Mid-Week Flash Challenge - Week 301

This week's picture prompt is a digital creation by Ciara, or Aura, as she calls herself online, and She Freaks, She Speaks, over on Facebook. She has some wonderful digital art, and she also has a shop where she sell crystals and crystal jewellery. If you like that sort of thing there's a lot of choice. I have also used one of her pictures before - remember the stain glassed bath? That was one of  her pictures. 

A gentler story today. 

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Mind Magic

Adeline swirled thespecial glass-bodied teapot, with its multicoloured gemstone decoration roundthe top, letting the herbs and spices within release their properties into thehot water.

She inhaled the steam coming out of thefiligree spout, and smiled, knowing it was almost ready.

She set it down on the small coffee tableand laid crystals and gemstones around it, placing candles in between so thelight flowed through them.

She moved into her cross-legged positionand inhaled deeply. The scent was getting stronger and she knew it wouldn’t belong now.

Since Adeline had discovered this route toaccessing the other side, she indulged it as often as she could. She hoped soonshe would reach him.

She took in a deep breath and closed hereyes. The light behind them swirled with rainbow colours, which began to moveinto a spiral, taking her further into herself and the cavernous rooms of themind. Then an archway appeared in her mind’s eye and she stepped through into ameadow which swept away to a cliff edge.

She walked to the cliff edge and lookedacross the wide vista in front of her, where the mountains opened up to plainsof lush green forests and open spaces. It was a spectacle to behold.

She called out his name hearing it echoacross the land. She did this repeatedly then walked to a hill that rose offthe left side of the meadow, and sat cross-legged at the top. She closed hereyes, seeing the meadow in her mind’s eye again and repeating the same actions.She did this four times. During the fourth she felt him: his energy, his mood,his aura.

Then a whisper; her name on the breeze. Shecalled out to him again, opening her eyes and standing up, hoping to glimpse him.

  Sheopened her arms wide and felt an energy swirl round her. It was his energy. Hewas here!

She wished she could see him, but feelinghim was special, being that it had been several lifetimes since she had. Shehoped to be reunited in their next life – it’s why she was doing this. If shecould connect to him enough times in this life, they would be able to find eachother more easily in the next.

She breathed in his aura, remembering hissoftness, his loving nature and his heart. She felt his yearning andreciprocated it. For a few precious seconds they were entwined again. Sherevelled in it, not wanting it to be over, but before she knew it he had gone.

Adeline waited in case he returned. It couldhave been for a few seconds or it could have been hours. Eventually she acceptedthe moment was over and she pulled herself out of each level of meditation. Thenshe brought herself back into her body, and opened her eyes, staring at the elaborateteapot.

She felt sad yet at the same time elated. Shemissed him, but knew he was there waiting.

She treasured that moment as much as shetreasured her teapot.

She touched the side of it. It had growncold now, but, like her love for him, the hot water could be replenished; themagic was still alive.