Chapter Thirty Eight

The Snow Girl stood in a forest of snow. White snowflakes fell from the grey sky, disappearing into the powder around her.

Before her was a white war horse. On its back was a woman in green, her black hair flowing to the end of her back.

"Who... Who are you?" The Snow Girl said.

The woman looked her into the eyes. "I am nobody."

The Snow Girl looked around at the trees and the endless sky.

"Where am I?" She asked.

"You are no where." The woman said. "At least, you are no where of your own world."

The Snow Girl tilted her head.

"We are in your soul, my child."

The Snow Girl's heart began to beat faster and faster.

"Why am I here?" She asked, trying to understand what reality she had entered.

"Your soul is where one spends eternity when you die."

Her heart stopped beating.

"I've... Died?" The Snow Girl choked. She clutched her heart, and fell to her knees, looking at the ground.

"Ah, nay child. I am the one who determines this. You see, in your reality, one can be judged by their death to determine if they may be granted second life."

The Snow Girl looked up at her. "What?" She whispered.

"Yes. Most often, one is not granted this. If it is an old man who died in his rocking chair, he's had a long lived life, and now deserves to rest. If it is a child in their first day of spawning, they now are able to run, play, and live eternally, never knowing the unforgiving pain one suffers throughout life. You players don't realize that dying, is not death. Living is not life, either. Once you have died, you never again have to fear of dying again."

The Snow Girl stood up, forgetting her numbness she was in from her shock.

"What about the evil people in the world? They forever live eternal happiness?"

"Child, I never said that you forever live in happiness. I said that you live eternally in your soul. If you were a kind, and good person, you forever live in the goodness of your soul. If you were an evil, wicked person, you forever dwell in the wickedness of your soul, feeling ever so much more pain and suffering than you ever could when you were alive. You are more alive in death than in life."

The Snow Girl looked around her, at the cold beautify and tranquility of her own soul.

"And I will live eternality here?"

"Yes, you shall. But not yet, child. In your case of death, you still have far to much to do in your life before you leave it forever. You will not die yet."

"What do I have that must be done?" The Snow Girl asked, her face lighting up with this hope.

"Ah, but that would be taking control of your fate in life. That is not my purpose. Only death." The woman smiled. "Besides, you already know."

The Snow Girl smiled in happiness. She was going to be given a second chance.

"But there is one thing I must tell you to do." The woman's face grew serious.

The Snow Girl stood still, her mind racing with possible tasks.

"You must forgive the man who killed you."

The Snow Girl's heart sank. What??

"Him?" She said, unable to believe her outrageous demand. "HIM??"

"Yes." The woman said quietly.

"HIM? The man who torched and killed me in the worst way I dreamt about every night, burning at the stake, draining every ounce of life from me until I was gone? Him??"

"Yes."

The Snow Girl stumbled back. "H... How? How will I be able to do this impossible task?!"

The woman leaped off her horse. "Child, come here." She said, firm yet compassionate. The Snow Girl did as she asked, shaking as she inched toward the mystical woman in green.

When the girl made of snow stood before her, the woman reached out, and hugged her.

"Snow, I am the reason that people die every day and never come back. So if you were a player, and I let your life end forever for not giving you a second chance so you would have eternal peace in your soul, would you forgive me?"

The Snow Girl rapidly nodded her head.

"I'm also the person who's giving you a second chance in life, because I know that you aren't ready to die yet."

The woman broke away from her hug, but left her hands on the girl's shoulders.

"Sky may have ended your life, but he also gave you a second chance at it."

The Snow Girl's eyes dilated.

"When you were drowning when you were still the squid girl, Sky knew who you were when he saw you. You were a squid. You were his enemy. You were the person sworn to destroy him. But he also knew that you were just a kid, and had so much life ahead of you. He gave you a second chance at it when he saved you that day."

The Snow Girl began to understand.

"I know it seems impossible to forgive that man, killing you in the worst way you could ever fear. But the real Sky wasn't inside of his body as he killed you. No, he was so heartbroken and over whelmed by the lose of another person he loved, he ignored your cries of mercy as the squids dragged you away. He could not believe that he person he loved that was so perfect to him, was so wound up in her past that she could have never hoped to control, and there was not a thing he could do about it. This caused him to eventually go insane. The only way his mind could cope with this was to find someone to blame."

The Snow Girl swallowed.

"Instead of trying the near impossible task of trying to forgive Sky in the last and latest form you saw him, try to forgive him as the man who had such compassion for you, he saved your life, even as his greatest enemy, who had killed his first love before you. Try remembering him as the man who took you under his wing the day you came out of the woods with your snow golem. Remember him as the man who shared his deepest secret and heartbreak he felt with you, and risked his heart again to love you. The man who was so in love and fond of, he fired the finest sorcerer in all of Minecraftia in his anger and sadness of knowing that you would never love him the way he loved you."

The Snow Girl began to cry, not knowing until now how much pain her existence in that man's had caused.

"Shhh. Shhh. It's ok. It's not your fault. All this pain is just part of life. But when you love and forgive, the pain fades, and the love it brings is almost as fulfilling as death itself." The woman said as she hugged the girl.

The Snow Girl whipped her eyes with the back of her eyes. Forgiveness was love. She now knew how easy it was to forgive. She would now of course forgive him with no hesitation.

No wait,

She already had.

Now all she could hope was that he could forgive her from all the pain she caused him.

"What do I do about Seto?"

"Don't love Sky in that way just because you don't want him to feel pain. Love someone because you love them. If you're not meant to be with Sky, someone he'll love even more will come into his life. But always have a special love for him that you'll always love him for."

The Snow Girl smiled. Now all she had to do was show this love to Sky.

"Now, it's about time for you to go back to Minecraftia. I have an old man who's been waiting to join his wife ever sense she died, and it's finally his time."

The woman helped The Snow Girl onto the white horse. When she was properly on the saddle, she knew it was time to say goodbye.

For now.

"Oh, one more thing." The Snow Girl said. "You said that when the man died, he would be with his wife. I thought you only live in your soul, alone in happiness for eternity."

"Ah, my dear, that is the best part! When you love someone, your souls merge and become one! Even after death, you'll never have to say good bye."

A warmness so deep it could almost melt her set upon The Snow Girl.

She would never have to say goodbye.

The woman began to twirl her hands in a ball, and began to form a green magic that swirled around The Snow Girl.

"In the same way I do this for Ender Dragon, whenever he is slain, when you awake, you will feel none of the pain you felt when you died. But an overwhelming soreness and immobility will wash over you, just as with the dragon. But unlike him, I know there is someone waiting for you when you wake up, and will help you wear this pain away."

The Snow Girl's body relaxed, and her eye lids grew heavier and heavier. All the woman said to her was but a whisper in the back of her mind.

The woman smiled.

"Take her back, Agarn." She whispered to the horse. It gave a soft whinny, and gently clopped away on the path of green magic the woman had made, that rose higher and higher into the air, reaching past The Snow Girl's soul, and to her reality beyond.

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