ARC: Seeds of Calamity

CHAPTER OF THE END - VII - The Devil is in the details (Three)

Jake’s sessions with his psychiatrist went on weekly along the year, and the more he attended the sessions, the more distant from Bert he grew.

And by the end of the year, Bert’s mom passed away.

However, Jake wasn’t there to comfort his friend, nor to know how heavy was the burden that young Bert was carrying.

Young Jacob was too busy pondering and weighing the possibilities of what Mahasiah told him.

Mahasiah was a seraph, an angel from heaven.

Earth wasn’t Eden.

God was dead.

And he was to become the Avatar of Death itself.

Azrael, the archangel of Death.

Years couldn’t have prepared young Jacob to all those truths, and months of ‘therapy’ couldn’t have him accepting all that with a willingly open heart.

Yet he had to.

“Or else, someone other than you will have to carry that burden, and the next in line is your friend, Bertrand. It’s a heavy load to carry,” Mahasi