Redemption

'There is no life in the void, only death...' He roamed the emptiness for many years. Rest was denied to him, the very oblivion would be preferrable to this. Yet he endured it, knowing he provoked it. He had died in battle, yes, under the flag of his Lord's ethos. Yet his faith had been shaken during the last days of his mortal life and now there was no place for him among the angels of his Lord. For some reason his spirit had been preserved in this vast and empty space of nothingness, for what purpose he knew not. Today he felt restless and agitated in mind. After many long hours of anticipation he felt himself being dragged somewhere else, by some unseen hand. --------------------------------------------------------- He was lying on a stony floor, in some familiar temple. Naked and in pain, realization found him; He was alive once again, this time in flesh and blood and not in a partial undead form. He raised his head and saw a familiar figure approaching. Xeralis Xin stood above the reborn man and said in a loud and clear voice; 'Rise now, Khalan, for your time of loneliness and punishing emptiness has ended. You have endured the judgement of our Lord and you have been found worthy of a second chance to honor Him.' Khalan stood up and his mind was in peace for the first time after many long years. 'Come now, my brother, let us depart this holy place and enter the inner compounds of His sacred Church. Let us walk together, with honor, and enter the house of Tyr.' Walking side by side, Khalan Ghundabar and Xeralis Xin left the temple.