Prompt #41 - one of the happiest moments
I've many long years and many memories to examine, and many of them have been happy. The funny thing about asking about one happy moment is that they are generally tied to other moments. Much like a gentle rain fall that produces a beautiful showing of flowers afterward.
And then there are those happy moments that arrive on the wings of a tempest. In the midst of death and destruction, of reality twisting and raining fire, I found the rarest blossom of all. Forgiveness. [It is still a concept that is foreign and unfamiliar to me, but I am learning.] When Abel appeared before Caine and spoke the words 'I forgive you' I thought that he was speaking solely to his brother. Another, smarter, maybe humbler part of me grasped that Abel was speaking to Caine and all of his dark get. That smarter part of me grasped for and clung to that slender thread as the world snapped around me. I thought that I was going to die, finally die, and I knew regret as I've never tasted it before.
To say that the moment I opened my eyes and discovered my heart beating again after it had been stilled for over three centuries was one of the happiest in my life... that is just a bit of an understatement.