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Redemption

I surfaced from his memories, finding his head in my lap.  He clutched at my back like Jacob's wrestling angel. 

“You were so- so young.” I said.  He hadn't been more than eighteen in his memories.

“Yes,” he said quietly.  “I stole you.  I thought you were mine.  It is how I understood things, as toy soldiers and spoils of war.  It was not until I saw my brothers die for me that I realized the gravity of what I had done.  I thought I was liberating us, that I would challenge our Father and demand our freedom.”

“He would not let us step a foot past the Abyss, told us that it was the end.  But I hungered for knowledge, and I sought more, made a pact with it.  The void showed me what was Beyond, for a price.  Now, in a sense, I am it.  It drove me mad, or perhaps made me insane.  Just like our Father was.  He thought Himself the only one.  He could not bear to know there were oth

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