Even before I finished my thought I feel my environment shift, the darkness and the golden light is nowhere to be found again, and what I see around me are massive plains! Plains with beautiful, ankle hight, blue-green grass.
As I'm standing there mesmerised looking around me at the amazing view of a rising sun shedding it's red light over the blue-green grass. But then I notice something missing, wasn't Goba supposed to be here?
"I am here Gosamu."
And yes, there he is, standing behind me. I'm sure there was no one there a moment ago! It startled me when he talked so suddenly, but I'm glad I didn't show it.
"Were you standing there the entire time?"
He looks kind of puzzled at my question "Of course not, you called me here, so here I am."
He nods once more, as if it's really logical. Let's just stop wondering about that for now, I know a few things about the insides of my world, but I definitely don't know everything!
"Can you tell me about where we are now?"
Only now does Goba start looking around, he scratches the back of his neck. "No idea? The grass looks pretty special though, maybe Soul Plains, as the grass has the same color as they used to describe souls. But it's your world, you can name it." he ends his sentence with a small bow. This politeness is still pretty weird to me.
"I like the name, let's go with that. Also, you were in my world before, but where were you?"
He looks puzzled again, as if I'm supposed to know that answer already. "I was at the First Temple. I've spend most of my time hanging from the temple, watching the Moon disappear. If you think about that we should be there right now, we probably will appear there."
So maybe that's how it works, when I thought that Goba should be here, he appeared. So if I think that the both of us should be at the First Temple we will appear?
My mouth drops open at what I see, I don't even have time to think about that we moved, one moment I'm in the plains, the other somewhere completely else! It's really disorientating. But what else amazes me is that what I see is not a temple like we have in the city. I see a tower, but I don't see the end!
"Welkom Creator, to your temple, the First Temple! The hight represents your greatness, even though it's an imperfect representation, your greatness has no end! But this tower does, even though we can't see it from here." Then Goba points up to a point high above the ground, there I can see two small rings. "I've spent my time there, hanging there listening to the Temple teaching me about you, about your potential, opening my eyes to how you were even greater than I already thought you were! For you the time we didn't see each other might have looked like minutes, but hanging there under the effect of the Temple, it was days, weeks, probably something close to a month! I've learned a lot about this place, I've learned a lot about you."
Goba looks glad about that he had a chance to get this, but wouldn't a month of something telling you about anything at all drive you crazy? Maybe it's just because Goba has such a strong mind! He's amazing.
"But Goba, you said you needed to repent for your sins, is that why you were hanging there? What were your sins?"
His happiness and excitement dies down right away, he falls to the ground, bangs his forehead on the ground! Was it that hard? He even starts shouting his apology.
"Master Gosamu, I have schemed against you, used your hand to kill that bird! How could this not have been a great sin! I even went as far as saying that you could free me if you grew stronger, even though I knew the only way for me was death. In a way that was the truth though, the old Goba who lied and schemed against his brother has died. And the new Goba, the First Priest that will spread the knowledge about you has born! Could you please forgive me!?"
I kind of already knew what he did, I overheard their conversation. I already came to peace with what they did, and I even found a way to let Goba survive! He even got punished for what he did, and we got out stronger. So al in al, it's only natural that I do forgive him.
Walking close to Goba I put my hand under his shoulder and pull him up. "Don't be like that, we both know that what you did was wrong, and that it shouldn't happen again. But you clearly regret, and you have repented for your mistakes, we will start again."
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"But Goba, you said you needed to repent for your sins, is that why you were hanging there? What were your sins?"
The further he got into that sentence the brighter he became. He started like a gentle sunrise, but now he was burning down like the sun in the desert that is at the highest point of the sky! Something that should be respected and feared. I can't look at him anymore, the longer I have him in my eyes the greater my regret grows.
*Thud* I bow down to him with my face to the ground, how could I even look him straight in his eyes as I tell him what I did to him!
As I continue telling him what I did the regret that was fading away after the punishment started boiling up again, my foolishness for even thinking I could simply borrow a hand this great for something as insignificant as revenge! Even though I couldn't see how grand he would become, I thought I saw a candle but I was looking at the sun with my eyes closed!
After I finish speaking all that's left for me is to wait for my judgement. A tiny goblin like me having the chance for forgiveness of a being with the potential to leave this world and create a thriving world of his own, that in itself is an honor. Even if he doesn't forgive me and throws me in the endless pit, I'd be at peace.
But the endless pit isn't what will happen to me, I feel his hand on my shoulder, pulling me up. As I look up at him I see another image in my mind, the sun breaking through a heavy rainstorm. A beautiful sight, the beams of light make the still falling drops of rain sparkle in the air, a rainbow colors the gray clouds high in the sky.
He forgives me, and indeed, it is a new start! I might always just stay a candle, invisible in the light of the sun, but I will always be there. Giving my all to support my master, to support the creator of this beautiful world, to support Gosamu!
Even just this makes me feel stronger, maybe I can grow into something that can really stay of help for him, even if he grows so much that my mind can't fathom it anymore! He truly opened my eyes!
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"Goba, your eyes!?"