“What do you see?” the old soul asked as they flew over the land.
“I see the ground, the trees, and farther off I see buildings.” she replied, not understanding what she was looking for.
“But do you see? Do you see what is wrong?” she implored DraDonna. “See!” Tatiana commanded. They began to move through the sky again.
DraDonna watched the scene change and shift below her little by little; never much. It was if they were flying in circles. They were coming up on the same mountain range and lake for the third time.
“Do you see?” Tatiana asked again. “Do you see what is wrong?”
“I see the same trees and mountains everywhere.” DraDonna answered, a little confused.
“Yes! It is all the same everywhere.” Tatiana stopped their flight for a moment. “It should not be that way. The answer to why it is like this is in the ground, everywhere down in the ground.”
DraDonna was beginning to feel a little frustrated by hearing this same cryptic answer again.
“I know this, Tatiana. I have DraDevon making a core drill so we can study the soil far down in the ground.”
Without saying anything more, Tatiana tugged on DraDonna’s hand and they began to move again. “Yes,” Tatiana said. “Drill in the ground. It is in the ground.”
“You keep saying that, Tatiana, but I don’t really understand. What is in the ground? Please explain it to me. I want to help you, but I just don’t understand what I’m looking for.”
“Donna, I don’t have the strength to answer a lot of questions. There are a lot of things you need to see and not much time.”
As they flew past the Ambassadors community, DraDonna looked down and saw smoke rising up out of the shop next her home and smiled. She knew that her beloved husband was in there safe and working on the core drill.
A thought occurred to DraDonna. “If what I need to find is in the ground, then is the core drill what we need to use to get down to where it is?”
“It will be sufficient,” Tatiana replied shortly. “Look, see.”
DraDonna shifted her gaze from her friend’s transparent face to the changing landscape.
“Where are we going?” DraDonna asked, feeling a little apprehensive about how far they were going. No one had ever gone this far out before, away from the communities. She didn’t even know what was out here.
“Not far now, Donna—watch and see.”
DraDonna began to see something—a fantastic sight. She saw many fields of crops as far as her eyes could see. She tried to recognize the plants, but she couldn’t. There were so many fields and so many different crops.
DraDonna felt like they had been flying for an eternity and that she would not be there in the cabin when DraDevon arrived.
As if Tatiana could read her mind, she told her young friend, “Don’t worry little Donna. You will be back in time to fulfill your destiny.”
DraDonna was about to ask Tatiana how she knew when Tatiana told her to look again.
This time DraDonna saw something fantastic, something she remembered from the first dream, but this time it was different; she was not just being shown an image. This time she was seeing, up close, fields of large beasts. Some of them were spotted black and white. Some were just black. Others had what looked like pointed branches growing out of the tops of their heads. There were so many that she could not possibly count them all. There were many different kinds of beasts of different shapes and sizes; there were also many flocks of some bird-like creatures that ran and fluttered across the ground.
Overwhelmed by all she had seen, DraDonna was speechless at first.
Tatiana sensed this and asked, “Did you see them Donna, do you understand?” she asked. “There is no one else in all the communities that has seen this.”
“I see them Tatiana, but I don’t understand. Where did all these creatures come from? Why are they all here?”
“They have always been here, Donna. The animals and the crops provide a lot of food and other things that the communities need. There are many more crops and fields of animals than I have shown you.”
“All this has been always been here and no one knows about it?” DraDonna asked incredulously. “It’s hard for me to believe that no one has ever stumbled upon these fields of plants and the beasts. Does the Ambassador know?”
“The HEART knows it’s all here, and the Ambassadors are told about this but never shown. The few unlucky souls that have accidently stumbled upon all this have been mind wiped with the negative energy.”
“Why did you show me all of this? Please explain it to me,” DraDonna begged her desperately. “I don’t understand and if you don’t explain it to me, who will?”
“The HEART will,” Tatiana stated simply. Without so much as another word, she faced DraDonna. Leaning forward, she placed a warm soft kiss of energy her on the forehead. Tatiana then shoved her with all the force that her soul could muster.
DraDonna had the breathtaking feeling of being pulled backward; she could see colors and lights blazing past her.
Then with a gasp she felt her soul resettle in her body.
DraDonna felt a pounding in her head. After a moment she realized that the sound was at the front door and not in her head. She got out of bed on shaky legs and stepped carefully, trying not to make any sound.
The pounding became more urgent, and DraDonna heard the sound of desperate male voice begging her to answer the door. She exhaled a sigh of relief as she shoved the table out of the way to let her husband in.
Lies
17
JorMelony was getting tired. She had been walking around the community all day looking for her husband, and now it was after nightfall and she still had not found him. There was just one house she had left to check, and though she really didn’t think he would be there, she decided to go anyway.
“Why would he be at DraDonna’s?” she said aloud as she opened the door to her sister’s house.
When she opened the door, she knew that she was going to find a room that had been tousled up, but she gasped in shock at the scene before her. It wasn’t just the fact that the room was even more torn up than before. It was that her husband was lying unconscious in a rapidly growing pool of blood.
“JorRobert!” she screamed, running across the room. “What happened? JorRobert, wake up! Wake up,” she sobbed, rolling him over. She opened his shirt and saw six deep wounds in a circle on his chest. They were gushing blood.
“What is… how?” she stammered, tears of desperation running down her face.
JorMelony was terrified at the sight of her husband bleeding to death before her eyes, but she still had enough presence of mind to know he needed the healing that only the HEART’s energy could give him. She tried to wake him but was unsuccessful.
With great effort, she managed to pull him the last little distance to the HEART stone altar. Lifting his right hand, she pulled the bag’s strap out of it and then placed his hand on the HEART stone, quoting the prayer for healing through her tears.
JorMelony, feeling petrified that she may have been too late, waited anxiously for the HEART to heal her husband. Her fear slowly ebbed as she saw the blue energy pulsate on the HEART stone, surging through JorRobert’s hand, then down into his damaged body.
She watched her husband’s injuries breathlessly as the blue light of the energy circulated in and out of him, swirling around his broken body in a dazzling display of blue sparks. She saw the deep wounds stop bleeding and begin to close up. She watched dark bruises change until they dissipated and were gone. There was an odd looking burn on his neck that went from a painful red to a light pink, and then disappeared altogether.
JorMelony was sure she heard the broken ribs crack back into place, and she was happy he was not awake because this all looked very painful.
JorRobert began to moan, taking deep breaths, and the energy withdrew.
JorMelony took his hand off the HEART stone altar, and then shook him. “JorR
obert, please wake up!” She was desperate.
He took another deep breath and weakly tried to sit up, but moaned and then fell back.
JorMelony sobbed hysterically, “Please tell me what happened!”
He rolled his head over on the floor in order to look at her and feebly said, “I feel dizzy.”
“You shouldn’t feel dizzy after a healing, JorRobert… you should feel great,” she said, still sobbing. “Please tell me what is going on.”
“I need some of the plant,” he told her weakly.
“What plant?” she asked, fearing that he was energy mad.
“In my bag. By the chair,” he said shortly.
She quickly did as he asked, and gasped in surprise to see the same plant that she saw her sister picking not too long ago.
“Would you please feed one to me?” he asked her.
She put a good sized piece of flowery vine in his mouth. After lying there a moment longer, he sat up.
“JorRobert, you have to tell me what is going on! I feel like I have gone energy mad!” She was getting hysterical again.
“How did you find me here?” he asked his crying wife.
“I’ve been looking for you all day because I have something important to tell you. I went to your parents’ house, your sister’s house, and I even checked with all the members of the band. No one knew where you were. I was on my way home, hoping you’d gone back there, when I saw the light on in here. I thought it was a little odd, because DraDonna and DraDevon were gone; so I thought I would take a look.”
“What is it you to have tell me, JorMelony?”
“It can wait. You have to tell me what happened!” she said, getting angry with him now.
“Well,” JorRobert started. “It’s a long story and I don’t think you’re going to like it.” Looking at his wife’s tear-streaked face, though, he knew he had to tell her.
“Earlier today,” he began, “just after you left, I received an energy message from Ambassador Symon. The message said that DraDonna and DraDevon were in a lot of trouble, that he needed my help.”
He took a deep breath and went on. “The message said I was to go to the temple office. When I got there First Councilor Jude was there and she told me that she too had been called there by Ambassador Symon to deal with this problem. She didn’t tell me very much, but I was shown how to monitor what your sister and her husband were doing with this special EDU stone.”
JorMelony interrupted him. “Wait a moment. Why are they in trouble? What was it they did that was so bad? Was it because they missed the gathering this morning?”
“I didn’t want to be the one to have to tell you this, but they have gone energy mad in the worst possible way. I have seen it with my own eyes. They’ve beaten up two other people already. And the worst thing is they’ve been using science,” he told her in a horrified whisper.
“But DraDonna wouldn’t hurt anybody!” JorMelony jumped to the defense of her sister. “And science? DraDonna and DraDevon don’t know anything about science. They make furniture!”
“It’s true all the same. I saw it with my own eyes on the EDU stone. After I saw that, I was told I needed to go help the two people they had injured, then find and bring DraDonna and DraDevon in for punishment,” he told her. “This is why I’ve been gone all day.”
“But I still don’t understand how you got hurt so badly…”
“That’s the hardest part to tell you JorMelony,” he confessed to her. “I was here trying to figure out where they could have gone when DraDevon showed up. He had been making this big ugly science thing out of steel. All I did was ask him what he was doing, and he went mad and attacked me. DraDevon hit me with the jagged end of that hideous piece of metal.”
JorRobert rubbed his chest where he was wounded and then looked down, feigning innocence and sorrow about what had happened.
All JorMelony was able to do was stare at him in disbelief for several moments. “What about that plant you ate?”
“Oh. The plant is called Traveler’s Joy. First Councilor Jude told me this secret that not many people in the communities know about. You see, if you eat this plant and take in lots of the HEART’s energy, you’re extra strong. She told me I was going to need the extra strength to stop DraDonna and DraDevon. JorMelony, they are trying to do something so atrocious that it makes me sick.”
“What are they trying to do?” JorMelony asked in a small, scared voice.
“They want to try to kill the HEART,” he replied with an angry gleam in his eyes.
Reunion
18
Flinging the door of the cabin open, DraDonna flew into her husband’s arms. They entwined in an embrace so tight that they seemed to be one being instead of two. Without a word from lips that tingled in anticipation of the kiss, they came together in a long sweet caress.
The reunited soul mates pulled back, breathing hard. DraDevon nuzzled his face in his wife’s curly locks. “I was so afraid that I wasn’t going to make it back to you. He almost killed me,” he confessed, tears in his voice.
“What happened?” she asked, still holding him close to her. “Who tried to kill you?”
“Let’s talk about it inside,” he told her. “But first I need healing.”
It was then that DraDonna noticed her husband was trembling. Pulling away from his tight embrace, she stepped back to look at him. She gasped with horror at the sight of the injuries on her precious husband’s face and neck.
With the support of DraDonna’s strong body withdrawn, DraDevon collapsed to his knees in pain.
“What… who?” DraDonna stammered in shock.
“Please help me to the altar; I need healing.” His voice was edged with pain.
Without another word she swiftly helped her husband to his feet and walked him back a few steps to the HEART stone altar. “Do you need me to help you stay at the altar?” she asked, ready to hold him up if need be.
“No my love, I think I can do it.” He weakly placed his right hand on the cool white stone while wrapping his left arm around his injured ribs.
Gasping in pain, he weakly began the prayer for healing. “He that hath faith in the HEART to be…” His prayer was halted by a coughing fit. He gasped, unable to catch his breath and then collapsed across the altar.
“No!” DraDonna cried, dashing to his side. Lifting her unconscious husband, she saw a dark stain of blood on the white stone of the altar, as well as the smear of it on his lips. He was hardly breathing. She hurriedly placed his right hand back on the stone and started the prayer again. “He that hath faith in the HEART to be healed, and is not appointed to death, Shall be healed.” DraDonna was relieved to see the healing blue light of the HEART gather around their hands in a stunning array of sparks.
The energy quickly traveled to the injuries in DraDevon’s body, causing him to take a sharp breath in and then cry out in pain.
Her precious husband’s cry of pain brought tears to her eyes and agony to her soul. She begged the HEART silently to heal him swiftly and ease his pain.
As if in answer to her silent pleading, DraDevon’s breathing evens and the look of agony is no longer on his handsome face.
DraDonna took her hand off of his as the blue light of the HEART’s energy returned to the stone.
DraDevon groaned a little and fell forward once more across the HEART stone altar.
“DraDevon!” she cried, tears falling from her eyes. Fear gripped her soul, “What’s wrong? Didn’t the energy heal you?”
First taking long even breaths, DraDevon turned to look at his wife. “It did, but for some reason I feel really dizzy,” he said. “I think it has something to do with the Traveler’s Joy.”
“Do you need some?” she asked him while wiping the tears from her eyes.
“Yes. I think so.”
“Hold on,” DraDonna said, quickly pulling a large vine with purple blossoms on it from her pouch. She tenderly wiped the blood from his lips before feeding him the vine.
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br /> DraDevon took a moment or two to chew and swallow the plant, then sat up and said, “I think that we need to go in the cabin.”
“Okay,” DraDonna said, feeling relieved that he sounded stronger. “But what happened? Who did this to you?”
“I’ll tell you, but I would feel better if we were in the cabin first.” DraDevon got strongly to his feet.
He took her by the hand, leading the way into the cabin. As soon as they stepped inside, he turned around and captured DraDonna in another embrace, this time placing one hand on the small of her back and tangling the other in her curly copper tresses. He hungrily covered her lips with his own, needing to express his deep abiding love for her.
She responded to his kiss with her own increasing passion. Wanting to be closer to him, she ripped his shirt out from where it was tucked neatly in his belt and ran her hands up the tight planes of his back.
Releasing her lips only to kiss the sensitive skin just beneath her ear, he moaned with the sweet pleasure of her touch.
“I was so afraid you were going to die,” she confessed, breathless with desire. “Please don’t ever leave me alone again; I need you so much.”
He stopped his caressing kisses on her neck so he could look at her, placing a hand on either side of her face. “But I would die for you!” he said, his voice full of emotion and his eyes smoldering with desire.
He slowly and gently covered her lips with his own again, but with the both of them needing to be one, their kissing became more ardent and consuming.
Their actions became one as they removed the barriers between their bodies and their souls. Wrapping their arms around each other, they gracefully lowered to the floor and expressed their deep eternal love for one another.
Leverage
19
JorRobert got strongly to his feet, looking down at his wife who was still sitting on the floor. “I really need to report this,” he told her.
“Report?” she asked him, her patience wearing thin. “Report to whom?”
“First Councilor Jude,” he told her shortly.
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