REVERIE OF THE AWAKEN MIND

Chapter 12

I was staring at the ball in my hand while Gillian fell asleep and comfortably lying in the huge branch of this tree. How can she just sleep in here? We were both looking at the royal group roaming around the place still not seeing anything. Yes, we are still here and I think, it's been an hour already.

Kean, Camille, Hailey and Prince Stanley are not yet leaving the place that means they also thought that — that was the place where the fired ball landed. It just made me believe that this ball is the only thing that we are all looking for.

What is this for? Why the heck Gillian can't even lay the tip of her finger in here for she would get burnt by the heat of this ball? Then why the f*ck it's cold when it comes to me? The fire, air and water that dances inside this ball, it changes position. I don't know what will happen next but I am looking forward about this thing, even if I have any single idea what is this for. What about this.

My eyes narrowed when Prince Stanley raised his arm and it lightened. What is he going to do? I immediately put shield around me and Gillian to cover the two of us together. It seems like he was searching a thing in the whole place. What took him so long to realize that he can use his power to search over?

I looked at Gillian who's still sleeping. With the bubble of the water shield, we teleported into our house. Mom is probably not around so it would be better if we get in here than to get into their house that I am sure grandma was there. I glanced into my best friend and I shoke my head as I saw her still sleeping peacefully.

Damn I wish I have her sleeping deep syndrome. I laughed at that thought. I didn't mean it was a bad thing but I just called it her syndrome for she really sleep so deep. While me, I can sleep yes, but when there's just a little noise around, I would surely get ky eyes opened and will be having a hard time to sleep the next time.

I roamed around my sight and I'm not seeing mom. She's probably in the next town delivering the foods she cooked. I put the ball in the table and I stared at it. I want to learn what is the possible thing that this ball has. This is not an ordinary ball and I am sure of that. I tried to lift my hand up and released a water in my hand to strike this ball in here.

But my eyes widened when the water that I was supposed to strike was immediately succored by the dancing water from the inside like it has a magnetic force. What does it mean? It seems now connected, however, the fire and the air was just there stayed still in there position.

As I pulled back the water I released, the water inside this ball went back to it's position. What is this thing? Whatever it has inside has a life, that was a living something I couldn't explain. What the heck is this? Should I surrender this ball to the Holy University council? Can they even touch this ball?

No, I'm not giving this to anybody especially not to the council. They would surely get wonder why I was able to hold this ball with my barehand. And I'm not wishing to be part of their subject to study. They will be putting me inside the laboratory where the room was filled with the powers of the royals to make sure that whoever is put inside won't have a chance to free her or himself.

That is why Holy University council was so eager to have every strange thing studied because they want to rule the entire Holy Land. They promised that they will never cause any harm to anybody and that is why they got the trust from the King and Queen.

"Amara."

I flinched and almost fell in the chair when my name was called from behind. My eyes widened when I saw my mom and I was about to hide the ball quickly however mom already got to see this. I step aside when she walked towards my direction with her eyes locked into this thing I have in front of me.

"Mom! I thought, you were in the next town. Where did you go?" I asked her.

She looked at me and smiled, "I went there but I didn't take too long for I will be harvesting some vegetables in the garden," she answered while sticking her eyes in the ball. "What is this? Where did you get this?"

I gulped as I composed myself to start doing the story and tell her about this one.

"Earlier in the very morning. I left with Gillian to see what is it that fell in the mountain. It was a falling fired ball, mom and we reach the location, we found this. I am not sure if this was what we are lookin' for but it could be. There's just one thing about this thing that really bothers me a lot," I told her in my low voice.

My mom's eyes narrowed as she look at me and back into the ball. I guess, she's not believing what I said or maybe she was trying to absorb every words.

"What was that?" she asked, I give an awkward smile as I slowly touch my hand into the ball. Mom was following my move and she was looking at my hand until it perfectly touched the ball. I even lifted it infront of her.

"I can touch it, mom," I started. "Can you lay the tip of your finger in it? Just the tip, please," I asked her.

Immediately I saw how she was wondering with my question to lay her finger tip. I gulped when mom tried to do what I just asked her. Gillian got burnt, I don't know what is it about mom.

She flinched the moment she had her finger tip touched into the ball and her eyes widened and she looked at me. She really couldn't believe it, she even tried to lay her finger once again.

"It's hot! Really hot! Can you hold your hand in this thing, Amara?" she asked me narrowing her eyes while pointing the ball on the table.

"I couldn't explain, mom. I don't know. Gillian also tried to touch it however she got burnt because of the hotness this ball I couldn't feel. It was really cold when I lay my skin in this." I lifted again the ball that made mom even more curious. She's looking at the ball as well as my hand.

"How is that happened? You can only feel cold and not hot?" she asked like I didn't told her that yet. I nodded. "I don't think that would be a good news, Amara. We do not know what is that ball about and for. Plus, I am sure that the council of Holy University was already looking for that thing. Hija, you will put into the laboratory, they will be examining your body---"

I stopped mom by holding her hand. I can sense gow much she got worried about me. I was thinking the same thing. The council have done that before and the Holiester they put inside the laboratory died. She couldn't handle the force of the joined forces of powers from the royals.

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"Mom, don't worry. I have no plan of giving that ball into the Holy University. I have no plan pf surrounding that in the council. I found that mom, I found that so that is mine. Mom, I think it has something thay could connect with my ability," I explained to her and opened my palm infront of her as I motioned to release a water and have it connected with the water from the inside.

I slowly opened my hand and raised it in the place where the ball can reach it with no obstacle. Mom gasped when the water from the inside seems like reaches the water in my hand and now, it's connected.

"It's not hot?" she asked while still in awe. I shoke my head as an answer and move my hand a little. The water followed the movement of the water that I am in controlled.

And while doing this, one thing comes in my mind and I look at mom. I was about to speak when Gillian immediately showed up beside her and her eyes widened while looking at my hand and the dancing water that came out from the ball to reach the water I released.

"Amara! How did you do that?" she asked stupefied.

"I was about to strike the ball to see if I can break or even at least put a c***k on it but when I released a water, the water from the inside reaches my own water and it became like this, it seems magnetic," I explained even if I couldn't even really explain how this one works.

"Amazing!" She was damn amazed while me, I'm here, wondering why this one works like this and wanted to understand of this thing won't do any harm for me and mom while putting this just in here. "But also seems, dangerous."

I couldn't agree more. This is so beautiful yet looking so dangerous. This is weird.

I looked at my mother who's still eyeing the ball with her arms crossed in her chest. She was looking at it very intently like she was studying what was this ball about. The only thing that I know, this ball has a life inside. It's transparent and whoever would look at it, they can see the dancing fire, water and air inside of it and that's all.

"Mom, will you please?" I asked her that made her turned to meet my eyes.

She has the ability to release a fire in her palm and if the water works for and catches the energy of the water inside, I wonder if it would also work with mom. However, she can feel the hotness of the ball.

"Can you touch that, Auntie? I burnt my palm when I tried, unlike Amara, she can even stick the ball in her skin without any damages," Gillian said seriously. She was looking with mom like she was telling her what happened earlier.

"I can feel the heat of the ball," mom answered while looking at the ball. "Do you think, it would work on me?" she asked referring to the same move I did with the water.

"I don't know, mom. I even have no idea how did it work with me," I honestly said.

As I glanced my mother, she is not old yet. She is looking young and she is very beautiful. She gave birth to Kean when she was just in her early 20's and 3 years later she gave birth to me. She was just looking a bit older her age because of how she dressed up. She always wears loose clothes that won't show her body figure and I know why.

Her angle in my eyes right here and now, I would say that she can still pass as a woman with no children if she would just dressed up like how the other woman in her age dressed up. And that's why I know that mom still has the strength of her power. I know she's still been practicing it.

She maybe barely uses her power in anything but I know she was always making sure that she won't lost her strength in the track. Especially that she was only walking back and forth to the next town to deliver their foods and other necessities.

My eyes went drifted into mom's hand when she motioned it with a burning fire in her palm. She was still blocking it with her other hand to avoid any magnetic force that would react in between the fire that this ball has and the fire she has in her hand.

"You better make sure that this place is safe, Amara. We won't like to attrack our neighborhoods attention," mom said and I nodded.

Gillian and I together put a shield the entire house so whatever happen in here will stay here and whatever sound this ball would make, hopefully it would also just stay here. I am certain that a little sound won't make to break the shield, however it this ball will blow, I don't know the force and how loud of a sound this could do.

I am even have no idea why mom is co-operating my me and Gillian here. She is damn willing to participate and she was also studying this ball.

"We made a two layers of shiled, Auntie. This place is safe now, we can now do it," Gillian said while looking at mom who's also very much busy staring at the transparent ball.

She nodded and she's carefully and slowly removing her hand that she used as a blocker to avoid force that would possible connect between to force from each fire. She was readying herself to strike the ball with the fire in her hand. And when she did, the three of them gasped and immediately turned to narrowed our eyes with confusion.

How is that happened?

Mom's fire blown up in the air before it even reaches in the middle of the space between the two fires and the fire from the ball didn't even had a reaction. It was still just the dancing fire inside.

"It didn't work plus it was hot, very hot," mom mumbled and looked at her hand before starting back the transparent ball. "I have no idea about that for it was the first time that I was able to see this kind of thing my whole in Holy Land," she said.

"Do you think it's dangerous, mom?" I asked mom.

"I don't know, you just have to make sure that you keep that away from other Holiesters. We do not know what is going to happen when that ball fell into other's hand. I think, this ball is important, you have to know what is the reason why you were able to touch that ball with your hand. You seem to have a connection with that one," she seriously answered.

I can see and sense how serious she was. I don't know what's with this ball but mom is partially right. I have to keep this thing away from others. It's enough to have her and Gillian knew about this so I could tell them whatever a thing I would discover with this. She turned her back and walk directly towards the kitchen.

Gillian looked at me and I looked at her back. She shrugged like she don't know what she is going to say.

"I can't bring this to the Holy University," I told her and she immediately agreed. I can't bring thing around with me.

If Lady Penelope already know that we went to the mountain with our body fine, she will surely ask me and Gillian what we were doing in there. Although she thought she was the reason of our absence she would immediately come to think that we just chose not to attend her class and we uses the incident happened between us.

They will just suspected us to finding the thing that the council asked the royalties to find. If the royalties didn't find anything in there, this ball is probably the only thing that we are looking for and luckily we got to find it first. I have to search the information about this strange ball. If I have to read all the books in the Holy University's library I will do it, even if that's the last place of Holy University that I would want to go.

Hailey and Camille they would surely not leave me and Gillian alone. The council expected them to finish their project and that is their missions. I know they were thinking we went uphill with such agenda.

"You really should leave that here," she said and eventually sighed that made me look at her narrowing my eyes, she again looked at me, "why do I feel like, after today, there's something big that would happen?"

Her words made me stop for a moment to absorb. I glanced at the ball and suddenly think she was right. I don't know in what reason that would make a huge changes in anything or our lives but I can also feel that. There's really something that I want to look forward, either it's a good thing for me or a bad thing.

And among those things, what I want to know is the information about this ball right here in front of me. I have find that as soon as possible so I still have time to dispose it if it's not supposed to be in the Holiester's land.

"Changes in life happens everyday. You maybe not noticed it for some of the changes are just small things but it happens," mom suddenly said. Gillian and I looked at her in unison and we saw her cooking again.

"Are you bringing that food in the next town, mom?" I asked her.

"Amara, we also need to eat that is why I need to cook for us. Well, if you don't want to eat, it's fine. I can stop right now," she answered that made me widened my eyes in realization of her words. I heard her chuckled as well as Gillian.

Damn, that was a dump question of me.