LiTTLE CHERiNE Book 03 - post073

I sat down opposite her. “Ladies, I suggest you all go home now. Thanks for coming.” Cherine with that wicked smile of hers curtsied to me and jumped, the others following her. Only Dommi remained.

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“How different. Last time I was here I enjoyed myself, enthralling your daughter with little tricks to make her happy. Now I am here and you sit there thinking of me as an enemy. You said you knew I have powers and wanted to make use of my powers. Did you really think that if I have such powers, I would let you use me?”

“My husband will be back any minute.”

“You mean he will leave all his friends at the club and return now? Don’t speak, let me tell you a few things.”

I repeated information I had picked from her mind earlier. Things about her childhood, how she met her husband. How she manoeuvred him into marrying her. Then I told her about her most terrible secret.

“Smaragda is not the daughter of your husband. She was the result of your affair with…”

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“Stop please. Please!!”

“Now you fear I would use my knowledge to hurt your child? I thought you had seen my weakness. I am incapable of hurting any child. To me every single child throughout the world is a sacred trust to all adults. A child dies of malnutrition on the other side of the world and it’s soul cries to me of betrayal. Do not fear, Smaragda will not find out from us. Neither will your husband.”

“What are you going to do to me then? You would not be here if you were not going to do something.”

“Why? If we were to leave now, what could you do, how could you be a threat to us? Would anyone believe you that we suddenly all appeared in this room?”

“You see us as a threat because you think we are like you.” Dommi spoke firmly, a glint of anger in her eyes.

I touched Dommi on her knee to calm her. “Do you remember the magic I did? Wasn’t it beautiful? That is how our powers are. I want to show you a little of what it is like to be as I am. As you can imagine, this all started with one person. It was not me. I met a lovely girl and she had a gift, she had empathy as her gift. While she grew up on her own, it was more like a curse to her. Once she had me to love her and was able to open up, showing me who she really was, it became a blessing. It also helped to open doors in my mind. One thing never changed, irrespective of how many joined us, of how many new gifts and powers were discovered; our first gifts, those of empathy for all life and love, they were the gifts that coloured all that we were or will become in the future.”

“Then you will not kill me?”

“Something worse - we are going to show you what love is really like.”

Suddenly she found her courage again. “You are crazy.”

“Thank you, you do not realise it, but you have just paid me the best compliment you could have.” Dommi giggled and that frightened her, she probably thought we are lunatics and are toying with her, intending to kill her.

“Listen to me and please try to understand. You are a hard but intelligent woman. Please use your brains. You analysed me earlier, saw that I have powers, but also weaknesses. I am here to show you all my weaknesses because I do not want you to be my enemy. I do not like having enemies.” Even as I talked I could hear how crazy I sounded to her. “I could do a lot without your co-operation, make you see a lot of wonderful things; what would be the point? If you do not relax and let me show you the things that really matter about me, you will not believe or else continue to think you are under threat. I do not want that.

I want to show you who and what I am, what it means to be as I am and then I want to leave you and never have to see you again. I will not hide the fact that I do not like you. As for your daughter, yes I made her fall. I was sick at the time and not in control of myself. Hurting a child though, that shocked me, forced me to find out what was wrong with me and helped cure me. Because of that fall, my need to repair the damage I caused, I sent my healing powers into her. When I do that, my healing powers do not just repair the damage I want them to fix, they heal many other things. A side result of what I did means that your daughter will age slowly and live longer - over one hundred and fifty years.”

I smiled at her. “Does that make me sound dangerous? All my gifts are those of love and life. I am human and can make mistakes, as I did when I hurt your daughter, but I think and hope you will consider my debt paid. One of our gifts is our ability to become any age, in appearance, that we want to. The girls you saw, you will wonder later, are they really children or are they adults? Does it matter?”

I stood up and walked over to the other side of the room and turned to her, my face showing my sadness.

“God how I wish I could find some kind of softness in you. I will make you a promise though. If your daughter grows up and still has any softness in her, is able to love and has not been made as hard as you, we will teach her, give her the gifts we have. That means she will then live for over seven hundred years and when she dies her soul will be safe and able to choose any kind of life it wants. If she has children, husband, loved ones, she will be able to keep them for almost all of eternity. I fear though that even she will not be able to help you. For some reason you decided money, luxuries and power are more important than love and that makes it impossible for you to join us. That will be her sorrow.”

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She looked at Dommi and saw her softness, her sorrow as I spoke and turned back to me.

“I don’t understand, what do you want from me?”

“I could have said compassion, understanding. I could have said I want you to fear me. It is neither. I want you to think of your daughter - your one weakness. I will show you my weakness knowing that your weakness will bind you into holding my secret close to your heart. Let me show you what is promised for your daughter. See the worlds that await her and treasure them as your greatest gift to her.”

“What do I have to do?”

“You saw the way I arrived, suddenly here without entering through the door? We jumped here straight from our home. What would it help if I took your hand and jumped from here to other parts of the world? That would be like magic and ultimately mean nothing. What though if I could show you that you have a soul, that it can live on after death and that this is what I offer for your daughter. Would you not sacrifice all for Smaragda to have that?”

“Yes.”

“For me to show you, it is necessary that you trust me, allow me to take you with me.” I stretched my hand to her, “Can you do that?”

“I’ll try.”

I could sense she was not won over, but her strong curiosity was surfacing, plus her strong mother instincts were demanding she finds out what it is I can offer her Smaragda. It did not really matter, experience has taught me a few tricks. I explained how it works and she put her head back and closed her eyes. I sat down and called to her.

It was not easy, she at first refused to listen to my calling, not believing in it. Slowly though she relaxed and let go. When she found herself in the void she was terrified, trying to escape back to her body. The sight of me only added to her fear. I spoke to her softly, soothing and calming her. I got her to look around her, let her see our Kaleidoscope World, those of the other Cherinians. I explained about them to her. I showed her the emerald spot and drew her with me there.

“You are on our World now. This is Josephine, she is living here for a while. I’m sorry about you being this emerald green colour, it happens to all of us. Try to understand something. Your daughter, it is not promised that she will live on a world such as this. What is promised is far more wonderful - she will be a world such as this, a part of it, but also able to live on it. She will be able to come here between her lives on Earth. This is the gift that comes from the first one - from Cherine.”

“How can she be this?”

“How can you be here? It takes more than one person for such a world to come into existence. We think it needs at least three. I am certain Smaragda will find at least two persons to love, her children if none other. Think, your child and her children and theirs, all through the generations will have eternal life. Do you now see my sorrow that you cannot share in this?”

“What will happen to me?”

“You were in the void before coming here. That is where you will go. Souls are an irritation to the void and it gets rid of them. Perhaps it will send you back to Earth or perhaps to another world, but the shock of it strips away all memory of who you were.”

Jo was looking at me as if she were tasting something she did not like. She knew that since I had brought this soul here she would be saved. I could not explain, but promised myself to return and show Jo what I am trying to achieve.

“Then I will be completely dead if I am not myself.”

“That has happened to all of us. This is not your first life nor is it mine. It is only that for those of us who are now able to conquer life with love, we are also able to conquer this kind of death and be who we are forever.”

I stretched out my hand to her and after hesitating she took it. I pulled her back to the void.

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*As you float, I will move around you. If you want to join me in movement do so. We call this dancing.*

As I did so I let a tendril of myself touch her and I passed on to her a few love motes. She pulled back violently. I pretended not to notice and spent more time just lazily drifting around her. When she had relaxed, expanding again I let a few motes join her again. This time she did not react as violently, but I heard her cry out.

*What you are sensing are motes from my soul, the part of me that is made up of love. Do you like the taste of love?*

She hesitated, but finally answered softly *Yes.*

After a while I drew her attention to the crowd of green stars and told her about the Sparklers. I let her taste my sorrow when I told her of how I killed so many of them, explained their mission and what they were waiting for now. I called and a number of Sparklers came to us, dancing around us and she could now plainly see them as creatures, incandescent souls, not just stars.

I then told her about the Anadir Worlds, of their history and how they have now found refuge here, no longer prey, but friends and allies of the Sparklers. I decided it was enough and showed her how to return to her body.

“Was it all real?”

Dommi answered. “You saw the soul of Robert. Wasn’t it magnificent?”

“But also all those other things!”

“You mean the Sparklers and the Anadir Worlds? Did Roberto show you our World?”

“I took her there.” Dommi looked at me, aware what that meant.

“Did you meet Jo?”

“God! Then it was all true?”

“Everything, including the love I sent you.” I let Dommi see how she had reacted.

“You gave her love!! Did you give any back to him?”

“No.”

“It is alright Dommi, I did not expect any. I am not poorer for having given, you know that. May I trouble you for a cup of coffee?”

Dommi went with her to the kitchen and I sat back closing my eyes trying to draw the energy I would still need. Coffee with biscuits arrived, a bottle of honey on the tray. I smiled at Dommi my gratitude. She looked worried, but did not speak.

“I have one more trip to take you on. This one you will enjoy.”

“Where?”

“It is a world of magic, so beautiful it will break your heart. I’m sorry, I could not help teasing. You really will enjoy this one. The void was scary, but not this one, this one is just pure joy.”

I only gave a sketchy explanation and she thought of it as being something like our World and familiarity made it less frightening. She was curious too, how could this one not exist in the void?

I called and drew her to me as I took her to the world of Meli.

“This is the first time I have done this. I hope it does not offend you.”

“What?”

“I chose your body for you. I want you to see this through the eyes of a child. Their senses are still more alive to everything. There are no thorns and the ground is gentle, you will not need shoes here. Come with me.” I offered my hand and she took it.

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I hope you enjoy reading this story of fantasy, adventure and love - and should some of it be true for our reality, I hope you will love our Cherine.

Αλέξανδρος Ζήνον Ευσταθίου

(Alexander Zenon Eustace)
^{2nd October, 2019}

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