Fabala Chapter #10: Mind-Speak
Tuesday, April 28, 1991
I haven't written in this journal for quite awhile and I thought that I'd pick it up again. Not much has happened since I last wrote in November but that doesn't mean that it has been boring. Elphaba keeps us on our toes, we are running out of games and she gets bored easily, and if there is anything that anyone should now about Elphaba, it's that when she gets bored odd things begin to happen. Frex and I have yet to figure out what the girl is interested in, but it just doesn't make any sense. The girl is but a mere six months old and she refuses to even look at picture books, she knows all of the flash-cards words that we are showing her, she can already speak in sentences (even though she is quiet as a country mouse), and she is already walking and has begun to run, which happens to get on my nerves.
Moving back to the odd things that happen when she gets bored; the child was born with powers. I'm not kidding, when I say powers I mean that the girls possesses magical abilities. Frex does not believe in such things, being a minister, but magic runs in my family; my sister has a few abilities and she got them from our father, Roman Skarr who got them from Lurline-knows-where.
When she gets bored she can make her hands surround themselves with fire, she lifts small objects into the air with her mind and she can "teleport" from one room to the next in a "poof" of red smoke. The odd thing about it is the fact that she never dares do it in front of her father, as if she knows that he will react badly but after spending quite some time with this little sorceress of mine I've realized that she can probably read everyone's minds, not just Frex's.
Tuesday, April 28, 1991
I can't believe it…this is impossible, but it is not, because the child has done it. Today, after reading the morning paper and eating breakfast I heard a voice talking. I looked up to see whose voice evaded the peaceful quiet. I looked at Melly, who was attempting to feed Fabala. Fabala would have none of it so Melena eventually stopped. Neither Melena nor Elphaba had their mouths open yet the voice continued. I then started to concentrate on what the voice was saying. "I do not want to eat right now, maybe later though. Papa? Can you hear me? I'm trying to talk to you through my thoughts and yours because I can't speak fluently but I can think thoughts fluently. By the look on your face I bet you can hear me." I looked over to Elphaba and she was looking at me. "I can hear you." I said to her loud enough so she could hear me but soft enough that Melena could not hear. The small green girl shot me her toothiest smile and giggled. I tried to use the same things she was. "Can you hear me, Fabala?" I thought, directing my thoughts as though I was speaking to her. "Yes, Papa, I can hear you." I hear in my head a second later.
The girl can speak to me in my head. How? I haven't a clue but I suppose that this will make a very strong connection between us. I'm sure Melena has some kind connection with her, but the "mind-speak" will be Fabala and I's little secret.