CHAPTER 6THE GREAT WORK
THE ENVIRONMENT WAS PITCH-BLACK. Aithein felt the soft displacement of water below his feet with each step he took.
“Dani?”
His voice echoed to infinite.
“I’m here,” Dani replied.
“I can’t see you,” Aithein said.
“Nor I you,” she replied.
A subtle sliver of light in the shape of a chalice appeared in the distant horizon. A sacred feminine voice echoed across the realm. “The Universe reflects itself across all scales. I love you now as much as I did then, and I loved you then as much as I shall forever.”
The womb of light bloomed into a slow-rising sun that peered between two mountain peaks. The sunrise bled across the realm and revealed a great, black-glassed lake. Aithein stood on it like a sailboat stranded on a windless sea. The water stretched from horiz
