LiTTLE CHERiNE Book 03 - post075

“Again!? You must be kidding!”
“Me! Kid you!” I tickled her and, well, one thing led to another and she decided I was not kidding.

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Chapter One Hundred Six

I decided not to overdo my hamming it up and called her the next day.

She instantly said, “You should have explained to me that we had to leave.”

“Anna, please do not feel guilty, I took a calculated risk. I needed you to see everything as I was afraid you might refuse to go with me again to see the rest of it.”

She gave a low chuckle. “Refuse, I would have begged!” I shook my fist in a gesture of satisfaction. “There is a lot I need to understand, for Smaragda’s sake of course. Would you be well enough to meet me?”

“I have something very important to do tomorrow and will need to be strong enough so that I do it correctly...” I waited, letting her disappointment grow as she steeled herself to wait. “I could make it tonight, any particular time suitable to you?”

“You would be well enough?”

“I better not jump or do what we did yesterday. Anna, I hesitate to suggest it…would you be able to come here? I think it might be good as you could ask the girls questions that I’m certain you have.”

“I cannot leave Smaragda, I would have to bring her with.”

“The girls will keep her occupied so that would not be a problem.”

“Could I ask a favour?”

“You would like to meet Meli?”

She laughed, “I am that transparent?”

“You spent some heavenly hours within her mind, it is only natural. She will be pleased to meet you.”

“My loves, don’t overdo it. Just a little concern, nothing direct. Just that someone is always watching me, just hint at your concern. It will be far more effective than if you do it blatantly.”

Sam giggled, “I haven’t seen you so alive for a long time Robbie, you are really enjoying yourself.”

“Tell me when to stop Sam.” The healer drained me, my face becoming wan and pinched. Sam gestured and I told it to stop.

As Smaragda and Anna walked in they caught me folding a small blanket and hiding it by the couch. I got up with a smile.

Smaragda was concerned, “You are sick Kyrie Roberto?”

“Have you ever been told to stop eating sweets or cakes and not listened and then got sick? That is what happened to me. I was enjoying myself yesterday and overdid it. Teach me a lesson eh?”

“Why don’t you make it better with magic?”

“If I do too much magic that also makes me sick. Smaragda, I love it when your sweet face is full of concern, but I promise, no need to worry. Why don’t you and your friends go off by yourselves and have fun. I’m certain the conversation will get quite boring here - it usually does when adults get going.”

“My daddy showed me some pictures you made. They were pretty.” I looked at Anna.

“He got them from the internet and printed them out for us to see. It was from the Kaleidoscope series.”

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“Ahh! They must have been a disappointment after…”

“You fishing for a compliment?”

The girls took Smaragda away while Dommi stayed by me. Sam brought us coffee and my hand trembled as I picked up the cup. I put it down.

“Dommi, I need a cigarette. Can the girls warm it for us?” She knew it was being heated by me, but pretended to give the order. I stood up.

“I’m sorry to trouble you, but I make a point of not smoking in here. Not with so many kids around.”

“It is freezing cold outside, I better get my overcoat.”

“You will not need it.” Dommi carried my cup as it was obvious I would spill most of my coffee.

She stepped out, saw the garden was open and at the same time felt how warm it was.

“Your magic?”

“The girls. I am trying to build myself up so I’m not going to use my powers.”

“They all have the same powers?”

“Every single Cherinian.”

“Every what?”

So I explained.

“Anna, I am guessing and I may probably wrong, but I have a feeling that you are thinking, if Smaragda will have these powers, she can do for you all you want without the bother of having to deal with me. If Smaragda uses her gifts for personal gain, the link to her will be cut and she will lose all her powers. I know I become boring, but I have to repeat myself; our gifts have to be used with love and empathy.”

“What is this link?”

I was not about to let her know that all of us depend on Cherine, it could make Cherine a target.

“There are two kinds of links. First there is the general one, it connects us all, empowering our minds so that doors are opened and we acquire powers that we call gifts. The second type of link happens when two or more people love each other and a link is formed. That is how Cherinian families are formed.”

“You and all the girls, you share this second link?”

“We do.”

“What about Smaragda? Who would she link to? You planning to make her one of your girls?”

I had to laugh and that made me cough. Four of the girls rushed to the glass door and looked out at me anxiously. Soon as I recovered they left.

“You do not think I have enough? I did tell you Anna, that your daughter will only become a Cherinian when she is older.”

“What happens if something happens to her before then?”

“If you want her to be safe we would have to take her to the void. Once our World knows her, if she should die, it will take in her soul before the void can affect it. Let me tell you of an incident that happened to us.”

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I told her about my dream, how I ended up in another world. I told her about my despair when I returned and found out all my girls had died. As I told the story I projected it to her also, making it too real for her to bear coolly or remain detached. She listened with awe when I told her of how I fought against our World and found a way to bring them back. I sensed she recalled hearing or reading about it at that time.

“All of those who were part of us then, they are not in their original bodies. Those bodies were buried.” Tears were streaming as I re-lived those days, my heart still aching. Dommi pulled me to her, soothing me.

“You were one of them?”

“Yes I was.”

I explained. “We have created secret banks of our tissues in many countries. We would take a sample of your daughter and you would no longer need to fear death or any terrible mutilation. It takes us minutes to create her a new body from her own cells.”

Her temper got the better of her. “You bastard, you have been playing with me. You knew that no mother could refuse her child such an opportunity. I can understand you taking me to the void, it may have been necessary to teach me of what lay in store for my daughter. Why did you also take me to Meli’s world? Was that your revenge for my threatening you?”

I called my protector to me, gathered my energies and began to glow. Dommi pulled away, my power beating at her and Anna, threatening to short-circuit their nervous systems. She cowered in fear. I turned the energies to those of infinite gentleness and love. Her eyes widened and filled with tears.

“I looked for the child in you Anna. I wanted to reach under that cold hardness and let the child see what we offer. Can you set free that child and reach out to me Anna? Can you become the kind of person who could be a Cherinian?”

She wept, hardly daring to believe, her body trembling from her emotions. “You would invite me?”

“You have been taken to our World.”

She stared at me blankly, unable to think.

“Our World knows you Anna. The gift has been made. Will you wait till your next life to become a Cherinian, or would you join us now?”

“Now. Please.”

“Then make of yourself a Cherinian.” I let the powers flow back into me and sank back onto the chair. I sat forward with my elbows resting on the table, my face hidden within my hands, giving her time to regain her composure.

“Dommi, we have to take Smaragda to the void, we dare not let her leave our house without the protection I promised. How do we do it? Could it be a game the girls play with her? Make her think it is just a game of magic.”

“Oh my Roberto, you cannot protect her from knowledge. She will return from there knowing it was real. What about afterwards?”

I sat up. “Anna, do you know of what Dommi speaks? After I left you last night, apart from the joy and awe of what you had seen, were you affected in another way? Did you feel your body wanting to float away? Did you feel a need?”

“Ach men! You are all the same. Anna, did you need sex?”

“I thought it was from the excitement of what I had experienced. You…you mean Smaragda will feel the same way? But she is just a child!!”

Dommi told her, “A week old baby would feel the same way. Age has nothing to do with it. You are a mother, you did not notice your child, even as a three year old rubbed herself, was interested in things to do with sex? The least your daughter will need is to be held and caressed, but if she starts to have more erotic needs, would you act shocked or face the needs of your child?”

“I could not do that to her!!”

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“Then let her stay with the girls tonight. They will help her through this night with honesty. Anna, Roberto spoke to you. He told you, make of yourself a Cherinian. Did you think that it is easy? The base of our gifts comes from empathy. Think what empathy really means, the English word, not the Greek, do not use it just like another word that your mind vaguely knows the meaning of.

If you have empathy you will feel the burning throughout the body of your child. An ache that she will not know how to handle. She will feel at times as if she is about to return to the void and lose herself there. Your daughter will be suffering and if you do not have empathy you will be condemning her to suffer, not because of it being bad for her, but because of your inhibitions and embarrassment.”

Gently I intervened. “Anna, when we danced last night I made you an offering twice. You withdrew in shock. What I sent you was love. Could you accept love from your daughter, could you give her love? Would you like to see the beauty of her soul and dance with it?”

“You would take me with?”

“I have to break through that hard shell you protect yourself with. Perhaps seeing your daughter, feeling her kisses of love in the void would help melt your heart?”

“I’ll try. I don’t know how to do it Roberto.”

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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)

^{7th October, 2019}

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