Major Arcana

The Lovers - Chapter 6

It's like she's watching a movie on a split screen. On the left side, she could see a comet falling. On the right side, she can see herself falling at an uncontrollable speed, ripping through the Earth's atmosphere. The heat of the comet is intense and the glow is blinding. Had the comet not remained unseen to the untrained human eye, you would have thought God himself was coming down to cast his judgment on all of man kind. As she closed her eyes tighter, her vision shifted to a starry sky. She could see stars exploding and galaxies forming. In the heart of a particular galaxy, a Nebula was forming. This Nebula had colors she had never seen, or could have even imagined, with her human eyes before this very moment in her consciousness. The colours were a mix of gold, silver, red, blue, green, and pink. In the heart of the Nebula was a large pulsing orb. A pastel purple orb.

She breaks away from his embrace, unlocking her lips from his. Her heart was pounding in her chest, her ears were ringing, and her pastel purple eyes started to glow. She started shaking with tears welling up in her eyes. “I don’t... I don’t understand.” Looking into Phatasmos’ glowing pastel lavender eyes. She wanted to throw herself at him and bury herself in his chest, but instead she just stood there. Her whole life was starting to feel like a puzzle to her. She looks down at her hands, tears falling down her face. “What is this? What am I?” Phantasmos steps towards her, whilst quickly putting the heart-shaped stone rock into his pocket, and grabs her by the arms, pulling her into his chest. “Shh, I know baby. My sweet Love. I can explain.” petting her head with one hand, and rubbing her back with the other hand.

Arcana is still in his arms. Phantasmos takes a deep breath, closes his eyes, hugs her tight in his arms, and starts in a slow, careful tone, “Arcana, My love, my Nebula... You were not born a human. You were created from one of the most absolute and purest forms of energy humans can manifest and create together.”

Grabbing a chunk of her hair, pressing his face into it, as his lips brushed against her curly hair as it fell down her ears. She could feel how warm and soft his breath was, as it petted her ear with every word he spoke through the strands of her curly hair. He continues, “You came down inside an unseen comet with The Universe for safekeeping. I had to beg and plead for your entire existence to be spared and saved. I would have done anything to keep you company on your journey, had I known your memory would be taken away. " He breaks away from his embrace, steps back from her. He looked at her and she could see his expression had changed dramatically, he seemed torn and sullen. He stops petting her head and takes the heart-shaped stone rock out of his pocket and holds it in the middle of his hand.

With his other hand, he lets go of her and cupped the heart-shaped rock with both hands. He made a small hole between both hands and brought his cupped hands to his lips and blew softly into his hands. A cloud of gray dust blew out as he opened both of his hands. Arcana tried to get a better look into his hands by shifting her stance and standing on her tippy toes. Phatasmos let a small smirk slip from his lips. His hands started to glow and the rock in his hands began vibrating.. and then it glowed pastel purple phosperance. He held the rock between his fingers and held it up to Arcana to show her. Her mouth dropped open as she gasped. "How did you do that?" She asked bewildered, "I didn't do anything. This is its original form. It was a gift from me to you, but I guess being in this environment made its color dull. It's gotta be this f*cking planet".

The heart-shaped rock glowed and shimmered a beautiful pastel purple. It looked like an exotic piece of jewelry from the 19th century. "This... is mine?" She reaches for it and he places it in the palm of her hand. "I wanted to turn it into a necklace for you, but you know... Kind of hard to put a necklace on a Nebula. Guess I could do that now." He winks at her, while smacking her behind lightly, making her yelp in surprise.

Arcana stops mid smile, "Wait, what do you mean...Nebula?" Phantasmos c***s one eyebrow at her with a slight narcissistic tone, "My Love, please, don't ask me questions you already know the answer too. Didn't you see it? Just now, when your eyes were closed." with a heavy, annoyed sigh, shaking his head as he walked towards her, reaching for her face to try and kiss her. Arcana slaps his hands away from her face, jumping back into the doorway of the balcony. "WHY DO WE HAVE THE SAME EYES?!"

"Arcana....You don't know who I am. Fine. Do you know who YOU are?" Feeling offended, Arcana blurts out "Duh, Arcana.."

"Okay, Yes.. Do you know WHAT you are?". Visibly annoyed, "Uh, Human?" Phantasmos tries to stifle a laugh, seeing how Arcana is not in a laughing mood in any way and this is already NOT going the way he expected it to go. "By far, my love. By far." Phantasmos walks past Arcana who is still standing in the doorway and is making his way towards the kitchen deep in thought. 'I wonder why her memories were taken away... I wanted her to be safe, but not like this!'

Arcana's phone lights up, an alert pops up on her cellphone from one of the health apps she uses, 'don't forget to eat breakfast!' 'breakfast already?' she glances over at her phone and sees it's already 9:15AM. 'Three hours passed by already?! That's odd.' she thought. Either time is moving super fast, or she is extremely distracted. Her morning routine has been interrupted and it looks like she's going to miss breakfast, not that she really cared much for breakfast in the first place. Feeling petty, she got annoyed because 'at least she has the option of eating breakfast by sticking to her morning routine.'