Chapter Fifty Four
Celeste decided that I might be able to control my spirit light more effectively if I learned how to channel it through dance rituals. She asked Willow to teach me instead of doing it herself. Her decision made me believe that Willow was correct in her assessment. Rave must not want his wife to perform channel dances.
Starting with the basics, Willow would stream her spiritual aura to me as she danced to the music. The object was to imitate her dance steps and use the rising power to gently return her essence. Her essence looked like a purple ball floating above her head. The first time we played our game of toss the spiritual essence, I accidently knocked her over on my return. She laughed it off, but cautioned me to focus on lofting her aura back to her instead of pitching it like a baseball.
I was nervous about attempting it again. Her essence must have sensed my anxiety because it stubbornly refused her direction to stream to me.
“Ember, are you doing that?” Willow asked as I watched her light purple aura fade back inside her body.
“I’m sorry, but I’m just too scared. What if I can only fast pitch? You could get hurt…” I replied.
“You can loft it gently – I promise. You have an unbelievable amount of channeling power and it needs to be released in a controlled environment. If you’d been using your powers throughout your life…no wait, I can’t say that. I have no idea how powerful you’d be if you’d been using all your skills throughout your life. I do know you’re capable of controlling all of them. If you weren’t, you’d be long since dead and we wouldn’t be standing here talking…”
“I’m really worried about your safety. I thought I tossed it back gently, but it rocketed back with this crazy burst of energy. It knocked you off your feet. You’re so small that it could’ve killed you! I need to practice this Ay’sha dancing stuff on something that I don’t have the potential to bruise or make bleed, for heaven sakes…”
“You can’t allow fear to command you or it commands the channel. All strong emotions can make the spiritual stream vault outta your control. It’s hard to pull it back, withdraw it or stop it when that happens,” Willow explained.
“Then, we need to delay these channel dance lessons to another day or maybe never because I’m frightened…”
I wasn’t about to risk hurting her trying to learn Ay’sha dances. Refusing to continue, I crossed my arms and started shivering.
“Wait, let’s try something else. Florida…” Willow shouted for my brother
He walked around the corner of the garage – grimy, but handsome. Are you paying attention oh teacher of mine…
“Hey, what’s up?” Tray responded.
“Help us out for a minute, please?” she asked him.
“Sure – whatcha need?”
“I need you to go stand behind Ember…”
Tray did as she asked. Then, Willow positioned me so my arms were stretched up toward the sky and asked my brother to put his arms underneath mine. It looked like Tray was going to help me catch a giant ball.
“Now, when I turn the music back on, Ember you will move and Tray you will feel the essence channel through her. I don’t know what it’ll feel like, but you will feel it…” Willow instructed.
“You’re not planning on frying us are you, Carolina? Burnt is not a good look for any of us…” he joked.
How true, how true… the fire gently flames inside me…
“Don’t tempt me, Florida! Ssoooo….Tray I need you to help her by moving in unison with her. That means your arms need to remain underneath hers. I’m gonna loft my aura through the dance again and Ember, you and Tray will return it gently. We’re gonna do it a few times. I need you to only focus on the toss, so close your eyes. Your vision seems to distract you, so just feel the rhythm of the song and move. Your brother’s gonna help with the toss, so don’t be scared…” she instructed.
Then, she turned the music back on and I closed my eyes. I wasn’t afraid as long as Tray was standing behind me. I knew if things fell to pieces he would toss me over his shoulder and run like a maniac. There’s no way he would ever let me destroy Willow.
I lifted my spirit light while I danced, but I contained it inside myself. I could feel Tray moving in perfect rhythm behind me. His spirit flowed through me somehow and I felt like I was floating. It was so surreal. Together, Tray and I caught the first aura ball from Willow. I desperately wanted to open my eyes so I could witness what was occurring. Tray must have somehow sensed what I was preparing to do because he said, “Don’t open your eyes Little Girl – you need to trust me…”
Continuing to keep my eyes closed, I lifted her essence into the air and tossed it back to her. It must have been okay because Tray whispered “beautiful landing…”
I felt Willow’s essence as she tossed it back to me. It floated down into my arms gently – like the world’s biggest beach ball. Tray lifted my outstretched arms and the ball went sailing up into the air again. We continue to toss the cosmic beach ball back and forth with Willow. It felt like Tray was mirroring my every move although I had no idea how he was doing it. It was as if we were conjoined spirits instead of two different people.
“Keep your eyes closed, Ember and feel the rhythm as it flows through you. Tray slowly back away, but stay within her reach…” Willow guided him.
She must have realized I would open my eyes if he went too far away. Even though I felt like I had it under control, I didn’t trust myself. I felt my brother’s spirit retreat from my soul, but I could still sense it nearby.
“Now, feel the power of the dance and use it to draw on your spirit light…” Willow instructed and I obeyed.
I moved in time with the music as I streamed my spirit light. I willed it to form into a beach ball like Willow’s essence. My spirit light obeyed my direction because I could feel it bouncing lightly in my outstretched arms. It was waiting for my command.
“Give the light to the sky…” Willow requested.
I lofted my spirit light skyward and waited breathlessly for its return. It landed softly in my arms. Tossing it two more times, I was finally beginning to feel comfortable with the energy. I relaxed my eyelids, but kept them shut so I wouldn’t get distracted. Willow asked Tray to take a few more steps back, so I could move more freely.
Although I could sense his reserve, his essence retreated further away from mine. Once I knew my brother was a safe distance away from me, I shredded the beach ball in my mind and commanded the light to fan out in a big ribbon. I reached out and grabbed the end of it. The music responded as I spun the spiritual essence ribbon around my body by gradually increasing its volume. The song was playing at an unearthly level by my third spin.
The ribbon of light diffused the music as it tried to pass through the spaces in between. I felt my spirit light expand and contract as I willed it. Then, the song changed on the stereo and the light changed with the tempo. It followed the beat of the music. I increased the velocity of my dance to match the new song.
My spirit light wove its way around my body. It felt like a dress made out of fine mist. The music seemed to wrap around the inside of the light somehow. My inner fire responded to their powerful union by releasing its energy into my ribbon of light. I didn’t even have to look to know that the silver mist was shimmering through the ribbon.
The silver mist is a part of me…
I lifted my arms and outstretched them toward heaven. I wanted to give the combined essences back to the Creator of all things. I didn’t feel worthy to embrace the light and the silver mist. The blended essences swirled into a spiraling tornado. I was standing inside the epicenter of their power. They spun around me in a frenzied celestial storm. Waves of pure euphoria began to ripple upward…
The joining of the light and the mist – ordained – a reverent union of powers…
I felt weightless as I embraced their combined energy.
Although
I had no idea that gravity had released its hold on me, it returned to me with a vengeance. I came crashing down to earth. I opened my eyes instantly in shock. I watched in amazement as my spirit light and the silver mist spilled back inside my chest to find their resting places. My internal fire flamed into a wicked hot blaze before it settled back down.
Willow had her mouth covered because she was stunned by what she had just witnessed. She looked like a marble statue of beautiful Elvin artwork. Tray fell backwards onto the dead, wintery grass and exhaled loudly.
I somehow managed to sit up, but I had no idea what to say. The silver mist was a part of me and I was overwhelmed by emotion. I thought it had been taken from me in November – I had been wrong…
“Wow, I think you need to practice your dance skills for more than just an hour each day like we planned…” Willow finally spoke – her words were suspended in time.
“I know you need to practice them for more than an hour a day, but you are not allowed to practice the dance without me by your side. I don’t have a trampoline handy anywhere around here and I haven’t sprouted wings yet. Oh my Creator please help me, I sure hope I don’t end up needing them…” Tray announced and covered his face with his hands in exasperation.
Willow later revealed what happened. They had both witnessed my spirit light blend into the silver mist as I danced. As they spun together into a tornado, the sky appeared to open up. When I reached up toward the heavens a radiant light streaked down from the sky. The celestial storm of their union turned into a tunnel. She said it looked like the Creator sent a tornado to deliver me back to him because I started to ascend toward heaven inside the unreal storm.
By the time Tray could move again, he had to jump straight up in the air, lock onto my ankles and use all his strength in order to force me back down to earth. They were both terrified that I was being called away forever by the ethereal light. I had bruises around each ankle that provided evidence – I was truly floating away…
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