Talibah - The Egyptian
Chapter 3 - Page 1
The Great Crossover

“The Eldritch call their Realm the Realm of Light. Or at least that is as close to human speech and meaning that I can come. This Realm, the Realm that you, and more simply humans, think of as the real or physical world is often referred to as the Realm of the Wheel.

“Now it isn't that there isn't birth and death in the Realm of Light, but in the Realm of the Wheel one gets caught up in a cycle of forgetfulness; lives are short and lessons difficult to learn, difficult to maintain. In the Eldritch lives are as long as we dictate and end only because we crave a new beginning, a new perspective and we have access to what we wish to remember and how we wish to remember it.

“However, one from the Realm of Light who truly crosses over physically to the Realm of the Wheel can be caught by the Wheel and remain there until they progress as any human does through lives upon lives to finally obtain release. So, some 'humans' are really human bodies with Elven souls, destined to continue here in the Wheel

“There was a time long ago – so far back in memory that few Eldritch choose to remember it – when many of the Elven folk deliberately crossed from the Realm of Light to the Realm of the Wheel. The Elven call this the Great Crossover when many of the Eldritch crossed into the Realm of the Wheel never to return. At that time many of the Realms' Gates were naturally more open and the energies were not fixed. The Earth was in a great state of flux and through the Eldritch She had first become conscious for we are Her first children; and then it began to flow into the Wheel where that consciousness began to appear in the first humans. It caused a fascination in the Eldritch and they began to watch these humans of the Wheel in curiosity.

“Understand that the Realm of Light is within the living aspects of the Earth; the energies, the trees, the lakes, the mountains. It ebbs and flows quickly yet it always remains; it transmutes in a graceful dance that never severs it ties and always remembers from whence it came. In some ways the Elves are always near to the Wheel, close by, nearly touching. Very much part of the fabric of the Earth. And in some ways cousins to the humans who had begun to emerge, whose spirits had just begun to perceive their own being. There was an attraction, a curiosity, an expectation as the humans began their first steps into true self awareness.

“There was a little bit of crossover at that time that wasn't 'catching'. I mean, quick appearances back and forth, flirtations really. The veils were fairly thin, the Eldritch curious and as long as it was brief, nothing happened; and no-one even realized that anything could. Few humans at that time had any propensity to cross. I don't even know of many tales to that end except encouraged by the fascination of the Elves themselves.

“Elves... what an interesting word... a human word, really, though I've grow used to it. We don't really have a word, you know. We're just 'us', though there are many who are aware and use the word 'Elf' and such. Some may choose to use the word, some are repulsed by it, some simply don't care. Jared, I'd say, falls into the 'don't care' category. And there is much variety in the Eldritch, you probably noticed that. That comes from 'where-ever' in the Earth's energy those beings, souls, spirits reside. I think humans would actually refer to Cordelia, me, Jared as 'High Elves'. High Elves... I guess because we tend to look like humans for the most part. Are more like humans... Closer 'cousins' as it were. Energy is more similar, more conducive. It was mostly 'High Elves' that would cross to the Realm of the Wheel.

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