I see what you see
I feel what you feel
In life you'll be free
To be what you need to be
For my karma has been good and my luck great
For this you'll receive what you'll need to succeed.
Blessed be my children three.
Maria heard the voice, melodic in its tone, love for her children clearly being heard her tone, offering comfort to the unborn, and felt an immense well of sadness grow. Somehow she knew that the woman's wish had not come true. Somehow she knew that one of the three would be bad, somehow….
She could feel something trickling down her cheeks. Raising her hands, she rubbed them lightly over her cheeks. They came away damp with silent tears.
"When had this happened?" she wondered. Taurus's like she were supposed to remain tough, and not shed so many tears as the more sentimental Libra's.
Taking in the surroundings she wasn't surprised to see it looked nothing like earth. It was even more beautiful, she thought to herself.
The sky was a deep sapphire blue, the river running into a large lake, a strange opaque green colour that Maria somehow knew was a sign of it having a lot of life in it.
The area was surrounded in bushy trees similar to those on earth, the branches reaching to the sky trying to touch it. The only difference being, there foliage, a deep burgundy, was over flowing with yellow oval fruit hanging from some…
She started suddenly.
Twisting to her left, se saw over the gently rolling hills, the land gradually turning to a surreal dessert setting similar to the desert views she had seen at sunset, the sun's dying rays leading a softening light on the harshness of the desert, with Micheal.
They had been some of the best times in her life, well, she ammended, when they weren't at each other's throats.
But what had startled her was not the different landscape; no it was something else entirely.
Emerging from the under one of the trees was the most beautiful beast Maria had ever seen.
It's majestic coat a shiny satin black, it resembled the mythical creatures on earth known a Unicorns, beasts which Maria had throughout her childhood never been ashamed to show her interest in.
As he emerged further out from the bushes. Starting to gallop, Maria felt her breath catch in her throat.
It had wings. Beautiful black wings.
As it galloped the wings unfurled from along its flank and spread wide, their length not slowing his gallop at all, till suddenly it was air born and heading straight for her, unerringly.
20 feet, 10 feet, 5 feet…it was right upon her, so close that looking into its gentle green eyes, she could see where one of it's super long eyelashes had fallen halfway into its eye.
Sweeping her hand over his long face, she took the offending item away, without even thinking about her actions, knowing instinctively that the animal would not hurt her.
As she was watching, something almost unnoticeable happened and the eyes began to change, there colour becoming more pronounced so now she could see the half brown stripe in one eye somehow effortlessly highlighting the animal's intelligence, something which hadn't been quite so obvious before.
Rubbing her hand gently down the side of his face, she could feel her mouth curling at the familiarity of the feeling, something clicking at the back of her mind.
Looking into the animal's eyes once more and holding it's gaze, she shook her head in confusion, trying to clear the cobwebs from her mind.
"I know your name is Nimissa, but why do I know this. Did I know you in a different life?" she stopped as she felt his head move. Her gaze accidentally looked down.
Not shocked, she found herself just feeling mild surprise. She explored the feeling in her mind. Yeah, she assured herself, mildly surprised would do nicely.
She was floating over fifty feet in the air, which would explain why she could see so much of the landscape, she told herself sarcastically.
Grabbing Nimissa's perfectly groomed black main, she swung her legs over the animals back resting back just above the span of wings.
Winding her arms around the animal's neck, she didn't notice the deep ivy gold chain that had appeared on the animal's neck just as she swung up.
Leaning in, she rested her head against Nimissa's "Take me home" her voice was whimsical.
She hadn't had this dream before but somehow she knew that wherever she landed, it would be magnificent. It would be a castle.
Liz sat in the murky dark library, books piled haphazardly around her, some already given into the gravities pull and fallen over, to be quickly pulled under her table by her constantly moving feet, constantly moving bare feet.
Hitching her boob tub more firmly up over her chest, she leaned back, stretching, not stopping until she felt bones cracking, only then would she feel truly stretched.
Liz was satisfied; she hadn't been able to sleep past five this morning, haunted with the images of plants that she desperately needed to know the name of. Surfing the net hadn't helped, but she had noticed a research centre not far from Roswell specialising in plants, their uses and their evolutionary beginnings.
Writing a note to her parents and thanking the lord it was her day of, she took of in her mothers car, heading there even though it was only shortly after half seven in the morning.
Luckily there had been somebody there and quick talking had managed to get access to their library, the researcher clearly fascinated by her fascination with something that had become a bit repetitive to him after sixty years.
Walking away from her, he started to think maybe it was time for him to retire.
Liz didn't pay any attention to him after he had shown her to the library.
Looking through book after trying to identify the plant, and failing to find exactly what she was looking for, she had a brain wave. Maybe the plant had yet to be named. She had seen several plants in the book that if they had been joined together would have created her plants.
Setting those books to one side, she started on the books showing what happened when DNA was changed in plants, or what happens when a hybrid of two is created.
Liz was happy because she believed she had found a way to combine seven strands of DNA to create one plant and if she could do this then the world would be her oyster she tough humorously.
She had always, ever since she could remember, been interested in science. It was a elemental part of her life, one she could not change.
Pushing her air out of her way she got back to taking notes, only to stop again a few seconds later.
Reaching into her bag, she grabbed a clip and twisting her hair into a knot and clipped it into place.
Scratching the back of her neck impatiently, and went back to her books.
Hours passed in a daze, the book piles she had yet to red diminishing in size until there were only three left.
Stretching once again, she worked the kinks out of her back, noticing as she looked out the window that when she had first started had been filled with the light was now pitch black, the only light in the room coming from fluorescent bulbs fixed overhead.
Gather her notes together; she looked up curiously as the door to the library opened to reveal the researcher who had let her in.
Coming to stand beside her, he asked solicitously "Did you find what you were looking for?" handing over a can of coke and a sandwich pack.
Even more curious, Liz looked at him, automatically taking what he had pushed towards her.
"You didn't have seem to have eaten anything and I didn't want you becoming ill or anything" shrugging his shoulders uncomfortably.
Liz smiled " thanks, this is just what I needed. And in answer to your question, I didn't find exactly what I wanted, but I now have some ideas how to achieve it which is a lot better then the nothing I had before."
"Did you finish all the books?" his voice holding some disbelief.
"No" she paused self consciously "I have a few more to read actually. I was wondering could I come back sometime and finish them?"
He looked at the table. Only three books remained on it. Looking at the girl, he made up his mind instantly, something he rarely did. Gathering up the books in his arms, he questioned "These?" at her nod, he smiled slightly. Pushing them into her arms "Take them. Just remember to bring them back when your return" he finished jokingly.
The appreciative look on her face was all he needed, but that said it was nice to hear her say it in words as well.
Waving cheerily good-bye, he waked down the corridors a bounce in his step. The girl had just given him the answer to a question that had been plaguing him for the last few years of his life.
It was definitely time to retire, he thought, especially when there were young enthusiastic people like Liz around. People who were still curious about the world.
Even if they had tattoo's curving in a point down her neck.
He hadn't believed it himself when he had seen it on Liz, but he thought, times are changing, and people liked to experiment.
Even people like Liz Parker who would make a brilliant scientist, he knew, even from the brief glimpse he had of her. She had the stubbornness and tenacity to go far in the world of science.
He started to whistle, a great weight lifted of his shoulders.
His wife would be pleased.
Liz starred at the revolving doors in shock. He really was a nice guy, she thought.
She was definitely coming back.
Perhaps he could give her some insider tips about how to go about getting what she wanted.
Micheal snapped the phone shut angrily, tempted to throw the damn thing against the wall.
He had gotten through to Maria's message minder again.
Where the hell was the she, and why wasn't she answering him? He didn't have a good feeling about this.
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