Aeon of Creation Chapter 20

Cocolia had indeed been using the powers of Creation that I had given her with my Gaze. She had seemingly decided to create a large forest of large tree's that outputted a great deal of heat in steam that would work to bring life to the surrounding area around the city.

Almost like how volcanic vents deep in the ocean would be a spotlight of life but here it was to provide life to the frozen wasteland that was Jarilo VI.

Hence I found her having changed out of her elaborate and provocative outfit she was previously wearing to wear thick winter waterproof clothes as she was kneeling on the ground with her hands surrounding a sapling of the same steam expelling tree's she had been planting.

"The other Aeon's don't check upon their Pathstrider's nearly as much as you do." Cocolia admitted quietly without turning around to look at me. My presence wasn't something I could or would bother trying to hide obviously.

"Other Aeon's have thousands if not more Pathstriders to be entertained by. I only have two currently Cocolia." I spoke quietly as I inspected the future tree and saw it's entire life span play out in but a moment to my mind and in that I could see how in the five hundred years it would live. 

The weather of Jarilo VI would become more fair over the years even if it would always have more biting winters than most worlds would have around the equator.

"Hmm, should I be offended that my motions provide you a source of entertainment?" Cocolia mused to herself.

But I didn't reply to her words either, I simply gazed at the woman's back who had left the safety of the city of Belabog and was now roaming the frozen wastes around the city.

Finally I spoke quietly. "You have done good work providing some life outside of the city. But you shoudn't avoid your shame, your past failures. Take hold of them and do your best to help those you have wronged in the past." 

Meaning that she should head down into the Underworld and help rebuild it with her powers as they needed her help much more then the frozen wasteland needed her aid.

There was a pause before Cocolia finally turned around towards me and as she met my gaze. She spoke calmly but her words hit my heart. "I do not know how to respond to you Aeon of Creation. You look so human, yet your eye's are filled with the birth of star's and the renewal of worlds and Creation itself."

She closed her eyes and I saw how her eye's themselves were red not from tear's but from actually staring into my eye's and seeing the barest fraction of my essence as an Aeon.

"Would it make you feel better if I acted the Fool so you could relax?" I asked with a bit of jest making her snort and shake her head.

"No, your easygoing yet firm attitude is much more manageable. Your time playing the fool and making merriment in the Underworld is proof enough of how far you can get carried away." 

Ok... Maybe the cancer-curing hot chocolate moats around the candy castle was a bit much.

"I see..." I spoke softly as I gave the sapling that had grown from a small shrub all the way up to Cocolia's ample chest a final look before I spoke again. "Then I will be leaving with the Astral Express soon. I wish you the best in your Path Cocolia." I finished with myself fading from her vision as I teleported back onto the Astral Express with a flex of my will.

Back in my life-filled room back on the Astral Express, I held a hand up and from my hand, I created a ball of what looked like earth but was covered in ice... But in the center of the equator, there was a tiny speck of something there.

'I will watch over you Jarilo VI, you have earned my gaze for now at least.' I thought as I put the planet's reflection on a small mount I created that made the planet float above it, and then I began slowly spinning to match the current perspective of Jarilo VI's own state.

Then I blinked as Pom Pom's voice rang out through the Astral Express's intercom. "Everyone on board? Good! This is the last warning to get anything you want from Jarilo VI! We are heading to Herta's Space Station in one hour!"

"Hmm, it might be fun to go see March in a manic rush to get the last few pictures in." I mused with a smile as I left my room and headed over to the main train car where people normally relaxed besides the restaurant cart.

And I was totally right as I saw March 7th charging out of the Astral Express alongside Stelle as she shouted in a hurry. "Nooo! I forgot to pick up my soda, tea and other drinks! I can't drink nothing but water and Himeko's tea for days!"

I myself walked over to where I saw Dan Heng and Welt Yang relaxing on the seat's as they were reading some books they had picked up from Belebog and seeing the stack of other books besides them I asked quietly. "Mind if I take a book?" 

Dan Heng didn't look up and simply said calmly. "Go on ahead... They aren't going to be as interesting as the book on the war in conquering the Chocolate Kingdom that will likely be written though." 

I snorted as I picked up what looked like a history book for the city of Belebog and I just plopped down as I saw Eleysia also come and clearly decide to join us in some reading before we began the trip back to Herta's Space station.

And I had a strong feeling... That once I got back to the space station. That I wasn't going to be just 'meeting' one of Herta's puppet dolls. Nope, I would bet anything that Ruan Mei and possibly even Screwellum himself would be there.