Ariel blinked her eyes several tis so that she could see who was talking to her. She couldn't recognize who it was based on the voice of that man alone.
She opened her eyes to see an old man standing a little far away from her. But she knew that he wasn't an ordinary man right away. Ordinary n weren't capable of producing light from their bodies.
"Are you feeling okay, my child?" that man with grey hair and bear asked her in a worried voice.
Ariel felt around the place where she had a hole. Her stomach was already healed.
"I'm… okay!" Ariel replied in surprise.
She then instantly got up on her feet to see if Joyce was the one who had healed her. But she was still with Kenneth. She then checked for Damien. He was still lying down on the ground, a little further away from where she was at the mont.
"Everyone will be fine," that old man said to Ariel in a consoling voice when he saw how worried she was for everyone.
Ariel suddenly realized that no one around her was moving. She looked around again just to confirm that. And her eyes hadn't deceived her the first ti. Even the flas of the torches weren't flickering at all.
Ariel now knew who the old man was.
"Grandpa?"
A subtle smile appeared on God's face. He took a step closer to Ariel and said, "I was worried that you wouldn't recognize ."
Ariel gave an awkward smile and pointed her palm around their surroundings. "I would be a fool not to recognize you after all this."
"Right." He laughed at how casually Ariel was talking to him. But he liked it considering how he had seen several futures where his granddaughter didn't talk to him at all.
God's laughter sounded really llow. He looked like a really warm being who would never hurt a soul.
Ariel looked at her grandfather and thought how that kind-looking being could do things that made him hated by so many of her loved ones.
But at the mont, she was grateful towards him. She gave a gentle bow to her grandfather and humbly said, "I believe that you were the one to heal , grandpa. I am really grateful towards you for healing ."
"Believe it or not," He took so more steps towards Ariel. "You are my beloved granddaughter. How could I let you fall into slumber when you are very dear to ?"
He stopped when he was standing right in front of her. And he held out his palm to reveal the necklace with a wing-shaped pendant. "I believe this is yours."
"Yes!" Ariel happily took the necklace from his hand and instantly took it closer to her lips.
But God stopped her before she could kiss it. "I don't think your father would be happy to see here. Especially when everything is in disarray. He will imdiately bla this all on without giving a chance to speak."
Ariel pursed her lips when she heard her grandfather. "You two don't see eye to eye, do you? Will it always be like this in the future as well?" she innocently asked.
God heaved a sigh and replied to that innocent girl, "I definitely hope that things won't always be as it is now. But I can't really bla your father for our estranged relationship. I hurt him. And a lot of my loved ones. It's hard to maintain a relationship when you have unlimited ti on your hand. You are bound to quarrel one day or another."
"You are also bound to make ands one day or another. Isn't it so?" Ariel said with a hopeful smile.
And God gently caressed her hair and replied, "I sure hope so, child. I am currently trying to make ands with your grandma. She was really furious with ."
"Ah, right! Where is she?" She looked at her grandfather hoping he had so answers. "If it was any other day, she would have co to save before things could have escalated to this point."
God gave a sad look to Ariel. He was feeling imnsely guilty for what the Goddess had done. "Asherah abandoned her physical form and scattered herself around the universe so that I wouldn't be able to bring her ho even if I wanted to."
Ariel kept on staring at God because even though he was speaking in the language she understood, she felt as though he was speaking in so ancient language that she didn't understand.
And seeing how dumbfounded Ariel was, God tried to explain in simpler terms. "Your grandmother and I are pure and raw energies of this universe. We stay in this physical form because it is easier this way. But your grandma got angry at and she reverted back to her raw form. Now she beca one with the universe."
"Wh-What? She beca one with the universe?" Ariel was shocked to her core. "Does that an… I will never see her again?"
"No, that's not how it works." God consolingly patted Ariel's shoulder and said, "You will definitely see her soon. I guess she will return when I will make things right up there in the Heaven realm."
"What's happening over there?" Ariel furrowed her brows and complained, "Uncle Michael tried to kill and the others. Why was he behaving like that? Did I do sothing wrong to him? Am I not aware of sothing that angered him so badly?"
God was silent for a few seconds. And he answered her, "You did nothing wrong, my child. It's his soul that has started to corrupt. Maybe it's ti that I punish him. I have been lenient for too long."
Ariel didn't try to stop her grandfather when he said that. She wanted Michael to get punished for almost killing the one who was very dear to her.
But she did plead for Tobias. "Grandpa, I think you already know this but… Tobias was forced to take part in whatever he did today. Uncle Michael was forcing him to attack saying sothing about his mother. My cousin only pretended to attack . Else he would have never done sothing like that to . I am sure of it."
"I am aware, Ariel. I didn't intervene right away because I trusted him to make the right judgnt. He did what he could." God calmly replied to Ariel. It looked like he truly wasn't angry with Tobias.
Before things got awkward again, God looked into those familiar pair of amber eyes. He lovingly patted Ariel on her head and said, "I wished to et you in a quaint environnt. But because of Michael, I had to see you now. I'm sorry that our first eting was under such bad circumstances."
"It's okay, grandpa. I am glad that you ca all the way here to save . That's all that matters," Ariel replied with a smile of gratitude.
God admired how Ariel had grown up to be the exact copy of his imagination. She indeed was the epito of perfection that he had hoped for.
He smiled and said to her, "We will et again, Ariel."
God then snapped his fingers before disappearing in the blink of an eye.
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