Beyond The Firmament
Tales From The Cosmos
41. Father Never Forgets
- Written by Gift C Enyadike Jr
Near the end of the 1000-year war that the Titaness, Fari Hasira and her guardian, Diohlatas, had with Sevaasi's hideous imitation, Yenaati, my Titaness' characteristic fury had waned.
And when she wasn't angry, she was afraid. Very, very afraid.
No matter what she did, how bright and hot her radiance, how hard she struck, the beast would not relent. In fact, it was empowered further, having been born from feeding on her essence; its roars growing louder and louder, straining against the wall of silence that the Umtlik had erected. The arbiter, whose power lay in empowering the righteous, only served to worsen the situation.
And to seek an escape would be to lead the Chiliad into the vicinity of the living worlds, including Teyra. They could not escape, and they were losing
But then a new problem emerged. The time had come for the Puraserpa to awaken as a nearby star was resisting the cycle of death. The Devourer did as it would always do so long as Fari Hasira existed; it sought her out. Her instinct was to escape, but she could not do so with the Paadlan abomination on top of them.
The voice of Da Vaada did not come down on the beast as it had done before. As if he was not looking. As if he were ready to let it happen.
It was as Yenaati reigned down its unadulterated wrath on her and her guardian, and when Makar Joga opened its great maw to swallow ALL OF THEM, that she finally cried out, as the child that she was, as the children we all are.
"FAAAATTTHHHHEEEEEEER!!!!"
The archangel, Laam, the hand of Da Vaada who brought about the fall of Sevaasi, came down hard and loud upon the serpent, stunning it and shutting its mouth, but otherwise doing it no real harm.
He turned to Fari Hasira and Diohlatas, both wounded, fearful and locked in their struggle with the Chiliad.
"Be not afraid! The Father never forgets!"
At this moment alone, the Puraserpa would forget her and begin to pursue the arch-angel, who led it away from the Chiliad front and left the Titaness and the Arbiter alone with the Chiliad itself.
No, it would be left alone with her.
She said to her guardian, "Avenger, leave me!"
"I will not!"
"You must! This battle will be won."
"Not alone!"
"I am not..."
And so, reluctantly, Diohlatas would also depart from the Chiliad front.
Yenaati gave no care, for its sole purpose was vengeance against the Titaness for its existence. Its rage would not relent, and hers was gone, as was her fear. And in their place was the strength of the almighty.
She was simply Fari, and she had but one word for the suffering abomination, a prayer she had learned from Dioretaar, "Vaadaromo." (Father's Mercy) before finishing it with a single decisive blow.
Yenaati would be cast into Kurisstac, from which its Paadlan screams can still be heard to this day. Or so it would be, if not for the Umtlik.
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