The Stories Within The is like The Chronicles of Narnia, but all grown up. There are no talking animals, the events that take place are here in our world, and the battle to be fought and won is within and therefore it cannot be won with any sort of violence, offensive or defensive. What makes this story like The Chronicles of Narnia is the magical realism that gives a nod toward many religions and Christianity. This element is planted into the story of a woman named Auri Sa Tupi of House Tek Khan Ankh Ten, or Resa who possesses certain gifts that are not for her to wield like a superhero. These gifts are for her to use only for her own protection, and this parameter acts as speculative templet, for readers to discover the main premise within this work; that heroes, love, and magic, are only real, true, and good, through God. 

Resa’s journey begins in Cleopatra’s court as she debuts as a fierce and vivacious dancer who delivers a performance that threatens Cleopatra’s reputation of female superiority. As a way to maintain the queen’s authority in public, Resa’s is ordered to live a chaste life under the penalty of death. The evidence that will convict her of disobedience is if she gives a lover her God-given name. She is ordered to repeat “I have no name.” This symbolic act of deference unleashes a series of events, that include Resa’s exile, the death of a child, a sexual assault and facing her death. All these events culminate into the right proponents for her to become a “Watcher.” This is a term that can be found in the Old Testament, in the book of Daniel, Enoch and Quran that loosely describes Watchers as angels, “every soul has a watcher,” but Resa is not an ethereal or angelic being. 

Rather Resa is the unsung, nameless, advocate who lives alongside the various societies she encounters. Her day is spent sharing their daily hardships while striving to emulate the living example of love that is our Lord, Jesus Christ. Her attempts to abide by The Living Word, while trying to cope with her trauma, and understand her role as a Watcher, are labored with many trials and errors as she travels the world by foot, learning how to trust in the Holy Spirit as her only guide. She is not always successful, but both her successes and epic failures will leave behind a legacy of inherent wealth that affirms life is worth living and that affirmation is the “faith working through love” (Gal 5:6) that will building spiritual treasures in heaven. 

Through her many journeys she continues to face higher levels of God’s power and mystery, that because of her God-given gifts she no longer has the solace of faith. She knows the source of her gifts is only God, and those gifts are a constant and pernicious reminder that God absolutely exists. At times that knowledge is a comfort but other times, the absolute knowledge can be so terrifying there is no more room for doubt. She suffers a type of religious paranoia, aware of the repercussions of every word she thinks, hears and says and the only solace she relies on is the living example of love in Jesus Christ. 

As the eons pass, she realizes one of her many gifts is an extended life which adds another higher level of understanding of God’s timelessness, but to her, time is a burden and her few successes lead her to believe she is impervious and she is led into temptation. She is filled with entitlement, and she uses her gifts to fulfill her desire, believing she deserves more than she has been given, and when her desires are not met, she suffers a fit of rage and inflicts her brand of justice. She sins’ most egregiously. After the deed is done, deep regret causes her to devote her life to atone for her sins by serving children in modern war-torn countries. After witnessing great atrocities, she begins to experience futility. She prays to give her life to her service and to have her Lord call her name, but her prayer is answered a higher dose of God’s great love and power which astounds and astonishes her enough to valiantly pursue her goal of giving her life to her service through Jesus Christ.