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Familiar...Feeling.

by Ashlee Lusch

By A. LuschPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
Familiar...Feeling.
Photo by Rock Vincent Guitard on Unsplash

The forest rustles with a large gust of air from Khansu. The dragon shakes his head as his eyes burst open. The forest is damp with dew, a short sprinkling of water settles down from the air. Khansu is awake but intently listening.

He is searching his senses.

“I’ve never sensed what is calling. This is a new being. I feel it is pure of soul. It is in need.” His thoughts continue. “It is evolved yet extremely vulnerable. It doesn’t feel to be of this realm yet feels familiar.”

Khansu needs no further prompting. His massive glistening white body is off the ground in no time. He leaps above the trees into the blue and purple sky. He takes flight over the forest to the pull of the new energy. After a few moments of flight over the towering trees in the forest, he slows to reenter the trees. He nears a waterfall and knows this is where he needs to go. His body disappears into the green tops of the forest. He travels on intuition and goes right to where this new being rests. His wings flap forcefully back and forth as he lands. Water showers the entire area as he settles. There in front of him standing on two feet is a small being. This being stands stoically, staring at Kahnsu as the water settles from the landing. The Small being with skin that is fair, long hair that is a soft brown, and bright blue eyes, almost as bright as Kahnsu’s, stares at the magnificent creature as he nears. The large white body moves gracefully, glistening white scales slide over one another. The small being stares at the wings as they fold away, they are beautiful, the color resemblant of snow, a shimmering silver and white.

They come face to face. Neither afraid of the encounter. Their eyes meet and they each see a burst of light, a mixture of green and purple along with a sense of DeJa Vu. Their communication is all telepathic. The connection has been made.

Kahnsu asks the being why she is here. She replies with a question. “Where am I?” Kahnsu senses this is a human. Kahnsu asks, “Are you a human?” She replies “Yes” Kahnsu responds “Why are you so small? Are you all this size?” “No, dragon, I am a child, a young child” Kahnsu rustles, unsettled “where is your guardian?” The child calmy responds” It is only me here, I was brought here with the understanding that only I could enter once we reached the doorway to this world. Kahnsu settles. “Well then, you should know. You are where the dragons live. We are safe from your kind here.”

“Okay, child. Why are you here?”

The child suddenly realizes, the dragon can understand what she is saying.

The child asks,” are we talking?” “Yes, but not like in your world. We talk with our minds, not our mouths. “The child says softly “nobody understands me in my world”

Kahnsu snorts, feeling a sudden urge to fend for this child. “What do you mean?”, Kahnsu asks.

“Well, I am different in the Earth Realm. I cannot speak like the other humans. I cannot communicate as they do.” I can understand them. I try to communicate, I try to communicate with my mouth, and my head. But only my mother understands me.”

Kahnsu, breathing out relief hearing of the mother” I’m happy to listen. Tell me why you’re here”

The child begins.

“I exist in the earth Realm. We are going through many changes on our planet and in our realm. I exist to help the planet and the souls there. I bring light, love, and a pathway to the new Earth. It is very hard for me to exist there. I see everything brighter, hear everything louder, smell everything stronger, feel more intensely-both physically and energetically. My mother tries her best to help me, but she doesn’t understand what I need yet. I am here because the changes we are going through are very difficult. We are moving at a very rapid pace from dark to light. I’ve been told it’s much faster than any world has ever moved before. With this, comes chaos, confusion, many souls are forced to face the light as we emerge into this world. They do not like how this feel. It is very painful for them. I am here to ask something of you.”

A flash of bright light and a sensation of being spun around at light speed overcomes both this child and Kahnsu. They both jolt to a sudden stop. They are suspended in darkness. No sound, light, no sense of space or time. They are in the void. They are facing one another, size does not exist here, they are equals. The child looks into Kahnsu’s eyes. The toddler speaks, “I am you, Kahnsu, in the earth realm” I travelled here to ask for the union of our souls. I ask you to join me, help me. Heal this planet. I will need your protection. I will need your guidance. I will need your power. So will my mother.” Kahnsu bows head down in acknowledgement of what he knows to be true, too. I accept. I will call you Bronwen, fitting for the purity of your heart and soul. You are blessed with the energetic union of Kahnsu.”

With another flash of light, they are both back in the forest. Green and purple blood surge through Kahnsu’s white Body. The blood looks to be illuminated by light. The colors beat faster and louder until light does emerge out of Kahnsu’s heart center and envelops Bronwen.

Bronwen jolts suddenly and violently in bed, waking her mother.

“Hello little one. That must have been some dream, “she says as she scoops the small child up for a cuddle. Bronwen nestles into her mother, with a renewed sense of purpose, and protection.

“Thank you, Kahnsu, the child whispers”

Fantasy

About the Creator

A. Lusch

Non-Binary author

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