The Kingdom

My hand hurt and gingerly I felt at it. It wasn't broken!

That was strange as I could've sworn that it had been. Wheezing slightly I got up to my knees and felt at my ribs. Not broken. Not possible and yet reality.

I'd wrestled with a Malachim. I shouldn't be alive, yet I was. Not only alive but mended of my injuries. I flexed the fingers of my hand that had been broken, but now didn't even hurt. With every passing moment I felt better and better.

Soft fingers were suddenly feeling at my face as Susori's voice rang out with concern, "Who was that? How are you even alive?"

There was enough grey light of early dawn to see by now and I stared into Susori's face etched tight with concern. "You saw the fight?"

"Yes, I've been in the rocks watching for hours!" she said in a shaken tone and then sounding even more shaken she said, "Your beard…… it has white hair in it!"

I hadn't really heard what she'd just said as my mind was too consumed with what she'd said at first. "Hours?" I asked uncertainly. To me the fight had only lasted but a few minutes.

"Yes! You've been fighting with an invisible being for hours and now your beard has white hair in it! You should be dead and you're not! This isn't possible! None of what I've seen is possible! How did you hold on to that which can't be seen? I…….I don't understand! I'm scared by this! It's impossible!"

Smiling I cupped her face with both of my hands, "Susori, with El Elyon all things are possible. Even saving the children and rescuing your kingdom from destruction. El Elyon cares. He doesn't just care about Kingdomer's, but He has a heart for the lost. I tell you now that it was no accident that I was brought to your brother's palace just as it's no accident that I'm here with you now, the other half of my soul. You have but to see and you too will believe, even as I do, in El Elyon."

Tears touched my hands in abandon as she shook her head and she said, "I still don't understand!"

In a tone of comfort I said, "It's all right, you will, I promise. Do you believe me?"

Slowly her head nodded yes in the enclosure of my hands. My desires of earlier, coupled with the joy of still being alive, returned with full force and I found myself kissing her with all the passion that I felt for her. She responded to my kiss with equal abandon, which only drove our shared passion for each other higher.