Crystal Shade Episodes 01

skin as it ruffled her hair and wings. She closed her eyes and took her first deep breath of the delectable air, filling her lungs with life. The cold air streamed in and out in a plume of mist to cool her body as life spread through her with each slow breath.
    She was reborn. Everything was new to her, but also familiar. She had lived before, but this life was so different. Her soul had left this world as a young girl, crushed and broken with a sorrow-filled heart, and now, she was a higher being with knowledge, skill and wisdom, a soul full of hope, love and a strong sense of duty. All of her memories suddenly became a blur. The young guardian wanted to remember how she had come to be here; desperate to remember the place was a short time ago that comforted her with peace, love and protection. She wanted to, but she couldn’t remember anything from before she took on solid form. Wherever she was now, her soul missed that other place.
    Did I dream it? No, she knew she would get back there one day, but not today. She remembered only a soft, beautiful crystal music that called to her, but that memory slowly faded away too.
    The young guardian angel opened her hazel brown eyes and majestically tilted her head to look straight ahead. The blurry spots before her eyes gradually became sharper as her eyes slowly adapted. A middle-aged Aserian woman crouched in front of her. Memories and experience leached into the young guardian’s mind, memories she never experienced, never lived. Angeni knew the woman. Her name was Eve, the first, the High-Guardian of her people, the elder of the Aserian race; a beautiful, graceful and majestic woman wrapped in orange. She had large white wings, larger even than the young guardian’s. Angeni knew Eve to be her mother, but not literally. She recognized her, she trusted her. But she didn’t know why.
    The High-Guardian smiled tenderly as she touched Angeni’s cold face with a delicate hand.
    “Welcome, my child,” Eve’s echoing angelic voice greeted while her eyes flashed citrine orange. The High-Guardian’s voice filled the soul of the young guardian with love, gifting her a feeling of safety. She slowly leaned her head to rest on the High-Guardian’s soft palm, closed her eyes and smiled peacefully while her large white wings lovingly embraced her new mother, Eve. Her angelic mother was with her. She was home.
    “Welcome home, Angeni,” the High-Guardian’s whispered echo slowly faded. Her voice returned to normal as she tenderly stroked her daughter’s hair. Peace and love filled Angeni. “Welcome home.”

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    “Like the phoenix from the ashes her innocent soul was reborn that day,” the old man told the children. “Angeni arrived home from a long and magnificent journey with knowledge, cunning, skill, wisdom and experience, though it was lost to her memories. She left our realm as a shattered soul of a child and when she returned she had become a young, mature woman; a Guardian sent to our world for one reason, to protect and guide mankind. Angeni was sent as a messenger to the Aserians, the messenger of mother, the Sacred Crystal.” The old man met first the girl, and then the boy’s eyes with a touch of pride.
    “She was the Aserian whose rebirth had been foretold, the one born before the night twilight of the Crystal Shade. But she wasn’t the only one.”

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    CRYSTAL SHADE: EPISODES #2

CRYSTAL SHADE: ANGENI & CRYSTAL SHADE: EPISODES
    (Auralight Fantasy)

    “Thousands of stars could tell thousands of stories.”
    Seven year old Grace always dreamt of becoming a guardian angel; like those who guarded and guided her people and prepared to bravely fight in a dreaded mythical event, the Crystal Shade – which never came. It's not like Grace ever wanted to see Demons. Or wants to know what evil and darkness is – things that no one ever faced on her world and as the legends says, the Crystal Shade carries within –, nor does she want to die to be reborn as a guardian. But she thinks the mysterious life of angels is so noble, a fable that it sounds exciting – until it actually happens.

    Crystal Shade: Angeni explores the life of a young daydreaming soul who is destined to reveal the forgotten past of her home world and to seek the answer to the eternal question; what the legendary Crystal Shade really is.

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