Chapter Seventy-One

You gave me love and helped me find the sun;
And ev'ry time that I was down
You would always come around
And get my feet back on the ground.
Seasons In The Sun
Terry Jacks

The funeral for the fallen Royal Family of Altair Ain was more than grand.  The entire world turned out to say good-bye to Calla.  Heads of State poured in from every corner of the Universe and spectators and mourners filled the small village.

Daniel stood there numb as Morgan performed her ceremony in front of the pyre holding the bodies of Danny, Brigid, Annie, Amy, Calla and Ares.  He’d cried for days. Nothing seemed real any more.  How could one man have caused so much destruction and heartache?  It didn’t seem possible as he stood there with the mourners.

“Here lies the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. From Death Comes Life.” Morgan pronounced.

That was his cue, his and Nick’s.  Daniel couldn’t do it.  He tried but he couldn’t step forward and put the torch in his hand to the tinder below her body.  He looked up at Nick shaking with tears flooding his cheeks.  Nick was just as devastated as he was. Father and Son had both lost so much it was inconceivable.   “I love you, Kitty, I’ll always love you. I never love another woman. Oh God please bring her back.”

All the bargaining in the world wouldn’t make it come true for him.

“Good-bye, my love.”  Gathering all that he had so that he could honor her in this last way Daniel touched the torch to the tinder setting her body ablaze and sending her to the Underworld with two gold coins on her eyes.

Daniel thought he’d never stop crying or aching for all that he’d lost.  If he could just hold her one more time. Make love to her and hear her whisper his name in his ear…just one more time. Just once.

But he would never hold her again.

End of Chapter Seventy-One
Golden Years
by Moon Mistress
a/k/a Lisa Beth Darling
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