Before the Forgetting

This story is already on the timeline my loves…

They will try to call it myth.

They will try to call it symbolism.

Some will say it was only a story.

Perhaps that is exactly what stories are for…

There was a time before the forgetting.

Before history became fragmented.

Before names were given to things that could never truly be named.

And in that time, there was a General…

She was unlike the others.

She never stood still before a battle.

She paced.

Back and forth.

Left to right.

Left to right.

It was not nervousness.

It was meditation.

Every step quieted the noise until only purpose remained.

In each hand rested a sword.

She had never carried a shield.

Not because she believed herself invincible...but because she was…that is exactly why she always went first…

In every life she incarnated whether seer or leader or queen she had always decided that if she were to ask another to walk into danger, she would never ask them to step where she herself would not go first.

Before her stretched an endless field.

Standing opposite her were beings no human language had ever learned to describe.

Not the races whispered about in legends.

Not the figures people argued over in books or stories.

Not the familiar names humanity would use to explain the galactic.

These belonged to something else entirely.

Something older.

Something stranger.

They were not born from cruelty.

Nor were they born from hatred.

They existed because consciousness, like muscle, expands through resistance.

Not because suffering is desired...

But because growth often asks something to push against.

They were one expression of that resistance.

A force permitted to move within creation—not to extinguish life, but to challenge it into becoming more than it had been yesterday.

Behind the General stood another army.

Humans.

Draconians.

Reptilians.

And farther behind them, those whose work was not battle.

The healers.

The peacemakers.

The ones who steadied frightened hearts.

Those who guided families to safety.

Those who rebuilt what war threatened to destroy.

Every being served a purpose.

Not every purpose required a sword.

The General continued pacing.

Her boots pressed into the earth with measured rhythm.

She stopped.

Turned toward the first ranks.

Her voice carried without effort.

“My loves...

This is the moment I have been preparing you for.

Not because I wished for it...

But because I knew one day it would arrive.

Look beside you.”

They looked.

Some saw faces unlike anything they had ever trusted.

Some saw scales.

Some saw eyes unlike their own.

Some saw features they had once believed belonged only to enemies.

She smiled.

“You spent your lives believing difference meant division.

Today you will learn that difference can become strength.

The one beside you is not your enemy.

They are your other arm.

You are their other arm.

And no body walks forward by asking one side to become the other.

It moves because each side learns to trust the other.”

Silence swept across the field.

Then she lifted one sword toward the horizon.

“When history remembers this day...

It will remember your names.

It will remember mine.

And it will remember what happened here…

It will remember that, for one moment, those who believed they could never stand together...

Did.”

She lowered the blade.

“When you move...

Move as one body.

When you protect...

Protect one another.

When one falls...

Another lifts them.

When one grows weary...

Another carries the weight.

You do not stand beside your own kind today.

You stand beside your own purpose.”

The first line erupted.

The warriors repeated every word.

Not because they had been ordered to...

But because that had always been the way.

The front carried the voice.

The second line answered.

Then the third.

Then the fourth.

Until the words rolled across the battlefield like thunder.

“You are their other arm!”

“You are their other arm!”

“You move as one body!”

“You move as one body!”

The earth itself seemed to answer.

The General closed her eyes for only a heartbeat.

Then she laughed.

Not from arrogance.

Not from certainty.

But from the strange joy that always appeared just before stepping into the unknown.

She turned toward the horizon.

The army waited.

Every eye fixed upon her.

She never asked another to make the first step.

She never had.

Whether crossing battlefields...

Crossing worlds...

Or crossing lifetimes...

She had always been the first to walk.

Not because she believed herself greater.

But because someone must become the path before others can discover they were capable of walking it too.

And so, as she always had...

She stepped forward first….then…

She turned just before she charged.

The battlefield fell silent.

Every eye rested upon her.

She smiled—not with arrogance, but with the kind of love that only someone who had carried others for a very long time could possess.

“My loves...

You forgot.

All of you forgot.”

Her gaze drifted across the lines.

“You forgot that you were born of something sacred.

You forgot you were all from me…from the divine…from the same ocean in which you all become after death…

You forgot that before there were kingdoms, before there were names, before there were divisions... there was only purpose.”

She looked toward the Draconians.

“And you...

You forgot that I shaped you in the image of my shadow—not so you would take without regard, not so you would become consumed by power, but so you would stand where others could not. You were never created to become monsters.

You were created to become guardians.”

Then she looked toward the Reptilians.

“And you, my loves...

You forgot as well.

You forgot that strength without compassion eventually forgets why it exists.”

Finally, her eyes rested upon the humans.

“And you...

You forgot perhaps the most precious thing of all.

You forgot that your greatest gift was never your hands...

Never your minds...

Never your ability to build.

It was your ability to feel.

To love so deeply that you would willingly stand between danger and another soul.”

She took another step.

“Somewhere along the journey, every one of us lost our purpose.

Every one of us forgot.”

She lifted both swords.

“But today...

Today we remember.”

Her voice rose across the field.

“You will not fight for me. No my loves…

You will not fight for some distant idea of the Divine you were told was true…

No...

I ask something far greater.

I ask each of you to hold one thing in your heart.

One person.

One child.

One memory.

One promise.

One reason you chose to continue existing.

Hold that purpose.

Carry it into every step.

Carry it into every breath.

Because purpose is stronger than fear.”

The first ranks repeated her words.

Then the second.

Then the third.

Until the entire field echoed as one voice.

“Purpose is stronger than fear.”

She laughed softly.

“My loves...

As long as I draw breath, I will remind you who you are.

I will remind you where you came from.

And I will remind you that none of you have ever been alone.”

Her smile grew wider.

“And I am not leaving.

Not this lifetime.

This lifetime... I stay.

This lifetime, you will know who I am.

And, more importantly...

You will remember who you are.”

Without another word, she turned.

As she always had.

As she always would.

She ran first.

She always ran first.

The army watched the smallest figure become the first to cross the empty ground between hope and fear.

Some said it was courage.

Others believed it was madness.

She had never cared which one they chose.

She simply understood that no one should ever be asked to walk a path their leader was unwilling to walk before them.

When the battle finally ended, the silence always came first.

It was never victory that stayed with her.

It was remembrance.

She walked slowly across the field, pausing beside every fallen soul, friend and foe alike.

Each life had held dreams.

Each had carried memories.

Each had once belonged to someone.

War never erased that truth.

When the pyres were prepared, she stood before the flames in quiet meditation, offering gratitude for every life that had crossed her own, even for those who had stood against her.

Only then did she allow herself to breathe.

Only then did the weight return.

Someone always found her there.

Someone who had known her across lifetimes.

Someone who never asked whether she was strong.

Because he already knew.

He understood that strength was never the absence of grief.

Strength was choosing to carry it without allowing it to become hatred.

He never offered speeches.

Sometimes he simply stood beside her.

Sometimes they laughed over something impossibly small.

Sometimes neither of them spoke at all.

The others gathered as night settled across the camp.

Food was shared.

Stories returned.

Old songs found their voices again.

The wounded were tended.

The fallen were honored.

Armor was removed with gentle hands.

Every act became one of respect.

Not because war deserved celebration...

But because life deserved remembrance.

And as the firelight danced across every face, there was a feeling no one could quite explain.

It was as though something ancient stirred beneath the surface of every soul.

Not memory exactly.

Recognition.

As though, for one fleeting evening, they remembered who they had been...

Before the great forgetting…

Love Your Silvia❤️

You feel it, don’t you, my loves?

You feel the weight of your weapon in your hands… the choice… the purpose… because you are there, my loves. The 3D is catching up.

But you, my loves, whether you chose a weapon or chose to hold someone while watching the fight, you are already there.

And that weapon that first came to your mind while you read… that is the truth of it.

Not imaginary.

Not imagery.

But your soul reminding you of what you are remembering about yourself.

You are not weak, my loves.

Do not let the world tell you that you are not strong, or worthy, or connected to something sacred.

Something that is already here.

Something that is already with you, my loves.

In the mud.

Waiting for the day we fight side by side…

Or greet each other afterward in tears...