by Donna Altman
“It’s my pleasure to have you back with us.” Ellie kissed her cheek.
Again, I shook Ultress’s hand and embraced each of the females. Our parting was gentle except for Dee. She walked with Ellie and me to the end of the graveled path. She hugged Ellie, and then she wrapped her arm around my waist as if being a loving, gentle soul. With a swift motion, her foot connected to my butt. Everyone began to laugh. Ellie shook her head as the cherubs sang though her laughter. I grabbed Dee before she could escape and picked her up with her back facing my chest. I whirled her around and around making the world spinning around us. Dee and I had formed a relationship that would become the entertainment of our eternity. As we waved goodbye, Ellie and I held hands. She looked up at me and smiled then we vanished back to our human-like existence to a place called Delmont.
EPILOGUE
Ellie and I were ready to go to our class this morning as we started for the door of my dorm room. Of course, once we returned to school, Ellie redecorated my room to suit her comfort in black and crimson. As we reached the door, Ellie looked at me, but I knew what she wondered. I held up the research paper that was due this morning. It rested in a leather backing. She smiled and kissed me.
Walking up the stairs to the building in which contained the lecture hall where Ellie came back to me. We walked together holding hands. The thoughts of others made me smile. Yes, I was deeply in love with the breathtaking, beautiful being that laughed at these thoughts. We stopped on the top step realizing all eyes looked in our direction. I pulled her close and kissed her. The thoughts of our classmate were racing with thoughts of “what the heck.” They were in disbelief, and they stared in awe.
Trish, Meg, Jen and Brit stood in a circle with their mouths open. I heard Ellie’s thoughts of a fly landing on their tongues. With the moment ending, she pulled back and smiled holding my eyes for what could have been an eternity for humans, but it was only a short millisecond of time for us.
Ellie giggled as we listened to their thoughts. They were in shock. Trish’s thoughts of jealously rang out above the others. However, one voice was missing and something was telling me there was something wrong. The brunette male I now knew as Michael wasn’t here. I searched for him, but my thoughts were dark. He was not of the living. My memory of the professor’s thoughts came back to me, and I wondered if he completed his violent act of murder. I search through the thoughts of the others students standing around waiting to go to class. They were unknowing of his missing. They thought he was off doing drugs or laying up with a woman somewhere.
We turned to enter the building as the wind blew a breeze that chilled our immortal souls. The smell was one we both knew. A small child deep in the jungle of South America named Graylee described the smell as the ‘stinky one’. Ellie looked at me. Our eyes turned tense. We both knew she was near. I felt a cold chill run down my back as Ellie’s grip became tighter on my arm.
My thoughts went back to Anesidora’s tomb and the last card she drew for me:
Card: The World; in the reverse – This card shows accomplishment, a fulfillment, the completion of a personal cycle, a project, a series of events or a chapter in one’s life. However, this card lay in reversed. It showed completion delayed, resistance to change, an indication that events have not yet concluded.
I knew this card would hold our future and would again put Ellie and me in the middle of a new adventure.
SUZI:
“They will pay, I will make them pay.
The whispers of the wind blew.
The End
Donna M. Altman
Author of Within the Cards
Donna lives in Georgia near her two sons and beautiful granddaughter. She has a degree in Science but has always had a love for English literature. She views her writing as a form of meditation. When asked about her characters she said, “I have a passion for breathing energy and emotion into the mysterious characters that float within my imagination thus allowing them to live within the human world”. Donna hopes you have enjoyed reading Within the Cards, which is her debut novel. Presently, she is working on the sequel due out November 11, 2011.
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