Whisper to clouds

Chapter 8 - Blank White Canvas.

Charlotte was still recovering from the lack of energy that her reserves had, the necklace took half of the many energy reserves she had. One half was empty, another half was full of energy. Charlotte did the math if she had sixty energy reserves and if she took away half it would then be... one hundred and twenty lost energy. Still, Eleanor warned her, "... But it can still be fatal even with someone who has mastered its properties..." It didn't scare Charlotte but it got her thinking about solutions, but her mind came blank. Nothing was on her mind, apparently, after her "accident", her parents decided to get her into online classes.

Charlotte didn't like attending meetings, especially at seven in the morning. Charlotte dreaded the online meetings, but she still had to study, either way, there was no chance of escaping it. Charlotte was bored out of her mind, her mind was blank. Charlotte wished she could return to school and see 25682 and 68765, those two were really fun people to hang around with.

In the afternoon Charlotte got her assignments done, and her teacher requested another one. Charlotte groaned, she didn't want more assignments, she just wanted to rest her eyes and lay down for a few moments.

Her mind had no thoughts, it was just empty. Charlotte did some yoga but it didn't help as much as she would've thought, her mind was wandering but it didn't have a trail to follow which made her mind blank.

Charlotte wanted her energy reserves to replenish, but Charlotte knew that it would take a very long time for her energy reserves to be full of energy. Only thirty energy reserves were empty, and she had lost one hundred and twenty energy from her reserves. The fact that energy would slowly be dripping down like a small drop, one small drop at a time. Dripping into the energy pool, Charlotte knew how to meditate, but she didn't know how to meditate for long periods.

Charlotte had to try and meditate no matter how boring it seemed, she just had to try to possibly regenerate more energy faster into her reserves. Charlotte went outside, apparently, Aina and Emil were staying, and Emma and Wyatt were going back to Norway. Nobody was outside at the moment, so she found it to be the perfect opportunity to meditate for a while.

Charlotte sat down and meditated in the lotus position. She took deep breaths to immerse herself to concentrate.

Eleanor didn't explain how Charlotte should replenish her energy, she didn't tell her anything. Charlotte thought that Eleanor was keeping many secrets but in reality, they would just be silly thoughts to anybody else.

Of course, Charlotte had to not speak about Eleanor, as it would possibly bring either chaos or peace. In her mind, it was dark, there was nothing to see or hear. It was just blank. Charlotte wanted to have meditation as a part of her "daily routine". She did have a lot of free time on her hands, and she wasn't really worried about anything currently.

Charlotte felt like she related to a fictional character, it seemed silly. But everyone had someone to relate to, right? Sakura Haruno, Charlotte liked her because she was always mature about things, but also didn't like her because she was kinda annoying at times. Sure, it was dumb to relate to a fictional character, but it helped her to overcome some challenges in the past. In the past, Charlotte felt like she was useless and she hated herself for being that way. For three years she improved very little, but it still made her happy that she at least improved a little.

Aina went outside and she didn't notice that Charlotte was meditating. When she saw Charlotte she screamed and almost jumped. Christiana ran outside to see what was going on, she saw Aina. "Why did you scream?" Christiana asked as she looked at Aina. "I didn't notice Charlotte... She gave me a good scare." Aina said. For Christiana, it was very rare to see Charlotte ever meditating. Charlotte would only meditate for five minutes at least. "I think she's been here for a while." Christiana said, "Is Emil sleeping?" Aina asked, "Yes, he's sleeping, I have to say he's a heavy sleeper, for sure." Christiana said.

Charlotte heard Aina scream, Charlotte didn't flinch at the scream, she had been concentrating for a long time. She also heard her mom but didn't pay attention to the conversation. Her mind was still focused on replenishing the energy she had lost, just because of the necklace. One drop at a time, one drop at a time, it would take forever for Charlotte to be able to fill up 30 reserves with energy. It's just a blank white canvas. A Blank white canvas. Her mind was just a blank white canvas, it didn't have the paint, to begin with, and once her mind would start thinking of anything major, the canvas would have a few strokes of paint.

Only a few strokes of paint, increasing and increasing until the canvas wasn't white anymore but just filled with randomly selected colors. Reset, and again, starting with a fresh new canvas, every single month starting a fresh new canvas.

Again, repeat the cycle, over and over. An endless cycle of having a blank white canvas and then having it filled with colors she had never imagined. Mixing and adding colors every moment she thought of something. Right now, that canvas was white, there were no brush strokes, no minor issues. A perfect canvas.

Charlotte liked to see a Bob Ross video on the internet, she liked his paintings. She once copied one of his paintings to put it on her bedroom wall, and it turned out amazing, but then she changed it a year later because she wanted to paint over it.

Aina walked over to see the small garden, and Aina saw the sunflowers. Christiana walked over to Aina "I love the sunflowers! And the roses too!" Aina said happily, "How's it been in Norway recently, I've heard that it was raining constantly." Christiana said. "It rains so often over there, recently we've been having thunderstorms." Aina said, "Well, I hope the weather clears up over there." Christiana said. "I hope so too," Aina said, she quickly went inside to check up on Emil, who was still sleeping.

Charlotte didn't know how much energy she had to amass into the reserves if she had the time to keep up with her studies and keep up with daily life.