"It had been six months since the incident in Mexico with
Mersy and the demon Pain of Glass
and my clumsy attempts at meditation in the cave resulted in nothing. I had hoped that the spirit of the ancient Mexican
child would come to me, show me the world from which she came from. Do the dead dream? Do they dream of
what might have been, or only of what was?
I would let myself expand my mind around me, to pick up the subconscious metaphors of life, to untap the memories
of the world, perhaps. Or I might have been desperate to make sense of the the events around the krys, the demon,
Mersy, and what it meant to be Euthanatoi.
Why should I have been surprised that ghosts walked the world? Party Doctrine declared no spirituality, a habit difficult
to break when faced with the reality of minds, but to see it with my own senses...I only imagined the Great Wheel
as a grand metaphor for the cycles in the world akin to the rise and fall of empires, the crests and depths of change,
and the death and rebirth of ideas. But the events surrounding the demon and Mersy suggested spirituality,
the existence of the soul.
Perhaps this is why, in my moment of great confusion, that the spirit child came to me in a vision. She let me choose Mersy as my
guide and they tested me with questions from the Sea of Faces, to
teach me to work to understand, to act to understand, to not be afraid to make mistakes, as long as I understand
those mistakes. And it was over.
And it was not over.
Black flames rise from a destroyed city, a wolf flings its dead pup off
into the horizon. A cyclone of debris tears throughout the city, and an ivory tower crumbles into a brass spire. I open
a door to see Qwerty and another man standing on pillars. Below them a human kneels with a frightful angelic presence
surrounding him. We all point to the horizon when the Sun rises.
It was the Cycle of Fate that brought all of us together at Necropolis in Kansas, USA. Nicholas Java (a Hermetic),
Angelo Sanchez (a "fallen angel"), Qwerty, and I. To find the people on a list given to Angelos by Senex himself."
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