The Old Ones

By Manuela Melton

She didn't struggle. She understood, once again, that her fate was of her own making. Screeching sounds came from the swarm as it absorbed Sharon into its blackness. She reached for me as it sucked her in, but we both knew there was nothing I could do. She was a rightful child of Chaos, born into flesh and blood, and there, held hostage. Still, I grabbed her hand and struggled to keep the many shedhim from dragging her away. She was a Child of the Father. The Master made her many ages ago from the Father's own spirit and called her and her innumerable siblings into the natural realm to restore Planet Rahu, one of the many planets destroyed in a cosmic calamity. My name is Haziel. My brothers and I make up an elite guardian team called the Chayot. Sharon and the other Children lived long and blissful lives in our company, until, in the process of building a safe and pure world for themselves and the Adam, something happened to change the moral compass of the Children's civilization, allowing Chaos to enter. The same destruction that happened to the world before them happened all over again because of something they refused to do. What they didn't do was so horrendous that now, their punishment is to relive the pain and sadness they caused: they were placed into a cycle where they must incarnate repeatedly into bodies of the fallen Adam to live with the consequences of their inaction, and Sharon's lives always end with her return to Hell. However, they were children of a just Father, who has given many opportunities for them to set things right and return home. Now, they are old as time itself, and time has run out. Only one lifetime remains for Sharon and the Old Ones to break free and make restitution. There is one simple thing keeping them from breaking free from the cycle, though. Will Sharon remember what it is and transcend the cycle? Or will she forget and remain a child of Hell, spending eternity with her father, Chaos?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162510913X
• ISBN13: 9781625109132
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Tate Publishing
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"