The Starseeds; Beyond Time (Book one)

Chapter 6-7

chapter 6

A Mother Knows

Herb's mother entered his darkened room to check one last time on her child before retiring for the night and plant a kiss of his sleeping cheek.

She was glad that Herb had fallen asleep under his pillow like he often did lately when her and her husband fought. She lifted his pillow but instead discovered Herb's note.

Overwhelmed with the saddest feeling, she turned his nightstand light on. She saw the scattered toys on the floor. She noticed the old Indian basket sitting alone with its blanket missing. She knew what she was going to read before she opened the envelope. Still, she read his message.

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Dear Mommy, I know you are my mother and you love me, but I have to find out who my other mother is, and why she didn't want me. Please don't hate me like daddy does sometimes. I know about everything... love from your son, Herbert.

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She had known this day would come yet it was here. She rushed from the room, screaming to her sleeping husband, "He's gone! He's gone! Not tonight, this can't be happening!"

When he woke, Herb's dad was not happy hearing the news. This kid just caused another problem. This one he now had to solve. After much debate, he took off in his old truck down the deserted road in the pelting rain, searching for his runaway son. After a few hours with a truck ready to run out of gas, he returned home with the bad news.

Mary had already reported it to the local police station and they sent their only patrol car out to search the neighborhood. Mary mentioned she thought he may be headed for the Indian Reservation but not much more. She didn't mention that he was searching for his real mother. Her note was hidden from them and her husband. Their conversation ended with – until tomorrow they won't be able to bring in a search party and comb the adjacent fields.

All Mary could do now was to head for her local church and pray that he would be safe. That he would find his mother, the perhaps he would return home to her or not. Regardless, he was too young to be wandering alone in a world full of so much darkness. Her heart cried all night with worry as she sat on those steps as she remembered this was the place she had found him, and she was going to find him again.

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chapter 7

Shadows on the Wall

Izar felt it was safe enough to venture forward, so he stood over the Earth boy's sleeping body. He studied him with his infrared eyes for the longest time with all of his senses. He hadn't seen an Earth Being from this current time frame, the twenty-first-century. Part of him wanted to reach out and touch him even wake him up to ask him a million questions about everything. He also wondered if he should find his father to warn the others about this intruder. He couldn't pull himself away from watching as he lay there sleeping.

Herb was tossing, turning, and twisting his body in search of peace. Izar could see his aura changing colors so he mumbled to himself, "Interesting, his aura is dense... many dark spaces; hole in the heart chakra. Searching data." His inner mind uttered more of his findings as he held his hands over this boy's heart and witnessed it go from a peaceful state of violet to a dense red color suddenly.

Herb's body twisted and turned as he entered another one of his painful dreams, known to many as nightmares, which were just manifesting their dark thoughts into matter.

Herb was witnessing his mother. A deadly spider was crawling up the side of her neck. The spider's eyes were looking down at the sleeping boy. Herb recognized them. They were his father's eyes staring at him.

His hand swatted at the spider physically as his body went into spasms fighting the evil in his dream world. He started screaming, "Stop! Stop it! Leave her alone... It's not her fault... It's my fault!" His physical Being spoke his dream thoughts out loud.

It startled Izar, and in a flash of light, he retreated backward to shield his body with a bubble of white light. He could now sense the dark state this young boy was living in.

This protection, of surrounding oneself with pure white light, was a custom of Izar's people. They lived by it for thousands of years, especially when darkness this dense was near them.

Herb's dark shadow – his own spirit – hung around and surrounded him like a storm cloud. His internal storm was pelting down on him.

Izar's bright flash of light also startled Herb's sleeping Being. He shot upward like a rocket. His natural response was always one of fear but never an ounce of wonder.

Herb's sleepy eyes caught a glimpse of what he believed to be a soft glowing light – it was an orb of sorts in the distance. Herb covered his eyes as if they were acting up again. He was seeing things. He separated his fingers and looked through the gaps. To his amazement and fright, this wide awake kid saw what appeared to be a silhouette of something. It was like nothing he had seen before.

Izar was partially materialized in the near distance as pure light as he sensed his energetic Being had been noticed. At the speed of light, he disappeared deeper inside the cave.

Overcome with curiosity, Herb reached for his flashlight and swept the darkened space before panic took over. He scrambled to his feet, shoved his arms in his jacket, his feet into his untied high-tops, grabbed his backpack, and attempted to escape before this lit up creature came chasing after him.

Nothing was stopping Herb from fleeing this mysterious place with all its lit up craters the ones he couldn't rationally explain. His movements were rash and dangerous.

It was still raining outside; the storm was more powerful than before. Herb didn't see any of that. He was running away again as well as headed straight for trouble. He was unaware that his shoelace had caught itself under a rock.

This small event caused Herb to fall, and he stumbled down into a deep crevasse. Screaming in pain, his head slammed into a slab of rock below. His twisted body finally came to a rest. He looked down at his leg and discovered he'd hurt his ankle badly. It was now stuck between two large boulders and impossible to release.

Izar heard Herb's piercing cry as Herb tried to free his mangled ankle. His screaming became louder and louder as his body started to go into its own emotional distress. The excruciating pain had him crying his eyes out.

Izar could energetically sense everything about Herb's injury and was even picking it up. He had to be careful not to take it personally, as another's energy can manifest as one's own, but this was something that this highly conscious Being could do.

Still, Izar decided to turn himself into his denser Being and headed toward the painful wailing without thinking twice about the ramifications.

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