[ Past Event ]
[ 19th Century, Somewhere in a world ]
Year 1997 Month 10 Day 10
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ALBERT paced up and down the aisle restlessly as he kept throwing anxious glances at the wooden door. It was supposed to be the happiest time of his life yet his heart constricted in pain to every scream that pierced through the door.
"Eloisa, my dear, please make it. Please be okay!" he pleaded to the heavens in distress.
Sweat drenched his shirt and dripped from his forehead. Every nerve in his body tensed, his fists were tightly clenched as he hoped for the heart-wrenching trial to be over. It had been hours since his beloved went in, yet it seemed like an eternity to him. Then, a heavy silence blanketed the house. The screaming had stopped. The watch on his wrist ticking, tick...tick...tick...tick...
CREEEEAK!
The heavy oak door opened slowly under the weight, pressure tackling its rusty hinges. Holding the door open is his beloved's mother. Albert looked up in expectation and saw her crumpled face. He frowned deeply, thinking hard, but his thoughts were interrupted by a soft cry from within the room.
Albert rushed in as fast as a bullet into the room and saw his beloved, carrying something small in a cotton blanket. Eloisa lifted her head towards the sound of panting breaths. She smiled weakly and lifted their love towards him.
Albert gingerly took their love into his huge arms and caught his breath upon seeing her face. She looked as enchanting as her mother, his beloved. Albert dazed at her face for a moment and turned to smile at Eloisa, just in time to see her fall onto the bed heavily.
Shock wrote all over his face as he stared in horror at his beloved, watching her soft lips form a word and a glistening tear roll down her pale cheeks as she started to close her eyes. Albert slowly sat on the bed, beside her. He trailed after the tear and kissed it gently before it disappeared down her neck.
"I love you," he whispered in her ear and bended over her carefully to place a light kiss on her forehead, "Elo-Eloisa." his voice broke and tears streamed down his rugged face. Muffled cries sounded from his mother-in-law who slumped against the door for support as her knees gave way, her wrinkled hands covering her mouth, face streaked with tears.
That fateful night, it was as if the heavens heard their cries and felt their desolation. A flash of light broke through the dark stormy clouds and shone through the window onto the baby. As if he felt its touch , his eyelashes fluttered and opened gradually. Albert stood up in a daze and shuffled towards the window.
Streaks of light trailed one after another, never-ending. Each fell from the great heavens onto Earth in a spectacular display, although their brightness sputtered as they neared landing and faded into nothingness. The enchanting moon's light was but a dim, its presence fading behind the rain of light, the celestial descending upon the land bodies.
The heavens have brought his beloved to the kingdom above. He sighed as the last tendrils of her light caressed his face in a final farewell. All the stars were falling yet Albert felt overwhelmed with blissfulness. She bestowed him with a gift and he is going to protect him, their love.
'And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;