Still a little strapped for time lately. Another three-parter, but a bit more substance substance in contrast to the sandwiching that formed chapter 27. Enjoy!
Chapter 28: Part 1
He entered their home late at night, his feet tired from a very long walk from Dedicated to East of Eden. As he entered their bed, and wrapped his arms around his wife, he could feel her smile in the darkness. Feeling his heart satisfied by her warmth, he decided upon that feeling that he would wait until the morning came before informing her what steps he knew he must now take. With a heavy, grateful heart, he waited for the light of the sun to waken him from a cocoon of bliss mixed with a mind whose singular disruption was too loud for the continued contentment that otherwise silence would bring.
“I wish to ask for your permission, Isha.”
“When, my husband, have you not had it?”
“Nonetheless . . .”
She noticed the heaviness of his eyes as they looked toward the ground in a far corner of the room.
“Look to me, my husband. What thought could be in your mind to weigh your head away from my face?”
“The thought, My Love, that I ought not be here longer.”
Now it was she who paused in heaviness as her mouth hung just slightly open, still in indecision of what answer to make. She swallowed, and he spoke.
“Returning at last, and finding my peace with you, I heard an emotional impulse, brief, as though it were a voice, and in this I understood the meaning. I understood the meaning for as it was interpreted instinctively in my head-brain, my emotional center was tranquil at once in affirmation of what I thought the impulse within me to mean.”
“Why, my husband, will you not be returning?” She responded as though hearing what was upon his tongue’s tip before he had taken the time to form it there by conscious volition of his intellect.
“I do not know, Love. Merely, my feet will not sustain my walk where I arrive, and that it will not be an unpleasantness.”
As she recalled the unpleasant fate of Adam not 57 years prior, she was made uneasy to recall what they all had seen of him, as though a bird fresh for de-feathering. And she was about to speak –
“No, Eden, I do not believe his fate will be mine. Though, I know I will not be able to hold you again as I have been blessed to once I arrive where I am going.”
“Then you have decided this already, husband, and need no word from me to set yourself where your feet will carry you. Begone then!”
“No, Wife. Though I may hear an echo through my mind for as long as my days, until I should become as rigid as the first man dead, if such is my fate, without the joy in your heart for who I am as I am lead on, as is my wish where my heart connects with what moves my feet, I would not break my covenant with you. Rather I please your decision than the whims of my selfishness should the loudness enter your mind as I seek to empty it from mine.”
For a moment she stopped and stared at Enoch. “Will you be leaving immediately, then, at my acquiescence?”
“No, in not so many days, but not immediately.”
“Then I will not hold you back from following what has led you to myself to begin with. I cannot imagine a louder burden to my own mind should I demonstrate ingratitude for the very reason our life began. Only, I know I will miss you besides, and will not take joy in that fact. You have but to make me one promise, and my blessing is yours.”
“You have but to speak it.”
“You will bid me farewell before you leave, and in that moment let me sate myself upon that moment for so long as I desire.”
“It shall be done as you have spoken.”
“Then, Husband, your feet will carry you where they will, and the life that we have created together will fill my heart though I’ll not feel yours beat next to mine again.”
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