Quietus
Hunting Again
Still such a child in so many ways. Perhaps she had hoped in vain that the man may have learned greater independence from herself over the years. Given her elusive nature during the last century he'd lived before the plague, while he enjoyed his life as a husband and father again, it was a distant hope he could have come to terms with a life that did not require servitude to a Master.
It was not a life she had wanted for him.
Yet here he was, unchanged and hurting. She knew why, of course, but it hardly mattered in the grand scheme of things. Jake Daniels was a man of his years, but still several millennia her junior. What understanding could come with such time could not be learned in but a year. Could not be gleaned from the cosmos while frozen. He was the man she had forced into cryo nearly five hundred years ago and she?
She was a woman that had lived more lifetimes since then than she cared to count.
There was nothing but patience now. No mirth, no disgust, no anger, no offense to be taken. Unfortunately, despite her patience, the one thing she did not have was time. It was ticking and it was unequivocally merciless.
Slowly the robed woman stood from where she sat by the dwindling flames, "If you wish to see any of your family again, Jake," the woman replied to his scathing hello while she turned to face him with eyes as grey and lifeless as stone, "then you will leave with me now."
It was not a life she had wanted for him.
Yet here he was, unchanged and hurting. She knew why, of course, but it hardly mattered in the grand scheme of things. Jake Daniels was a man of his years, but still several millennia her junior. What understanding could come with such time could not be learned in but a year. Could not be gleaned from the cosmos while frozen. He was the man she had forced into cryo nearly five hundred years ago and she?
She was a woman that had lived more lifetimes since then than she cared to count.
There was nothing but patience now. No mirth, no disgust, no anger, no offense to be taken. Unfortunately, despite her patience, the one thing she did not have was time. It was ticking and it was unequivocally merciless.
Slowly the robed woman stood from where she sat by the dwindling flames, "If you wish to see any of your family again, Jake," the woman replied to his scathing hello while she turned to face him with eyes as grey and lifeless as stone, "then you will leave with me now."