Username: irockwaffleking
Lion Name: Aion
Link to Pride The PantheonPride Status: Member of Time’s solace (monastery)
Prompt:
In the present I sit on a stone on a mountain peak. 15 minutes ago snow was falling in sheets but now there is nothing but an occasional flurry. I look out at the mountains that have been here much longer than any lion.
When I was born my name was not Aion. The name would be given to me many years after my birth by a bold white Lioness who calls herself Iekika. She was not born with that name as well. We are similar in that way and others.
In the present I remember my mother. It snowed on the day she died. I told her she would die that day. I can see her crying now, telling me that’s not something to say and I shouldn’t make up these things. She would know that I was right though. Smaller things across the years would make her suspect I was telling the truth and she would finally know it was all true when she would lay dying on the battle field. Me right next to her.
It is the present and snow is starting to pick up.
It is my day of birth and I am born with two sets of eyes. No one knows why. Two weeks later my first pair will open, perfectly healthy and normal. The other pair does not open. No one knows whether they will ever open and what will be behind them.
It is one full year after my birth and my mother takes matters into her own hands. She slowly opens my eyes. I do not know what would’ve happened if she had never done it. My eyes seem healthy and normal. They are not normal.
It is the present and I see the snow falling. It is one year after my birth and I see the same snow on the same peak. I am not there, in time or space, but I know it will happen. I tell my mother that is is snowing. She becomes concerned. I play with glass marbles another lion gave me as a gift.
It is the present and I am pulling out marbles from my bag.
Five minutes into the future a strong gust of wind will blow two from my paw and they will fall. I do not move to stop this. I do not put the marbles back into my bag. Even though the time has yet to arrive I’m watching it happen.
In the past I’m watching my mother fall after a warrior attacks her.
In the present the snow is falling.
Years in the past I am befriending a lioness so brightly colored she reminds me of a flower. 5 minutes after we meet I am telling her that, she laughs. I love the sound of her laugh. As I watch her laugh I already know that I will make her cry. It has not happened yet but I see her yelling at me.
In the future I will make the lioness called Iekika laugh. Her laugh is rarer than the other lioness. I will have told her about how I am suspicious of the birds outside the monastery. She will say that I am being ridiculous. I will know I am not but I won’t correct her. She doesn’t know what I can see yet. She doesn’t know I’m seeing it all at once, that as I watch her laugh at me saying I’m suspicious of the birds I’m also watching her face as she realizes what they truly are, that I was right.
She does not know that I’m seeing this all two years in advance. She will only find out when I tell her. In her shock she will drop the necklace she will be making.
Years in the future, the beads are falling.
In the present, snow is falling.
Two minutes into the future now, glass marbles are falling.
The lioness that looks like a flower from my old pride knows that I can see it all. That my second pair of eyes is not normal. She is crying because I am telling her in the future I will leave. She is yelling at me because she is angry that I’m not doing anything. She doesn’t understand that it’s already happening. As she’s standing there yelling at me I’m already in the future walking away and leaving. I’m already on a distant mountaintop. As she’s yelling I’m watching her laugh which is so soothing it sounds like little bells in the wind.
Iekika will yell at me as well. Wondering why I did not tell her. Telling me that it’s no way to live life knowing everything that will happen. That it’s not fulfilling if it has all already been told to me. I will tell her it is fulfilling. I know how my hard work will pay off exactly. I know how my actions will impact others. And that I have no choice. That even if it is no way to live my life I can’t change it. I can’t change anything.
She will leave me in her anger. She is hot headed and fierce and that is what will make me want to speak to her to begin with. When she yells at me during that argument the words will hurt. Just like the flower lioness who has cried. But I know she will forgive me. We will not break apart. Knowing that makes things better. Though her words will always make me wonder what would have happened if I was born normal. Would the events of my life drastically change? Would it happen the same but I would not know what would come next? Would I feel more deeply?
My marbles fall out of my paw after a strong gust of wind hits me.
It is one year after I am born and my mother is opening my eyes. Maybe they were never meant to be opened
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