1. The Last Flight Chapter 19


    Date: 11/14/2017, Categories: Lesbian, Author: Annamagique, Rating: 3, Source: LushStories

    carried out my cabin checks. At each grave a different face, all as vivid as if they were really there. “I'm sorry, so truly sorry,” I whispered to every single one. I realised that the crow was following me, stopping where I stopped, watching me intently, his shiny black head tilted, first one way and then the other. His deep black eyes blinking. I stared at him as he stared at me. “I couldn't save them,” I told him, “I should be here with them. I tried but I failed.” The crow blinked once, then again and tilted his head. With a last cry, he spread his wings, jumped into the air and flew away. I watched as he disappeared into the blackness. “Just like everyone else,” I shouted after him, “Leave me on my own!” “You are not on your own, Karen. I am with you everywhere you go.” The soft voice startled me, I hadn't heard any sound of footsteps or anything thing else that alerted me to the fact someone had approached. “Mum?” I spun around to face the direction from whence the voice had come, “Mummy!” I exclaimed, running the few short steps to where she was standing and throwing my arms around her, holding her so tightly, never wanting to let her go, ever. “I will be with you, watching over you until the day that you finally join me.” “But I should be with you now, with all of these...” “Ssshhh...” She put a finger to my lips. “You did all you could, more even. You couldn't save them, it was not your choice. That decision had already been made, you could not change that. Those ...
    whom survived, the ones you led to safety, their time had not yet come, the decision on their future, and yours, has not yet been made but you prevented their early demise.” I looked carefully at her. “You mean that had I done nothing, they would still have survived?” “Oh no, make no mistake, Karen. Doing nothing would have allowed the Reaper to collect more souls. He will take whatever he can. You cannot prevent him taking those whose time has expired but that doesn't mean he won't take those whose time has not yet come!” I thought for a moment. “And you?” I said at last, “Could I have saved you?” My mother smiled. “No,” she said, shaking her head sadly, “You could not, no one could.” I heard a Raven cry out in the distance. “I must go. Don't worry, little one, I will always be near.” Once again I put my arms around her waist but they closed about my own, holding nothing. She was gone. I stood, motionless, lost, I had no idea why I was there or where I should go and so, eventually, I stepped out into the darkness, aimlessly. I did not know where I was walking to but I could see a faint orange glow ahead so continued towards it. As I got nearer I saw that it was the glow of a fire but not a visible fire, one that was hidden deep in the earth with the glow flickering from a hole in the ground like a fissure, the like of which I had seen in movies of volcanoes erupting. Beside the fissure I could see a man, silhouetted against the glow, his back to me, looking down into the heat. ...
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