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Everything Is Light - Emmett O'Brian
Introduction
This book began as a short story about an unnamed character and a call to action. Classic stories with a twist are often the most fun.
Writing this story came intuitively, but the struggle was to not assume too much. The people are in the equivalent of the bronze age. Writing from that perspective proved a challenge.
From the beginning it was obvious that this world was not earth and the people were not human. This world did not follow the rules ours does.
Being intensely interested in physics, a notion of how the world in the story worked slowly took shape. Although fantastic, the world has rules but their world does not fit in our universe.
It’s somewhat silly to think that a human like creature would live in a universe that functions entirely differently from ours. At one point there was a question as to if the characters looked human. Some human traits had already been described but there was a lot of wiggle room within that.
The idea behind the text was to write like it had been translated from an unknown language, recorded long ago. So whether or not the characters are as human as this english text describes is up to the reader to decide. Any similarities may only be an artifact of an imperfect translation.
How the text got to you and I from a different universe is another mystery.
Emmett O’Brian
Everything Is Light
All the characters in this book are fictitious, and resemblance to actual persons living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Copyright 2016 by Emmett O’Brian
Everything Is Light
My leg shook. I had let the shadow of the tree rest on my leg too long. I felt the cold creeping up my calf. It felt like poison.
We are creatures of the light. Where the light always shines, we emerge. Where the shadow continually falls they emerge.
He probed the edge of the forest. His smokey black form danced slowly between the trees. Just my presence here enraged him. Him a creature of shadow, amidst the shadow. He wanted to reach out and destroy me but the light of the clearing made him draw back. All the time I stood in the light, I grew stronger and as the light brushed against him and he pushed into the clearing he was growing weaker. Soon though, that would change. The sun would soon dim and set over the horizon. He would grow stronger and I would wane.
If I timed it exactly right, just before the setting sun, I could defeat him. Then I would have to make it quickly through the forest to the village below.
Normally the creatures of the dark are hungry, solitary creatures, gobbling up each other to become stronger. But this cauldhin beast was somehow different. This one bellowed out a low deep call that penetrated the trees. In the darkness a second smoke beast, a cauldhin, danced to the edge of the clearing.
They stood together, not attacking each other, not gobbling up the other. They stood on the edge of the clearing and patiently waited for the sun to go down.
One cauldhin at its weakest would be manageable. Two would extinguish my light. The only thing left to do was to start a fire. The trees are partly of the light and partly of shadow. They turn light into darkness, digging their roots into the ground where it is always dark.
I drew my sword of forge hardened light and cut through some branches. Breathing light into them they flamed up. I relished the light as the sun began to set but a small fire is not enough to hold back two smoke beasts. They edged closer and closer, jibbering and drooling black shadow. They were two and now the fire and I were two for fighting them.
My sword cut into the smoke black as they danced, swirling around me and my ally the flame. In the distance there was the howl of creatures of the dark. More were coming. How could more be coming? Dark ones don’t even tolerate the trees. They gnaw at their trunks and bite their branches off. How could more be coming?
The cauldhin wrapped around my sword arm and bit into it. The darkness flowed into my veins like icy rivers. I breathed light onto him, giving up some of my very own life light to get him to release me.
My sword arm, weakened by the darkness could scarcely lift itself. I switched hands.
Then one of the cauldhin leapt onto my faltering fire, it must have hurt immensely telling by the shrieking howl it made, but the fire was out. My ally gone and my arm useless.
The smoke beast’s jibbering went from excited to frenzied but then to fearful. Some great rainbow of light was coming up through the forest. Its strength was not unlike the sun for even at a distance I could feel energy returning to my limbs.
A form like a man entered the clearing. His clothing like sapphire stone, his hair writhed like a fire and his eyes like the fire of a furnace.
I ran to him and he past me. With his bare hands he crushed the smoke beasts.
Thank you my lord! I cried out.
He smiled at me touched my arm and blew into it, restoring me to health.
The creatures of the dark are gathering, come and follow me and we will push them back under the ground.
I thought of my family in the village, would I ever see them again if I followed this man? Even so, something great had been offered to me, I could not refuse it.
I am your disciple my lord. I knelt.
Come then, there is much work to do. I cannot stop until everything is light.
An Education In Light
I am Eright of the middle mountain, he began. I began my journey as a monk, sequestered at the top of the great peak,