fantasy but to have an encounter with something that does not even fit in that?, I cannot stay away I am drawn to him.

THE GATE KEEPER

He will not be able to keep himself from it, his clock has already begun, he is curious about her, about the creatures of the night and why they are after her but then again that is also an excuse that he needs, he cannot accept that it is her he wants to know, not right now, but he will. Because of her, he now involves himself in the world that he had ignored for millennia, the creatures of the night all who at least know of his existence have always done as they pleased, he who had the power to stop them was never motivated but now the dark world will face its ruler, the relentless sword of the old world, a warrior with no equal cursed to roam the earth as a consumer of life and bringer of death. The dark world is his domain and for the night creatures to reach her, they will have to go through him and to even attempt that, even demons will e summoned.

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She is drawn to him, so much that she would follow him into danger, into a world that does not belong to the living and she would do it without a second thought. Is there nothing I can do to ease the journey before them? The pain that lies ahead of them, no matter what choices they make, they will not be able to run from the tragedy that looms. He was chosen to follow the path of darkness for the greater good, the decision to follow the set path was always his to make but with her arrival into his world, the choice has already been made in fact, she was born for this very purpose. The future will have a pure soul stained with darkness and a dark soul emitting a blinding light.

Today he visits one who is slave to greed; his name is Aki, a creature of the night. Many years ago Aki and his followers approached Aloch to get him to lead a campaign that would enslave the living, Aloch declined but his power was so great that Aki decided that if he could not have Aloch’s support, he would instead steal his power, the one time in the last three thousand years that the un-dead being bore his fangs in anger was when he was provoked by Aki. That incident unbeknownst to ALoch saved the world of the living, with the dead and creatures of the night seeing Aloch as guardian of the world of the living. Aloch was not trying to protect anyone, he just wanted to be left alone, even today Aloch only knows Aki as one who has just always been there; he hardly even remembers the incident that etched itself in Aki’s memories. Aki has spent many years learning about Aloch and trying to find his weaknesses, he has studied ancient texts that talk of the unreadable language of the divine and knows of the existence of the book of the living, the book of the dead and the book of the un-dead; he knows that Aloch has been looking for ways to end his own existence.