He looked at the young ones with envy, he wished he could do what they did, run like them, laugh like them, kiss other young ones in stolen moments like them.
But, of course, he couldn’t, he was not like them, they were flesh and blood, while he only was a force, a disembodied mind, governed by a very keen and strong will, he was one of the others.
He smiled, he might envy those young men and women their moments, but he lived all the times at once, he saw the future and the past, as they saw the colors of the flowers surrounding them.
If he could sigh, he would have sighed a very hot and long sight now.
He seldom entertained the notion of visiting the world of humans, let alone interacting with one of them, but he had to do this today, or the future changes yet again.
His kind knew one constant, and that was life, they willed themselves to live, and they appreciated and valued life above anything else, and if he didn’t take a move today, life might be extinguished from this spot of the universe.
Others of his kind would occasionally toy with minds of men, driving them insane in the process, but they gave precious gifts in return.
They were the voices of angels in the heads of prophets, the harbinger of dark omens to practitioners of the dark arts, the muse behind every great work of art, spoken , written, or visual, these were their precious gifts to all life forms in the universe.
Some called them angels, some called them demons, many thought that they were a figment of their imagination, some even tried to banish them.
But only the ones who they deemed useful enough to bond with had any power of his kind, the ones who were offered the ‘Deal’.
Today, he singled a boy, the called by the others Darren, and he will bond to him, giving part of himself to the boy and taking a part of the boy into him in the process.
Darren had to make the ‘Deal’, or all life would be lost, he had to do it today before it is too late.
He decided on a name for the boy to be able to call onto him, he decided that he should be Mr. Black.
Characters from Agartha.