vaati-of-light

    Once again she opens her eyes from the blinding flares of the Light Train. As her vision clears the train slows its pace, pulling over to its first stop, a garden at the foot of a large temple. Silence echoed through the station. And at the end of the garden, a red gate stood in the pink snow of towering trees.      "Pass through the shrine and face your first trial," a voice whispered in her ear. She then walked towards the gate and this way and that with hesitance she took a step forward.  Like a thunderbolt she felt a feeling of guilt, fury, happiness, and desire. "Let your soul be cleanse of all that which makes man weak, if you tru