About a certain return

Part 16

- Why aren't we passing straight through here?

- He cannot penetrate obstacles.

- But it isn't difficult at all...

- Can you pass through walls? I was scared. Are you immaterial?

- So and so, said the one carrying me, it's a bit complicated but soon you'll have the opportunity to try for yourself.

- Where are you going, I braced myself to ask, seeing that once they reached a position above the street, they were trying to get out of the city area. I'll get of this vehicle.

- Ha-ha-ha, he doesn't know! Your path leads to the Astral Light. If you return, you'll fall back into the devils' trap. We are you chance and you are our chance. Go towards your salvation.

- But who will save them, said I in an outburst of sensitivity?

- If you're looking for a noble cause, tell yourself you will be fighting to offer light. From now on you'll have to struggle hard to overcome the treacherous traps of the Gramon servants'.

- But I'd like to see one more time my street, my house... I said carried away by an unusual nostalgia... my wife, my friends, the city...

I was wandering around its streets crying, looking at its buildings, its walls, and its pavements, hearing its songs, the familiar rumor... What a powerful drug is the memory... There used to live my first girlfriend, there were my scatter-brained friends of my youth, there I got married, my poor wife, I feel so sorry for her... The Parliament, The Botanic Garden, the Animal's Menagerie, The Great Circus, the temples, the stadiums... megalomaniac buildings dug by thousands and thousands of unhappy people, that gladly accepted their torments in exchange for the pleasant senses of life, for the simple gifts of life, as they were called by the great intelligent ones of the World. And they were all running, chained together in a story that had been my life...

- This is the first trap, emphasized the one that seemed to be the Princes of Light group's leader. We call it "Funny the Nostalgic". Do you think you're out of the woods? No, whatsoever it's a powerful demon that you cannot get rid of easily. He will always be nearby, claiming he served you and you are obliged to him. What can you offer to make him leave you?

- But I don't what him to leave me. I identify myself through him. It's me, I had parents, a family, friends, they all belonged to me, I was born in a certain place, I had my habits that most people have... Otherwise, who shall I be?

- A god...

- Yes.

- Yes...

I spotted a large land slide. Terribly deep. A whole build area, maybe more, went underground!

- So it's true! The cave is continuously expanding!

- But not upwards, downwards, said the one who looked the youngest.

- Our path is going exactly down. The earth quake opened channels. We must take advantage of it as after a short time, the ground will reset itself.

And I followed them down. My senses changed in a strange way, I could see around me without turning my head, I could foresee the way we were following, I knew the way as if it were a highway, but the most unexpected sense was that of imponderability. It seemed I had no weight and even managed to float in the air along with my companions without holding on to them. One or two moments.

- You are full of parasites, said the Leader. Be patient as we'll clean you soon!

We got into a corridor that becomes narrower until it got blocked completely. The lad crushed against the rock and vanished. "Oh, I said, poor chap! How easily these beings disintegrate! Crack and he's gone!"