Death Waits in the Dark by Mark Edward Langley

Author:Mark Edward Langley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 2020-07-21T18:01:13+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Darkness surrounded Arthur Nakai as he felt a strange wind begin to blow across the shadowy world he found himself wandering through. He knew immediately it was Niłchʼi Diyin, the Holy Wind of the Dark World that he was taught about as a child. Soon he found himself standing, still and quiet, watching in sheer amazement as the Mist People, who had no certain form of their own, but could assume the shape of bird or beast or reptile, began to move over the Dark World. This is the time before the earth even existed, he told himself. Before the concept of man and woman had even transformed themselves into their present forms, away from simple male and female beings. It must be. He had heard the Creation story told to him by his paternal grandfather many times while growing up. But why was he here? Why should he be allowed to witness such a sacred event? Why would the Creator show him the vision of the beginning of his own people?

He bowed his head, feeling unworthy of this vision that was being bestowed upon him. When he lifted his head, he noticed he was now standing on a small island that floated in the center of four seas. The Mist People could not see him and were busy going about their work. He watched quietly as First Man and First Woman were formed. He saw First Man build a fire using only a crystal, while First Woman did the same using only a piece of turquoise. Arthur’s vision was like that of an eagle. He could see that both First Man and First Woman observed each other’s fires from a distance. He watched as First Man searched three times in the darkness for her turquoise flame but could not locate it. On his fourth journey, however, Arthur observed First Man tear a branch off the only pine tree he could see for miles and hold it up to indicate where the other light blazed. Arthur followed First Man through the darkness to a home where grayish smoke rose into the air. He fell to his knees as First Woman and First Man met for the first time, drawn to each other by their fire, just as he had been drawn to Sharon.

Soon afterward, several other beings arrived to populate the First World, including the Great-Coyote-Who-Was-Formed-in-the-Water, called First Angry, and the Wasp People along with a multitude of other creatures. They were followed by the beings known as spider ants and black ants. Soon came many other creatures to inhabit the land of the First World including Spider Man and Spider Woman and Salt Man and Salt Woman. As Arthur kept quiet and watched intently, he soon noticed that this world was beginning to be too small to maintain such a large number of creatures, and he watched in amazement as they began fighting amongst themselves. They fought so much that the creatures ended up crawling out of the darkness through a passageway that had been revealed to them in the east.

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