This is an excerpt from the upcoming novel, DW Lights a Fire, which is Book One in the Traveler Series by Nikki Lyn Pugh. Enjoy!
The counsel approached. They came as a white light, an enormous mass. Even though Cheri could not see them with her human eyes, since they were closed and facing down at her feet, she could in fact see with her mind’s eye, if just a little. She thought she saw one of beings break away from the giant collective orb and approach her.
Suddenly, she was not in the council chambers anymore.
Instead, she was on a mountain hilltop. Behind her was a meadow and she stood looking out at a view below where there were houses and building that dotted the landscape. Somehow it all felt familiar, as if she knew many of the souls who dwelt down there in the valley below. At the same time, she also knew that here on this mountaintop was her home most of all.
The meadow was filled with yellow daisy-looking flowers and green grass and purple lilacs. It appeared to be summer for the breeze was warm on her skin. Behind her was a little cottage with moss covering the roof and a garden around. Gardeners tools were scattered here and there as if someone had just finished working. Indeed, it may have been her. She looked down at her own hands and they appeared to be soiled. Her fingers had bits of dirt under the nails.
Without her physical eyes she saw. And without turning her head she also saw what lie beyond the house as well. It was a little aspen-lined trail. All was bright and very light green over there and she knew that that trail meandered for a while until it came to a little pool where she sometimes bathed, a hot spring on one end and another pool with cool, cool water on the other.
She was waiting, this self that was her but that she also observed to be another person altogether who witnessed the scene from inside her own eyes. After a while, she saw what she was waiting for. It was a craft, rather small and disc-shaped. She waited until everyone got out before she approached, although she could sense that she was excited about the arrival. There were forms, tall and short, but all with large heads, bluish, and also rather large eyes, black on black, yet so very kind. She was filled with a sense of homecoming. Her heart keystone pulsed and glowed a soft pink light. She somehow knew that this was a keystone that unlocked a doorway to something not dark and shameful at all, but to some place wonderful and good and of the Light.
The crowd that had descended from the craft gathered around her and she felt, at last, as if she was greeted by family. She touched heads with every one, even the young ones who were little and she did not recognize.
Somehow she knew it had been a long time since she had seen them. She so wanted to stay awash in the love and Light of this cosmic family forever. But she knew that they couldn’t stay long. At least not yet. Someday. But just not now.
Soon it was time for them to go. With eyes that shone with a mixture of happiness and longing, she watched them go back into the ship one by one, and fly away.
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