3-053, Ancient Witch Revealed

There was no immediate reply, just the sound of hands being vigorously rubbed together.  In time, the person at the fire stood erect, pulling back a fur-lined hood with slender fingers now returned to life and feeling.  With one graceful movement, the cape, with hood attached, was swept from handsome shoulders revealing the comely form of a woman goddess.  Tall, muscular, sensual, the fire could not disguise this woman’s beauty.  As young in appearance as a sprite, but with a haunting face and furrowed brow as ancient as the mountains, this woman was no child, but an ancient of Ancients, a witch from before the dawns of time.

The firelight flickered across ghost-grey eyes, revealing a latent power held in check by an iron will whose struggles had weathered such a handsome face into stone-like beauty.  But the eyes burned bright, full of spirit, even as the body gradually withered from a cancer slowly consuming its might.

There was no smile in the woman’s reply…no emotion nor energy…it having been consumed by the winter storm.  “I took the lone night patrol along the Nebulan Cloud Bank.  It interrupts our inter-ship communication as well as our scanners.  No one is expecting to hear from me for many hours.”

Looking around the room, the woman shook her head, recalling innocent days of long ago.  “I have not visited this place since the constellations of the AntonSodoney rose in celebration over the southern hills of EdenEsonbar and Gradian’s Clock chimed the coming hour of rebirth.  That is nearly twenty-six thousand years past.  Was I the last of my kind to seek the solace of this haven?  For I sensed my spirit still lingering upon the handle of the door.”

Green eyes twinkled, recalling fond memories, while a head nodded dreamily.  “Yes.  Yes, it is so.  Do you not yet know that you, alone, have been my only love to have discovered this place?  I built it for you, my lovely one, long ago, when the universe beyond EdenEsonbar still belonged to the ‘Ones who came before’.  It is full of mystery and secrets that only you hold the key to.  I had envisioned it as a gift to you when the secret of life was revealed to my children.”  The person saddened, shaking her head.  “Alas, it shall never see such innocent mirth as I purposed.  This place will, instead, become your sanctuary in future days when the worlds are again at peace.  I am but the caretaker of it until that hour arrives.”

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