There were places in the above and below where souls weren't as they were meant to be. Reverberations of what had been but for some reason not known, they had dissipated in to inconsistent particles. They were congregated to a place of between the realms of passing where they were reinstated into one. Many pieces made the collection of singular.
A rebirth of separation, that which was collected into a shell of purest mortal coils. In moments that ebbed away on thoughts and maturity something was noticed upon the eyes of those classed as the shepherds, They were of flesh and bone but a vessel of angels essence, no beat was felt but life of our own non understanding reverberated in these vessels.
So long had these chosen gathered the pieces that were rebirthed. a freshness not tainted by either as in the fire the dead the soulless shards were consumed in the eternity furnaces. Some gathered in moments, others lingered in their, as if like ash in a breeze they were inadvertently kept asunder.
Like a leaf they eventually descended and lingered amongst others that had scorched for longer than even those now gravitating towards its centre of rebirthed oblivion. They never thought for a moment that what had been a metaphysical collection of particles was anything but echoes of voices incoherent and desolate.
But now as what has happened only a few times in eternity is spilling like water from a broken vessel. So many have spoken in the dead language of even angels understandings but the fragmenting scribbles that vacate their minds saturate in a repeating rhythm.
"We burnt with our eyes wide open,
So many voices expelled in a pool of white, transparent vestiges lingered beneath but no ripples were ever realized till they had gazed beneath and where censorship was consummated overhead so the lingering wailing below was all consuming so much affliction was bestowed on these now seeded souls.
They were never broken remnants of whispered echoes but were indeed a embryo of a matching of heaven and hell a new partnering that was misread as feathers lingering in the winds of eternity. But where a new higher purpose was meant to have been birthed so now do they burn not for but a flickering moment but an inaudible amount of time.
Speech of what was singular now birthed into a perplexed culmination of uncooperative wailing incensing each others needing's. That was for those at least the yearning to not be entwined in the illuminated combustion of self. But they were imprisoned, fashioned into a vessel of multitudes not meant to be, but only a singular existence was meant to cinder into form.
They wallowed in surreal thoughts, memories of a life that was a broken picture frame and the faces were etched out so not even they knew who or when they were from. but the shepherds were there salvation or so it was thought. They simultaneously gathered those that were swallowed in a realm of an uneasy reality. Then they chanted, for hours they spoke the words, Our wordings will set you singular again.
But what befell those that guided shepherds was unexpected. They screamed in either ecstasy or writhing pain, but then as If a curtain fell. Then all that was mortal shed into oblivions grasp and it consumed them the shepherds were engulfed in shards of personality till they themselves were twisted in visions.
Their eyes wept one like onyx bleeding frosted tears of all that was pure, the other like snow but as the raven tears cut upon there features and blood teared on the floor they grappled with what had befallen them for these acolytes that for this instance that joined in ceremony now had not fallen or ascended But were the rebirth of neither but vessels of everything.
Those of fractured echoes, those entwined with the crematorium of broken vessels now ascend and descend to the places which greeted these seeds with such distain. After a time all went still, silent, within each realm and they just sat their. Each hand greeted the flame or light and within their grasp a new spirit was born not burnt but eased over time and like a seed they grew once more.