Ch. 1: Snow-White Angel
Kingdom of Ange in the Sky Country, Month of White…-
Snowflakes flitted down from the sky.
The snow is pretty…
A week had gone by since I’d been invited to attend the celebration surrounding the restoration of diplomatic relations between the Sky Country and the Earth Country, and I now arrived in the Kingdom of Ange.
It’s like a dream.
The snow fell softly, piling up in heaps, and it glittered all around me.
I reflexively squinted.
Sefir: “What do you think of our kingdom?”
OO: “It’s so beautiful.”
Sefir’s voice was absorbed by the still-falling snow as he showed me around.
Sefir: “I can show you an even more beautiful sight within this country.”
OO: “Something even more beautiful…?”
I turned to look back and…
Sefir: “Please excuse me, Lady OO.”
OO: “Eh-.”
Sefir gently lifted me up.
His snow-white wings flapped quietly, and then Sefir took off.
OO: “Wow…”
We slowly drew further from the fields of snow, and the beauty took my breath away.
Sefir: “Behold. There, above the clouds, is our sacred temple. And from this day on, you will be staying over there in the royal palace, atop the highest clouds.”
His voice was full of pride as he spoke. I looked up at him, and Sefir smiled at me kindly.
OO: “Does everyone in the Sky Country have wings?”
Sefir: “Indeed. The royals as well as the commoners all have wings.”
OO: “To be able to see this kind of sight anytime you wanted...it sounds so wonderful.”
Sefir’s golden eyes tapered elegantly.
If angels were real…
Sefir danced through the pure white sky, his eyelashes dusted with snow, and the purity I saw there stole away any words I might say.
I’m sure this is what they’d look like.
I remembered the images I’d seen of angels in picture books.
There within the quietly falling snow, I gently pressed my hands to my heart.