Now and Forever

He watched, speechless.

“They have finished with me, for now,” she said. “My body is gone. My spirit waits to be born anew. Soon, a new body will be made, and my soul will be bound to it. We are all born again, first son, an endless cycle of souls and bodies. They have us, now and forever, life after life of brutality and suffering.”

Her eyes flashed open, burning with all the ferocious light and power of a newly born sun.

“AND IT WILL END!” she screamed, and her words were the rage of a thousand screaming, venomous souls.