First Step

After judging the souls, she returned to the place beyond the gate.

"Father, what are humans exactly like?" Eternity asks

"Hmm, humans for me are children. Just like you, though with imperfections." her father answers.

"Why aren't they perfect?"

"Because I didn't make them that way. If I had, what is the point of letting them live and then killing them?"

"I don't understand."

"Perfection is not for destroying. And even if I made them perfect, after their life would begin they would pick up imperfections from around them."

"I see."

"Why the sudden interest in humans, huh? You have been doing this for 16 years. Why suddenly?"

"16 years for us, for the humans it has been over 400,000 years. I want to know what they are like. What the ones I judge are like."

" If that is so, I'll let you go to earth for 1 hour. You can spend 3 years there and then you must return. You can observe them, live with them, do whatever you want."

"I want to go, open the gate to earth."

Her father gestures towards a small gate and it opens. Eternity walks through it and enters a forest on Earth.

With her hand in front of her eyes, she looks at the sky. Dazed by the light of the sun, she mummered to herself "Beautiful". She looked around herself seeing the trees for the first time. For the first time hearing the sound of a far away river, noticing the tiny insects around her, seeing the birds fly above her, she is stunned. Stunned, by the imperfect yet beautiful creatures around her. "I've never seen this much life before." She thinks, and starts walking towards the faint sound of the distant river. The moment she reaches the river, she is amazed. She marvels at the sight of the water flowing in the river, small fishes swimming in the stream, and for the first time she sees a deer drinking from the river. Seeing this extent of beauty, she thinks "Though I have infinite knowledge, this is above everything."

She stays around the river for a long time, and then she notices the sun setting so she tried to make her way out of the forest on foot so that no humans would notice her inhuman abilities. By sunrise the next day she reached the edge of the forest. It was a small village where she reached, few houses or shops were around. Sitting at the counter of a small shop was an old woman. Eternity went to her and asked "Can you please tell me what place this is?" The woman answered "It is the outskirts of Raven Forest child."

"Could you tell me where the nearest city is?" Eternity asks.

"Not very far, 50 miles away at most is our country's most lavish city, the Sky City. If you are going there, take a train. The train station is about half a kilometre from here." says the old woman.

" Well thank you for the information, I'll be on my way." Saying this she starts walking towards the train station waving goodbye to the old woman.

***Download NovelToon to enjoy a better reading experience!***