As Above, So Below

Just as it is in your world, everything in the World Between has consequences and nothing – and I mean nothing – ever goes unnoticed.

‘Unnoticed by whom?’ I hear you ask.

Well then, I shall say this: unnoticed by the powers that you mortal girls and boys may call your gods, but who we in the World Between (being as we are essentially practical and arrogant creatures) prefer to call the raw forces of Creation, both in our world and in yours.

At the end of the day, the difference is mainly one of semantics anyway.

My point in all of this is that, whichever higher forces called me to this garden (I say ‘whichever’, but, truth be told, I know exactly who he is and with time so shall you), they presented me with what you may well call a Guide, and although Eshin is really part of my own spirit clad in flesh, the label suits him well enough, and even were it not to, he’s far too good of nature to complain.

However, providing me with Eshin did bring about one rather unfortunate consequence that my mentor had not seen wax on the horizon. And so it happens that, while Eshin is with-out me, there is someone or something else that waxed within me by way of counterbalance. Something that is given voice, and voice enough to interfere.

You have met her here all ready, although you may not know it.

She speaks with a voice very much like mine, and yet also very much her own. And just as fair, sweet Eshin exists to keep me in the light, she is always there to whisper of the darkness. She is the constant threat of lamentation like the rumour of a storm in autumn air.

She has no name to call her own, but I know her as The Shadow Girl.