âDo you like them?â, Life asked, smiling at Death.
Death returned the smile and squeezed the hand of Life.
"They are beautiful. All four. How many years have you given them? â
The hand of Life let go the hand of Death and crouched instead. He touched with his fingers the fur of one of the four dog puppies, who pressed against the belly of her mother. They had orange fur. Almost red. That pleased death. Life had created a beautiful dogs body for an equally beautiful soul. He mastered such a breathtaking art!
âOh, different. But I always wanted to give them a long life. Youâd rather like your presents older. â
Life smiled as he knelt down next to Death and kissed him on the temple. At the same time, Life saw the look of Death and then grinned, as he reached out to caress the puppyâs rough fur. He noticed the touch of death and pressed against the warm belly of his mother, as if that could protect him above all evil. As soon as life touched those as well, the little puppy calmed down again. Touched by Life and Death at the same time.
âOr do you want to have this puppy already? You can take it if you want. Then I let the next dogs mother have a puppy more.â
Smiling, Life spoke his words and looked at Death. He smiled and then leaned forward to kiss Life. No one understood Death as well as life. Life knew his wishes and needs and just wanted to make him happy. Something that Death returned in the same way.
âThank you. Yeah, I think I would like to take him with me now. I like this gift so much, I do not want anything to happen to it. â
Life nodded smiling and got up, and he took a few steps back so as not to disturb the process.
âThen take him, my love.â
Death smiled at Life again before glancing back at the puppy with a gentle smile. He pressed himself between his siblings to the belly of his mother, who looked around the room worriedly. She began to bark and whimper, sensing what her eyes could not see. She had nice fur. White, orange and light brown spotted. Death would leave her in the care of life for a while longer, so she could have more beautiful puppies for him.
Very gently, the hand of death slid into the body of the puppy and it slackened in that moment.
The dogs mother tore her head around and started to whimper aloud before she reached out her tongue and over the head of the motionless puppy. But the puppy was not there anymore. Very gently, death pulled the puppyâs soul out of its body. The little soul glowed in his hand as Kid got up.
He gently stroked the soul in his hand, whereupon she took her physical form again. The little puppy was in his hand, blinking at him. He understood what had happened. Everyone knew when death had taken him and accepted it. A soul had been created by Life to ultimately belong to Death altogether. Quietly, the puppy lay in the hand of death and closed his eyes, whereupon the death stroked gently with the other hand over his fur.
âIt always makes me so happy when you like my presents.â
With a happy smile, Life was crushed to Death, and Death answered smiling happily as well:
â I like them all!â
Life and Death were a loving couple.
They have always been, right from the beginning of time.
They had true names they did not know where they got them from. But since nobody knew them except them, they continued to use them.
Life was called Law, death was Kid.
Millennia ago, they had decided to shape themselves into human form, so people could trust them better. They had asked each other what they liked best and had thus strengthened their appearance. Death had told Life, that he liked the black-haired men best. Those with tanned skin and blue eyes. Life had created such a body. Grinning, death had wished for a small beard, smaller ears, shorter hair. Even a few black lines on the skin. Law had laughed and shaped as the death had wished.
Life also wanted a man. A man with very pale skin and longer, shiny red hair. He wanted golden eyes like no one could have and wished Death to be tales than he was. Still grinning, Kid had formed just as life wished.
They loved each other so much that Life could not exist without Death and Death without Life.
Life made many gifts to Death. Every day he distributed billions of souls, in many different forms. All as gifts for Kid. They sat together and radiant, Law showed Death what he had created. Small caterpillars, new plants, sweet babies, little kittens.
Death greatly pleased the gifts of life. He said for each one how beautiful that was and thanked life for it.
Death and Life had no plan. There was no plan. There was no limited number and no particular race that was allowed to live more than the others.
Life and Death decided after what they felt.
Only there was an annual limit to life. Life could give each being only a certain number of years, because there were not endless years that those had available. Life grabbed from a big pot of years and distributed them among the beings. And death threw the years back in, when he brought the souls to him.
So the years always remained in balance. The pot could never be empty, they both knew that.
Kid also gave Laws gifts.
Life distributed souls and made new bodies emerge as soon as the living beings gave it the prerequisite, but Death created the foundations of the souls.
Kid brought the souls to him, when he thought fit or when he had to, since their years had expired. The souls were free at death from the suffering of their bodies and he carried them into his kingdom. The kingdom of Death was endless. It was huge and beautiful. The desires which the souls still carried within themselves were fulfilled and they were allowed to experience bliss. They met their acquaintances again, their dead friends and family and existed there until they burned up. There were no years for the souls. The souls themselves decided when they burned up and then they were gone. They no longer exist, not even for life and death.
But that didnât matter. Because Death always created new souls. It was his magic. He created thoughts, ideas, qualities, desires, cravings, desires and ideas with his hands. He created the core of souls and then gave them to Life.
Life loved the cores that death created. He often looked at them for a long time, admired the work of death, thanked him, and then kissed him radiantly.
However, the cores that were created fresh didnât shine. Because they were not finished souls. It was Law who filled them with a blessing, giving them life and years, and bringing them down to the world where he created the gifts of death. The glow that Life gave to the cores transformed the cores into souls. Only that brought to light everything that Death had created, changed it, and made it perfect. This was the gift of Life.
Death and Life loved and needed each other.
They had learned how humans used to express their love for each other, and since they had taken the form of human beings, they had also decided to behave that way sometimes. They kissed each other, touched each other and had sex with each other. They had found that people were right! It was wonderful to love each other in those shapes! They were so close and so intimate to each other that they would never want to part.
They were often naked and uncovered when they were together, touching each other with laughter when they were alone. They had no shame and no restraint, for they had loved each other since the time. They were so familiar and happy with each other that they never wanted to part.
But sometimes they argued or didnât agree with each other.
For diseases, accidents or fatalities Life and Death couldnât do anything, even if people believed it. If Death wanted those souls, then he would bring them to his kingdom. He reached into peopleâs bodies and took their souls. At the same time, the hearts of their bodies have always stood still, if their bodies werenât sometimes connected to such strange machines. Then only the brain died, because the heart was forced to strike on, even if the soul was already dead.
When a person had a disease or an accident and it was not clear whether that body was going to live or die, Law and Kid sometimes disagreed. Life liked it when death took its presents, but sometimes he was sure that death should wait to make the gift even more beautiful.
Sometimes Kid didnât want to wait any more, because he thought the gifts were perfect, and sometimes it happened, that they were both in one body at the same time. Death, if he wanted the soul and life, if he still wanted it to remain.
But one always gave in, then they got along. Because they knew that they didnât need quarrels.
Life and Death had no time. Days and years elapsed after an exact time, but Life and Death didnât know that. There was no comparison for the timelessness they existed in, but they both enjoyed it very much. Everything happened at the same time and yet ordered in a row. No mortal being would ever understand this.
With pleasure they also watched the years of the people with interest. Law was pleased with the successes of his gifts, and Kid was amazed at the diversity that their souls developed. They saw how things happened and now and then, they also intervened when they wanted it.
For example, they once saw a cyclist crossing the street while a car driver did not look at the road. He looked at a small device, called Smartphone by the humans, and drove so fast that Death meant that the driver would bring the cyclist to him.
Law asked Kid if he wanted that soul, but Kid shook his head. As a result, life slipped the elbow of another car driver, so that she came with the palm of the hand on the horn.
The fast car driver then looked up in alarm from the small equipment. More shocked when he saw the cyclist and then hit the brakes that the tires just squeaked. But nothing else happened. All souls in this place continued to live and Life and Death continued to watch their game.
Something they both could not understand was murder.
Neither Kid nor Law could understand where those thoughts and desires came from which only humans possessed. Animals kill only when they are desperate or threatened, but that was fine. That self-instinct was by the Death in every core, so that the gifts of life did not burn so quickly.
But people murdered differently. They kill each other for strange, stupid reasons, and neither Death nor Life understood this. They had often talked about it, Death had later asked those souls why they had done that, but the reason for their actions was never found in their souls. Their souls were always pure. Also in suicides and normal murderers.
At some point, Life and Death had realized that it was a mistake in the human body, not in the soul, and that they couldnât do anything about it right now, even if it saddened them.
Life promised Death that he would intervene. He would grab human genes, and in a few thousand years, when evolution had progressed, he would eradicate those mistakes in the body. That thought made Death smile. He wanted to be the only one who would decide when to get the gifts of Life. Nevertheless, he assured his sweetheart that he still thought his gifts were perfect and thanked him again radiant.
Kid put the puppyâs soul in his kingdom. He looked around in the realm of the dead and after the beginning of eternity for that soul, it began to leap through the ranks of other souls. His bliss consisted only in the freedom to move where he wanted to go. It was a beautiful soul! Kid looked happily after it and laughed softly as he looked at them. Such a wonderful gift!
Death again held the hand of Life.
âThank you for this beautiful gift.â
Smiling, Life kissed Death and told how much he had loved to do so.
They walked together through the endlessness of the realm of the dead and looked at all the walking souls. The many souls called them God. They thanked them for all that they had come back to.
Life and Death liked that name, because it was a name for them in common. A name for them both. The living people were already talking to them. They called it prayers to God. Kid and Law liked to listen, but only when Kid brought them did people seem to truly see and understand them.
After their walk, they sat on the verge of endlessness, gazing down at the gifts of Life as Kid created a new core in his fingers.
âDonât look, this one will be a surprise!â
Joyfully, he shouted his words. Law laughingly turned his face away, while Death created the core of the next soul.
âOh yes, Iâm happy!â
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