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Indoors, Brother sits next to the window, while sister watches TV. Brother looks at sister with a bored countenance and sister stares blankly at the TV. Brother looks out the window and sees a kingdom half in existence with colors unexplainable and rounded structures unlike any architecture he's ever seen.
Brother squints and speaks within himself.
"There are no mountains where we live..."
He looks closer at the mountains and realizes that the mountains themselves are on the clouds and the kingdom is above it. Brother speaks out loud, but not loudly.
"Surely this is the kingdom of God!"
Brother raises his hand towards a long walkway poking out from the kingdom that leads to an end, and a large house is built fitting in perfectly with the rest of the kingdom.
"This is my new house."
With curiosity, Brother raises his hand towards the house and it disappears, then he makes it appear again. Within himself he says.
"I wonder what happens to anyone within the places as they are are removed."
Then lowers his hand and makes it disappear and reappear again and within his heart reasons.
"There is no one there yet, though, for it was just created."
Brother turns to his sister and calls.
"Sister! Come look! Quickly!"
Sister quickly rises and comes to the window and sees the kingdom. Brother watches for her reaction, partially thinking he may simply have lost his mind. Sister is astonished, and Brother knows she has seen the kingdom. Sister, too, adds to the kingdom, and Brother is astonished. Sister speaks.
"We must go there now!"
Brother and sister leave out of the window, to not lose sight of the kingdom, yet are far from the mountain. They close their eyes and wish with their hearts to be closer. They feel their spirit pull them forward, and they open their eyes.
Sister and Brother are at the base of the impossibly steep mountain on a very narrow ledge. If they fall, they would surely die, but they feel little fear if any at all, for to be at the kingdom is forever more worth the danger.
Sister has already begun climbing. Brother climbs the perfectly vertical slope with many cracks, but with barely room for fingers to fit in, let alone feet. Brother thinks to look down, but he knows that he will see nothing but clouds, for they are too high, and he does not want to inject fear into his journey, because he will not turn back.
Sister climbs up backwards, facing away the mountain as Brother follows her up helping her along the way. Brother asks her.
"Why do you climb that way? It is more dangerous and you are more likely to fall."
Sister replies.
"I do not know. Help me get higher."
And Brother says to her.
"Use my shoulder."
Sister steps on Brother’s shoulder and lifts herself higher. They are near the top, but Sister still climbs facing away; her eyes fixed on something magnificent. Brother calls to his sister.
"Sister! Sister! Hurry up!"
Sister does not respond, but stares away, though secure in her place. Brother climbs up around her to the top, where she almost was. Sister’s hand comes over the edge and Brother pulls her up.
There are already others at the top. A worldly girl, a worldly boy, and a baby, barely three. They sit looking from their seats from the top of the mountain. The worldly boy has music playing and talks with the worldly girl. Brother walks around them and crawls into a nook where to be not found or bothered by him so he can plan his next step to reach the house he made.
The worldly boy comes and finds him in the nook, and begins to talk about his hair gel. Brother stands and faces him.
"Check out this hair gel. I’m wearing it now. It’s the top of the line! Fresh off the market! This is going to make me so much money! Then I’ll make a new product and sell that for a lot, too! Do you want to buy some?"
Brother answers him.
"Why would I want to buy hair gel? Look around you! Do you see where you are? Do you see what has happened?"
The worldly boy stares blankly as if he hadn’t heard a word spoken.
Brother raises his hand and a bottle of gel appears in it, then he continues to speak.
"This gel is better than your gel. Why do you care about money when it no longer has a place?"
Brother saw that the worldly boy still hadn’t really heard his words, but stared with hate at the bottle of better gel, so Brother made it disappear and continued.
"There will always be gels better than this, for nothing is impossible with this power, and it costs nothing but acceptance."
The worldly boy still did not hear, but went his way to the worldly girl who sat staring from the top of the mountain. Brother turns and sees Sister is sitting with the baby eating, and he turns towards the kingdom.
Brother wishes to be closer, and suddenly finds himself in a rushing mall. People everywhere are wandering. He sees no stores, but they wander anyway. Brother decides to use his newfound power for fun. He tests his ability to become invisible, then his ability to fly, which is harder than he expected, as he could barely lift off the ground.
Brother, invisibly and barely hovering, makes his way through the crowd causing little mischief wherever he goes. Removing things from purses to the ground. Pushing people. Throwing hats to the ground. Anything that he could do without being noticed for it.
Brother laughs to himself, but then sees a group of men that do not appear as the other wanderers, for they walk with purpose, and with them a hovering boy chained and leading them. Brother flees, but they continue to follow him. None can see him, but the boy who is with them and flies easily can sense his presence and continues to hover closer to Brother.
Brother is cornered above a fountain. He sees nooks that cannot be seen from the ground and even presents that have been hidden and thinks to hide in one of the nooks, but he must cross the boy to make it, and he knows he cannot fly as the boy can and he remain airborne long enough to reach the nook. Then the boy speaks.
"This used to be my Father’s house. We used to hide here in many places."
They boy spoke this, but no one listened. More so, Brother wondered how the boy could know these things, as he did not fully comprehend the words of the boy, though they were clear. The boy turned toward Brother and began moving slowly towards him. Followed by the men closing in on the corner.
Out of fear, Brother closes his eyes and wishes with his heart to be somewhere else. Anywhere else. Suddenly he is in a dim underground throne room. The only light came from the wall behind the throne, but it could not be seen from where it came.
Within the room are a group of primitively dressed men. The leader stands in front of a chest near the throne beating at the lock on it. The throne was behind a lifted wall that was once a door in front of it to hide the throne and chest, and in front of the wall was a pond of water. The other men bowed and worshiped their leader.
Brother opens his eyes and sees he is on the ground in the corner behind the throne and near the chest. Silently he watches. Brother wonders if he has traveled back in time, for the manner of clothes the men wore were primitive; the leader wore a red headdress with the head of a boar with large tusks with a matching shredded skirt as did the rest wear shredded red skirts and no shirts or shoes.
The leader finally breaks the lock and opens the chest, but then growls in anger. Brother looks in the chest and sees that whatever was inside, seeing three latches with empty impressions for three jewels, had already been taken long ago. Brother moves back into the corner.
The leader walks to the other corner behind the throne, at the other end of the room, and faces it. He then turns to his followers and commands them.
"Find the heir, and kill him!"
One of his followers inquires.
"How will we kill him? For he is not the same as we?
The leader turns back to the wall and presses on it. A slot opens and he reaches in pulling out a bow and a long off- white feather. Then he answers.
"Use the feather."
The followers stand and leave. The leader stands motionless. Brother stares silently at the leader from the other corner wondering if they mean to kill him, or some other. Suddenly, the leader turns his head towards Brother, as if looking directly in his eyes.
Brother stands motionless staring at the leader wondering if he can see him, then takes a few silent steps forward. The leader's head and eyes follow him. He is seen. Brother jumps head first into the pond, but cannot pass through the ground or the water. Brother thinks to himself.
"Certainly, this water is enchanted with a barrier, else what is this place!?"
Brother looks back at the leader who rears his arm back and throws the feather like a knife with perfect precision. Brother closes his eyes and wishes with all his heart to be saved.
Sister is in the mall searching for Brother. Since the moment he was led astray to mischief she sought to kill him because she knew he was capable of damaging the kingdom and jeopardizing the safety of the inhabitants.
There sister saw him; walking down the stairs in the crowd unnoticed. Hooded in a white robe and carrying a hooded person in a black robe. Sister had a feather with her. She had not received if from the men in the throne room, but she had it because she had the knowledge of the kingdom and of how to kill a spirit, which she and all who sought the kingdom became the moment they sought it.
She threw it like a knife and sliced him from shoulder to mid body, and the feather disappeared.The hooded white robed figure let down the black hooded figure, which stood on his own and did not run away. The white robed spirit then sat against the stairs. Sister was confused. Brother removed his black hood and Sister responded.
"You switched."
The boy then removed his white hood and answered calmly.
"Yes. I wanted to be rid of my never-ending search for destruction. My use by those who desecrate my Father’s house, so we switched robes that thy Brother may live, having turned from his ways, and would not have to die."
The boy turns to Brother and continues talking.
"But as it is now I who go away, I have this to ask of you."
Sister and Brother listen solemnly.
"Burn this temple. Destroy this place which has become a den of thieves, and I, when I return, will rebuild it again.
Sister stares as the boy fades to light and Brother answers him.
"I will."
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Title:
Rachel's Play
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Artist:
The Epic Of Raiden
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Description:
A brother and sister explore a new world hiding a distant past.
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Date:
08/27/2012
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Tags:
rachels
play
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