Last Moments

“So what’s next?”

I turn to look at Tiffith with tears in my eyes. I’ve been dreading this moment for months. It’s true my work is finally complete on the prime. He looks at me that question still in his eyes and I watch as the realization slowly creeps through his mind, the question is answered and I watch the tears welling in his eyes. I can feel him inside me. I feel the pain that he carries at knowing what comes next.

“There is nothing left to do, Tiffith.”

“That’s it? That can’t be it. I know lots of bad people that you could easily take down now. Do some good. I forbid it, you can’t leave.” He reaches in his bag and pulls out a tiny red ribbon and wraps it around my pinky finger. I watch as a tear falls from his eyes onto the ribbon. His voice cracks as he quietly whines, “There, now you can’t leave. I have you tied to me and I won’t let you leave me.”

I just look at him. I have nothing to say to him that will make this any easier for either of us. We knew it was coming. He reaches back to my finger and unties the ribbon and slips it back in his bag.

“Wow. I was always thinking there would be more adventures. More things to do, problems to solve, even knowing this moment would come; I refused to accept it. I know that you must go, I’m just sorry its so soon. Before when I called you my goddess, I never knew what truth it was…” His voice trails and I see the moonlight from my eyes reflecting in his. The forest for just a moment goes unusually silent, as if giving us a last moment of peace.

As the tears began to freely flow from both our eyes, he looks at me, “I’ll always remember you…you will not be forgotten in this world, as long as I live. I love you Gwendolyn, and I don’t know what I’m going to do with out you. I guess I’ll just have to become a god too, so we can be together again…” Even through his tears he’s trying to make the moment more cheerful…we both know it’s not working.

“I’ll keep an eye on you Tiffith. Remember me. I love you.” We reach towards each other and fall into a final embrace.

I begin to remember. I feel like I’m flying. I watch from above as the ribbons of the moonlight gather around my body and begin to freely entwine with my spirit. As I feel the last bits of my humanity slipping into the moonlight, I kiss Tiffith, and I realize that even as a goddess, feeling the touch of human love is going to stay with me long after his lifetime is over. I become the moonlight, I am the moon. I am a goddess.

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