158 Her Reasons (2/2)

So many of us died during that war, it was also during that war we found out that we can never come back to life like our Creations who are reborn so long as we their Creator lives.

This truth also forced me into hiding, I hid away from my old friends and my Creations as well.

I was so afraid of death that I awakened the affinity for it, my understanding for it amplified and this also made me realize that we are able to gain control over any affinity so long as we understand it.

So I tried to understand life.

I failed until you were born, I watched your life and it allowed me to once again open up and stop hiding away. Watching you live your life showed me all my flaws when I was young, I never truly lived life I feared and controlled it much like my fear of death.

Once I understood my own flaws about life and death my affinity of life finally awakened.

I should also tell you that many of our kind claim to be the oldest and that they are able to show you our hidden past but I will have you know that I am the Oldest and Strongest of our kind.

Only those of the Old Fraction know of me, those younger Gods of Creation know nothing about me as that was when I hid away from the world.

Only you have earned my trust and friendship Nala.

The two of us are the only ones that know that Dashnell has the affinity of Balance, let's keep it that way Nala.

Those from the Old Fraction will come see you once more, they will poke around and check to see which unique affinities are within your Realm.

The old affinity of Balance was destroyed by us, we ensured no one was allowed to possess it and those who tried to take it and flee were stuck down by all of us.

Everyone within the Old Fraction is afraid that you will create another monster, another God of Balance and this time we are sure we won't be able to kill it. As you are far stronger than the previous Creator of Balance.

Having known that I will die to that youth in the future confirms that he is something we can no longer manage.

The good thing is his obligation to perform his duty, or should I say his loyalty to his Creator, to you.

Nala everything that has happened today will cause rippling changes in time, lucky for us Dashnell died in the Void before he brought us back to the world of the living. This is the very reason he is unbound by all our normal rules, even us Gods must obey a few of the Natural laws of the universe.

Take life and death as an example, while we are immortal we can perish permanently if we die, all of our kind are bound by this law and fear it Nala.

All but us now that Dashnell is our Creator.”

Nala looked at the crazed Istina for a moment and found it hard to stop her from talking, Nala kept listening to Istina ramble on about everything she wanted to know.

From how they formed their rules regarding how they all treat each other, the powerful Old Fraction filled with the oldest of their kind.

What they both knew is that they had to keep it a secret that Dashnell was already fully grown and his affinity of Balance had grown beyond their imaginations.

What they feared most is that while all that has happened inside Nala's Realm and after Istina's Realm collapsed after her first death before restabilizing eons later along with the reappearance of Nala's the other Gods of Creation did nothing.

They were both sure many of the Fractions were watching Nala's Realm and if not the Old Fraction along with Higras were sure to be paying close attention to anything going on within Nala's Realm.

If they saw Nala's Realm collapse they should have also noticed its return and during that time why did they not investigate or demand answers on how she came back to life after dying.

This was even more true for those of the Old Fraction that knew of Istina's origins.

She feared they were planning on capturing Dashnell but were too afraid to do so until they were ready, after all they all learned that Dashnell could bring them back to life. While the two of them knew the exact method the others would have to demand answers from Dashnell himself.

Istina knew they were to afraid to confront the youth.....

As she stopped thinking she realized that she knew of what would happen in the future, those events have yet to happen and she can plan ahead and make it so no one not even Nala would be aware of her actions to conceal Dashnells existence from the Old Fraction and Higras.

”Nala! Make sure you remember to keep 'him' a secret. You must never reveal anything about Dashnell to anyone not even Alda or that Creed General who survived. No one must know about his affinity of Balance until he is born and everything that must happen happens.

I will be busy preparing for our date with death, so while I am away be wary of the Old Elder he will try his best to pressure you to join the Old Fraction. Once you refuse him, show him your might don't hold back and show him that you hold the affinity of Destruction within you.”

Hearing Istina tell her to use her affinity of Destruction Nala looked away shyly as she watched Istina leave, she had never told anyone that she gained the affinity of Destruction as it was looked down upon among their kind to have awakened it so early in one's life.

As the youngest of her kind Nala was ashamed that the second affinity she awakened was that of Destruction, but this is also the reason why in the future she could create the God of Destruction that will save her Realm and eventually give birth to Dashnell God of Balance.