Karissa: Chapter 6: The Visit to Elmhurst Estate Part 2

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David escorted Karissa around Elmhurst Estate and he pointed out to her all the gardens on Elmhurst Estate  and he said, "My late mother had a hidden garden that she use to take me into when I was a young child." 

"My late mother, Lady Eliza  was a wonderful mother, and she tried to be a wonderful wife to my late father, Lord William, but he was cold, distant, and aloof. He wasn't responding to her affection. I don't even think when I was born that he was present." David explains to Karissa.

"I remember my late mother being blonde hair, blue eyes, and fair skin. She had a such a soft voice." David tells Karissa.

"I remember my late mother taking me out into her garden and she would sit there and read to me out of my book of Fairy Tales." David tells Karissa, "I have any memories of my late father." 

"Lord William never attended any of my graduations  from Parochial School or when I graduated from Star Fleet Academy. I only remember my Aunt, Lady Charlotte Augusta Beck at my graduation." David tells Karissa as they stand in the garden.

"Lady Charlotte married a wonderful man by the name of Mr Charles Clark and after they were married they left Star Base 12 and moved to Star Base  6." David replies.

"Does Lady Charlotte have any children?" Karissa asks.

"I don't know Karissa. I guess so." David replies," I have not seen her for four years." 

"I am sorry David.  I don't have much family either but my cousin, Keri Andersen." Karissa answers.

"Where does Ms. Keri Andersen live?" David asks.

"Keri still lives on Planet Earth and she is happily married to a gentleman she met in high school in Florida." Karissa replies, "She only has one child, a daughter, Leslie."

"I really miss Keri and we were very close in growing up in Virginia." Karissa replies."We had such fun."

"Ms. Keri sounds very nice Karissa. I hope to be able to meet her." David replies.

"I do hope but I don't know if Keri would be happy out here on Star Base 12." Karissa answers.

"My late mother gave my late father a second child, a baby girl, my little sister, Lady Lisa, but she died two days after she was born and my mother followed three days later." David tells Karissa.

"Do you not know that we never die David." Karissa tells him, "This is wonderful because Wicca don't believe we die. We live on." Karissa replies.

"I am not a religious man Karissa." David replies, "I try to believe what my late mother taught me , but Star Fleet Academy is very secular and scientific." 

"How tragic David. There is so much beauty in Wicca." Karissa replies, "It is not bloody like Christianity, Judaism, or Islam." 

"All three of those religions are bloody and have bloody histories behind them." Karissa explains, "Christianity tried to do away with Pagans, Witches, and Wicca, but they have failed to do so, and we continue to flourish." 

"I love to learn the ways that my late lady mother taught me and she was a Pagan and Wicca too. Will you teach me Karissa?"? David asks.

"Gladly David, I am just learning too." Karissa replies, "I once was a Christian but most Christians don't believe in what James 1:27-29 teaches." 

"I don't think Jesus Christ would approve of what most Christians do and say. They judge one another and hate one another all because of different denominations and this doesn't say much about Judaism and Islam either. " Karissa explains.

"Jesus taught us to love one another but Christians can't do that either and neither can Jewish or Islam. " Karissa replies, "They have a bunch of do's and do not" 

"Christianity, Judaism, and Islam place women in a second class category and so does Hindu and Buddhism, but I have found out that Pagans, Witches, and Wicca are treat each other with equality and help each other out." Karissa states.

"Karissa, I would love to learn more about my late mother's spirituality." David replies, "With you to help I am sure I can fulfill her dreams." 

"I will do whatever it takes to guide you, but I am just a baby myself in this journey. I am just learning myself, and in like any new faith we are babies, we take small spoonfuls of spirituality and then we go on to solid food." Karissa replies.

"Come Karissa, Let me take you show you more of the property and we will continue t o talk and with that David and Karissa start to walk together and they talk to each other.

  

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