The Touch
1074 Words
UNKNOWN POV
I am on special order from my mistress herself.
“We don’t have much time. We must find them now. By any means necessary.” Her words rang repeatedly in my head, implanted there as a warning. We were running out of time.
For a millennium now I’ve been her right-hand man and confidant. Aura seekers are uncommon, but we do exist. That means I can see different color auras of all manners of creatures. For example, animals on all worlds normally have green or red indicating whether they are safe or not. Humans and supernatural alike tend to be a plethora of colors, like mimicking a rainbow, all indicating different things about them and who they are.
You’d think that would make it easy to spot the one we’ve been searching for, but for quite some time now, I have come up empty-handed. There was a brief period of toxicity and darkness back when my mistress started feeling restless and infuriated with the fact that no one had found them yet.
She had started to feel like she was in danger, for others might be after them as well. We stopped for quite some time so there could be peace in the Invinci Realm. I am hopeful we do not end up that way ever again. It was truly a dark time among the immortals.
To assist the cause in the meantime, my mistress’ soldiers and I, we have been responsible for keeping the peace between all realms. Of course, that has ruffled a few feathers over time but even so, it is a true honor to stand by her side.
For this mission I had roamed through 9 realms aimlessly and with no destination in sight, in hopes the one might turn up. The prophecy never specified who it would be exactly or where they would be, only that as an aura seeker I will know them immediately when I see them.
After double checking my map of the realms, I realized I skipped one location. In the beginning I thought it couldn’t be so… The Aethel Realm, filled with humans and some species of supernatural creatures. So, I never went or thought I would have had to venture there.
I laughed while running my fingers through my hair as I contemplated whether it was a joke or if the universe did choose someone from The Aethel Realm to be the one. It couldn’t be possible… right? I hesitate at first, but I remember my mistress’ detailed request: I must look everywhere and leave no stone unturned.
Doing these missions has gotten swifter and more discreet over the years with my invisibility charm. It allows me to cloak myself while I’m searching so that way I won’t run into others that might inquire as to what I’m up to. Even the most powerful enemies shouldn't be able to sense or see me.
So here I am on this beautifully starry night blazing quietly down from our heavenly realm through the clouds until I see city lights littered throughout my journey. Buildings of all shapes and sizes, streets, multiple cities, states and countries to go through. I started through Antarctica and all I found there were mostly animals and extremely cold weather.
I ventured up through Australia, Indonesia and China. Through Russia, Germany, France, Africa and still nothing. There are so many beautiful sights to see but I try not to focus on that and make a mental note to see more later. South America ended up being a bust too. Nothing in Argentina, Brazil or Colombia. I fly through Mexico and keep going until I am over a state my map has the name for, it reads “California”. What odd names for their homes, I wonder why they call it that.
I fly for what seems like hours and I was about to make a turn but before I did I started to feel something. I look to my left and there is a slight glow appearing, I can just barely see it, and my map starts to change to the name “Washington”. I zoom closer and the
glow starts to get bigger. Could this be what I was searching for?
As I continued to fly towards the glow, I realized it was away from city lights in between trees in the middle of a forest. What would they be doing all the way here?
The trees get much bigger and taller as I reach and I see the light tone down slightly to reveal a subtle glow that meant a fire was lit previously and I see a bit of smoke rise in front of me. It doesn’t smell unpleasant like usual, and a sweet aroma hangs in the air. I fly a bit closer and see little specks of ash floating through the air and it brings my attention to a figure lying near where the fire was lit.
A girl, extremely young looking with fair skin that looks like it might be the softest I have ever seen on a human. With her dark hair it seems as if she is still light itself and has a soft glow to her that is almost regal. Her face reminds me a bit of my mistress’ and as I get closer, I can see light freckles under her long eyelashes that flow down to her nose as if she had been kissed by the sun and then that’s when I see it.
A small shape of a crescent moon appears on the middle of her forehead and like a snap out of a trance, I know what to do. I lift my own hand closer to the crescent and lightly touch it, take a deep breath and re-iterate what my goddess told me to.
“May you be the one, that we have been searching for. Our past, present and future. May you reign over all” and I sealed it by kissing her right on top of the moon mark and it went away. She didn’t shift or move at all, and I knew because she would start going through her change soon that she would sleep it off and maybe wake up a bit disoriented but all in all she would be okay.
I hurry back to my mistress with glee to relay my information. For at last, we found her.
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