In the beginning

The God of Time Before this world existed, there was another.As the first Earth stood on the edge of destruction, one being watched from beyond time itself. Aethern, the God of Time, had seen everything, the rise of stars, the fall of worlds, and the passing of countless lives. Nothing surprised him. Nothing moved him.Until he saw her.Elena was only sixteen, a human girl living an ordinary life on a dying world. Yet something about her changed everything. In a universe he had watched for millions of years, she was the first thing that made him feel.So he did the unthinkable. After a brief, stolen courtship and a small wedding surrounded by her family, Aethern took Elena from the world she had always known. He carried her beyond the skies to live among the clouds, safe from the end that was coming.Then the first Earth died.And a new one began.Together, they built a life above the world below, one untouched by time. Elena gave him twelve children, six sons and six daughters, each born with a purpose to watch over and protect the new Earth. They became its silent guardians, unseen but ever present. But Elena was still human.She aged. She changed. And after living a full life, she reached the end of it.At one hundred years old, she took her final breath, and it was her own daughter, Elyra, who guided her into the next life.For the first time since the beginning of time, Aethern was alone. Centuries pass, but even an immortal cannot outrun loss. Now, the God of Time is ready to make one final choice. As he prepares to leave the living world and join the woman he has loved for lifetimes, his power must pass on, and his children must continue their watch over humanity.Because time will never stop.But even time cannot compete with love.