Tale I: Chapter 1 – What Halo
“So what’s that halo that you wear?” Sarah spoke inquiringly
to her customer,
“Wha…” then he looked up at the red glowing ring that was
just above his head then with reluctance he said, “It’s a halo of Sin,”
as he spoke those 5 words the noise in the pub dissipated,
but then as the noise slowly picked back up to the usual level of background
noise she responded with astonishment,
“A halo of Sin?”
“Yeah, that’s what I said isn’t it?” he stated with a hint
of annoyance.
“How…, why did you get that?” she responded
“I got it as a gift from the angels so they can track me,”
he said it with a new found pride,
"Why’d they want to track, you” she spoke uneasily, and
with some disbelief.
“It’s a little known fact that...” he paused and changed the
direction of the conversation, “What’s your name anyway before I continue?”
“Sarah,” she blurted out, “but what is yours, Mr Hell’s
angel?”
Suddenly he burst out in a fit of laughter, Sarah was
bemused.
Now as soon as the newly dubbed Mr Hell’s angel recovered
from his fit, he stated “So would I be correct in the assumption from that
response, that you believe in a god, and you believe what those angelic
preachers say about a god,” he stated.
Sarah was feeling uneasy at his choice of words, “Yeeesss…
kind of, what do you mean ‘a god’ there’s only one god”
“But is there, really any gods or is it just some
fabrication by these Halo wearing invaders?” Spoke the man.
Sarah was puzzled by the man’s questioning,
“What, so your saying there’s no divine Godrick up there?”
Sarah said with a new level of astonishment,
“Yes, there is nothing above of us, except the sky, all of
the sky bound creatures and all of the stars, there satellites and the rest of
the interstellar flotsam and jetsam and radiation from the almost countless
stars” The man clarified,
“What about clouds?” Sarah picked in again,
“Ok, I’ll let you have that,” the Man said reluctantly, “now
shall I tell you about these gods?”
“Ok, ok,” Sarah spoke, “I’ll listen,”
“As it seems to be there isn’t a god and it’s all of those
Halo wearing invaders subterfuge to force all of the people all across
the many worlds that I have visited,” the man said gazing into Sarah’s green
eyes then as soon as he caught eye contact with her he continued, “and within
each of the worlds I have visited ever since my birthplace, back on the planet
of Beta Gamma, but the whole of the, once proud, population has been reduced to
nought but a race of slaves,”
“Well, obviously not the whole population.” Sarah pips in to
receive one raised eyebrow look from the man, “what about yourself? And another
question then if you come from another planet how come you and I both
understand each other and why do we look so similar?” Sarah said the last part
with an heir of bemusement,
"I’ll get to that in a moment, if you allow this tale
to run its course,” he was getting slightly agitated now, “well the world on
its surface it looked very similar to this world, and then the angels arrived
out of the black infinity of the spaces above of the world’s surface and some
thing fell from the sky's above on that fateful night, all of those years
ago, we thought it was another meteorite or something as harmless as one of
those rocks that fall from the blackness, sure they hurt the landscape but
Human casualties are a rare occurrence, but what we weren’t expecting to come
from this one, accursed rock was six bright white human like creatures with
bright gold rings on their heads claiming to be the divine profits of a god
that we had never heard of, and then they expected us to worship them, or
rather the eagle headed god that they worshiped. So the Royal family with the
general agreement of the people simply asked them to leave and to take they’re
god with them on there way out, and then stuff turned uglier…”
“hey Sarah” spoke Dave the barman as he slapped her backside
“It’s nice that you have found one of our clients to flirt with but could you
please get over there and sort them out” as he said the last part he pointed at
the rowdy table in the corner, she mouthed the words that's harassment at Dave she
quickly proceeded with his instructions, after whispering the following words
to the hell's angel "Don't go away my hell's angel i should be back in a
couple of minutes".
Sarah was a blond girl who was wearing the standard bar maid
uniform, of a tightly fitted light blue cropped polo shirt holding the logo of
an Angel with its two arms outstretched. Inside of it was in a darker blue text
saying The Embrace of an Angel" emblazoned upon it.
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