Natasha could not concentrate, she could not urge a simple seed to sprout. She looked at her hand and the damp earth she had just sown a seed in. she chose to practice beside the lake a little off the Castle. The Castle was now on the grounds. They had to reconstruct it. A medieval castle is hardly perfect for living under the sea. After seeing Jody yesterday, she felt like she was again in unknown territory. It is so strange. She materialized full-grown trees in the shadow realm in her mortal body now; she can not even grow a little plant.
She looked at her hands and signed back, retreating.
“Don’t give up,” Azrael leaned away from the tree.
“How long you were here?” She doesn’t want to be seen like this. She had seen Azrael fight, stop an ocean drowning the whole underworld, and smite the entire Castle. In front of him, she knew nothing.
“Long enough to see you losing your patience,” He walked to her.
“I just…,” She looked at the ground, rubbing the center of her palm with her other thumb.
“She lived a good life. Time is different in the underworld,” He pried her hand from her and rubbed a soothing circle behind the back of it. She relaxed and nodded. He had told her Jody lived until 56, married and with kids.
“I don’t know what it is. Why do I feel so…” untethered, she leaned into him.
“You have only been here for three days. It’s like being born new in a new world,” He held her closer.
“Your Master said I should concentrate in here and now, but I don’t know what is here and now,”
How does one begin to know the world? One didn’t even know it existed before three days, but on earth, seventy-two years have passed since she entered the celestial realm.
Azrael watched the lost look on her face that only came to focus when she looked back at him, but She needed to know things beyond him and the underworld. If she didn’t venture outside. How would she know what she could be?
“I want to help you, but I find myself lacking,” it was painful confessing but saying it out loud. Took a weight off her chest.
“You are perfect,” He kissed her forehead.
“Thank you for saying it,” She leaned away from him.
“We should go back,” she said, turning away.
“You know what you need?” He said, and she turned back at him, “What?”
“I think you should take a master,”
“You want me to go to the God of Wars academy?” She frowns.
“Sure, if you are interested in War strategy and politics and you are secretly a man,” He mockingly narrowed his eyes.
“What?” she was confused, Was she just heard Azrael joking? Or war strategy and politics are only for man.
“Never mind,” He shook his head. “The point is there are other masters and academies in the celestial realm,” He said, taking her hand. “You were a physician in the mortal realm. You can learn to practice medicine here,”
“I can do that,” She looked at him astonished. She was so concentrated on trying to fit into Azrael’s world. She never gives thought to find her own.
“Who will teach me?” but the first question is. “The celestial need medicine? Wow,” with all its magic and spiritual process, there is science here.
Azrael laughs at her expression.
“You are the goddess of life. I know a person who would take you as his student,” He wrapped his arms around her waist, leading her back to their half-fallen Castle.
“Who?”
“Medicine King Ved,”
Wow, there is so much to know.