The Crossing Point by August Arrea

Author:August Arrea
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: MOBI to epub Conversion
Publisher: VII Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Havenhid

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on?

The answer caught Jacob by surprised. For a moment he stood flummoxed staring in the direction Gotham had dropped from sight until he heard Damiel calling for him to follow.

“How many sons has he had?” asked Jacob when he was once more at Damiel’s side, his feet struggling to keep up with the angel’s fast-paced stride.

“Just the one,” answered Damiel curtly.

“But I thought he’d died.”

“You’d be right.”

“Okay, I get that this is Eden and I’m still coming to grips with seeing things outside the norm, but how do you go see someone who is dead?” asked Jacob, before quickly adding, “And please don’t let the answer be what I’m thinking it might.”

“And what would that be? Spirits? Ghosts?” Damiel replied without even the smallest hint of humor in his voice. “When I said Gothamel’s gone to see his son, I meant visit him. The boy lies where the earth is shaded by the Tree of Life.”

“You mean to tell me there’s an actual Tree of Life? The one that grows the forbidden fruit?”

“We are in Eden. Why would the existence of the Tree of Life be of surprise to you?”

Such a simple answer should have made sense to Jacob, but it didn’t. At least, not easily. Not when he still found himself somewhat shell-shocked by the reality of his surroundings. However, with the topic breached and his curiosity newly stoked, Jacob saw a chance to quell other questions he held in the back of his mind about Gotham’s mysterious child.

“So, um, how long ago did he, you know…die?”

“Who, David? Must be just passed fifty years since it happened,” answered Damiel with a sudden glumness. “Gothamel has not shared this with you? Of course not, if now you’re asking me. And if such is the case it is not for my lips to reveal to you the details. Even if I wished—which I do not—there is not enough time left in the waning minutes we have left. Now come!”

Damiel led Jacob to a small grove of trees growing in a tight cluster on both sides of the River’s banks. Like some of the trees he had come across in the long trek through the numerous forests, they were of a kind never before seen by Jacob in the outside world. They stood strong and tall, but again not nearly as tall as some of the Forest giants. And yet their massive trunks formed by limbs of wood twisted and braided together belied an age far greater than anything born inside the thicket of the forests. The branches of the trees lush with leaves came together from both sides of the riverbank to form a wide, bridge-like canopy over the River which bubbled peacefully as it flowed out into Eden’s lands. And deep within the branches Jacob spied numerous lights that glowed softly and warmly, like lights shining from the windows of a cottage draped in the foggy mist hugging an English countryside. The dense foliage and the dimming sunlight, however, made it impossible to see clearly what the lights were, or what created them.

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