Tag: Reincarnation
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Across Lives Part 33
Nis had never heard of a Waiting Room before. She’d also never heard of a Life Counselor. Nevertheless, Lesch had brought her to this place, signed her in, and then told her to take a seat in the Waiting Room until they called for her. Lesch would return to pick her up after her meeting.…
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Across Lives Part 26
The bog grew less muddy the farther north they went but even with the terrain becoming easier to traverse, Mel’s injuries prevented them from going much faster. Tique, at least, didn’t seem to be having much difficulty in keeping up although she still hadn’t spoken ever since their crash landing. Her vacant eyes stared straight…
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Across Lives 19
(Photo by Ankush Rathi) Night fell on their first day of rafting. Nis and Meric dropped their anchor into the water and felt the tug as it caught and held them in place. Nis had steered them close enough to the bank that they were able to tie a few ropes from the raft to…
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Across Lives Part 15
(Photo by Didarul Islam) The two trackers made camp with practiced speed, unrolling what appeared to sheets of canvas that they tied and staked in place, using tree limbs for the higher anchor points. Neither of them spoke while they worked, clearly having done this enough times that they knew what the other would need…
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Across Lives Part 10
(Photo by Alfo Medeiros) The world had gone insane, Mel decided. In the year she had been gone, people had gone from being mostly rational to crazed fanatics. In all her lives she’d never seen anything like this. Sure, there were times when people had gone to war with one another and that was a…
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Across Lives Part 6
(Photo by Moli Maeder) Life inside the archives improved rapidly for Nis. The instant the archivists saw the ink stained journal and heard Nis’ excuse that she was too cramped inside that little room, a larger room was found and made ready for her. This one had been used in the past to hold meetings,…
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Across Lives Part 4
(Photo by James Wheeler) The archives had no bedrooms. At the end of each day, the archivists and apprentices all retired to a building across from the archives where they lived. For those who were married or had children, they were given larger accommodations with additional rooms. The apprentices were given a pair of small…
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Across Lives Part 3
(Photo by Pixabay) Dural was a large city, by Nis’ estimations. Her family lived out on the edges of the city where there was room enough to farm the land, but several thousands of people lived further in, nearer the city center. Most buildings were still built with wood and plaster but many newer one…
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Across Lives Part 2
(Photo by Movidagrafica Barcelona) Morning dawned and with it came the usual daily chores. Nis searched through the hen roost for eggs, then milked the goat. It was late summer and soon the crops would begin to ripen but for now all she had to do was pull the weeds and carry the watering buckets…
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Across Lives Part 1
(Photo by Quang Nguyen Vinh) Sunset was mere moments away as the sun nestled in between the two opposing sides of the valley. The slanting rays of sunlight that cut through the distant clouds, refracted by the hot and humid atmosphere, painted the landscape in shades of orange and deep purple. From their vantage point,…
Bridge of Broken Glass 