You Have No Idea

It was almost over. He continued to watch Isabella from afar. She was by far the most rebellious, young woman he had ever seen or kept watch over for the last 500 years. He only had to keep her safe until the night of All Hallows Eve. After that she was no longer his concern. He would be free at last.

The Long Walk

She knew the road would lead her to here. It always did. Night after night she had the same dream for the last 18 years. But until tonight she never knew what it meant. Yet, she knew once she climbed those white marble steps that she could never return to her life as she had once known it.

No, being among the living wasn't her destiny. It just wasn't in the cards for her. Her life was meant to be lived out in the heavens. She was being called home. Home to serve humanity in ways that no human could possibly understand but that she would come to grasp the meaning of.

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