Once and Forever

Chapter 7; The reflection

My blue wings fire up and start to move, pressing the air away. Still with my head tillted back I bend my knees and push up into the darkening sky. The beatiful and elegant blue dress that I'm wearing since my death has almost a life for itself. It moves perfectly with my body, stays in perfect harmony with the wind and never exposes me. My dress too caught the endless fire of my wings but surprisingly never burns my skin. It must be a special kind of fire, that does not hurt anyones skin.

I lift up and fly off. The beautiful fields behind the orfanage seem so tiny from this altitude. Flying feels so good I carry on over the forest, when suddenly something shimmering caught my eye. I fly down to investigate and find a small lake in the middle of thick trees.

It is incredible feeling up there in the air, flying around, but I can't understand why Tyler could not just stay and help me figure all of this out! Is this like protocol: The angels have to learn everything themselves? That's absurd. Anyway, what is he doing the whole day long? Playing music on the streets? And he has not time to help me?

My thoughts make me angrier and angrier while I walk up and down along the lake. I also notice how my fire starts to spkie and my flames rise higher into the air. They reach up into the sky, the fire is so big it starts to scare me.

When I turn around I find Tyler sitting there with his guitar proped up against him, playing beautiful music. No wait, he's not here, he's only a reflection on the lake surface.

Turning around I try to find out where he could be, since there's a clear reflection of him right in front of me, where mine should be. And the music is in the mean while all around me, filling me up and compelling me to go closer.

There's no trace of him anywhere but the moving picture on the lake's surface.

The beautiful wings on my back streach out and the fire rises even more and out of control. My dress too, strts to spit out sparks that land all over the place, trying to begin a fire on the grass.

If I don't stop my fire right now, I'll light the wood on fire and it'll grow so big not even the fire brigade could stop it! But I'm helpressly lost. I couldn't even fly an hour ago and now I need to stop my fire from growing and passing it on.

I look back down at Tyler, still sitting there and singing without any care! I look around him at the huge lake in front of me. Water is what I need, and I need a lot of it.

My body is already in action, getting up and getting ready to jump. I stretch my arms out in front of me and jump right into Tylers refelction.