Chronicle of Guardian Daniel Trace #3
Torture. Murder. Cause insanity. These are the things the malefic fox they call Da Ji can do. It's a sad world, but I have seen few who have lost their way as much as her.
8 is a number, and as the rain god would say, it represents many things. Infinity, self-destruction, totality, cosmic order, multiplicity, even the earth itself. Specifically, it represents several things relevant to our tale. In Egypt, 8 was the number of arms on a solar disc. The sun. In Japan, multiplicity, or many. It also means, in Japan, the heads of the serpent Yamata no Orochi, a devil-like being.
To put my vision into words, the sun will be of many selves and one will serve the eight. The way will be found and the stories of seventeen will begin. Stories which have until now only just begun to unfold, the stories of the return of heroes. A prophet and a ghost, a devil and an angel, wolves and birds, gods and mortals, musicians and reapers, redemption and moonlight.
And of course, a writer and his three books. The eye of providence, they say, is reserved for the special ones. They said, a new world order, or that's what people thought they said. They were wrong. For so very long, the Eye has been seen in society, waiting. Waiting for the one world that could create the right kind of person at the right time in the right place. And it's finally happening. The last true hero was King Arthur, and before him, it was a steady decline since heroes of myth. Their names were known - Beowulf, Mulan, even Sun Tzu was a hero in a way. But they were but legends in the eyes of the masses far too quickly.
Funny, then, that the heroes which will begin their battle in Gravity Falls, Oregon, are to never be known.