To Gentle Down This World

Sonorous. Portentous. Reverberating. (illustrated adult version of the author's science fiction saga) "What do the angels do with all the souls that have just been released from an entirely obliterated planet?" I ask Her. “What happens…” I start to ask again (by this time we'd picked up another baby and two stray twins) "to the souls that have left the planet?” “They will begin again,” She finally answers. “Most souls have the ability to remember their past if they choose.” As She says this, She starts to glow. She said the twins are the souls of the children I would have had if I had stayed on Earth. She said the two littlest babies were the souls of the brother and sister I had had on Earth. She said these four souls were babies because they were more afraid than I was. Her final words to me were, “Face your fears. Love them until they leave, then send them to the Light.” And then I am sitting on the warmed surface of another planet with four babies in my lap. I see trees with yellow leaves and two orbs in the sky. There is no one around except maybe a cat because I can see its tail, a big bushy fluffy tail, under a bush with purple flowers. I see a galaxy in the sky with spirals that look familiar, but it is much further away. I sense the tiny, blue planet in all its glory that used to reside there but there is a sadness about it that I am trying to remember but can't… quite…