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Dragons in your closet - chapter 1
Dragon's in your closet: Chapter one In one bubble to the side of the space-time continuum Jeff shook his wings - hard. Even imaginary wings can make your back ache, especially when they are so finely imagined. Jeff's Choice had a fabulous imagination and a huge willingness to believe. She believed in angels. A lot.
So here he was – he had a name – Jeff; and a shape – man-angel; and a purpose.
Jeff's purpose was to keep Tava on track. Tava was his Choice. In the Assignments room he had loved the potential of her immediately and happily chosen her to guide. What he hadn't counted on was her iron hard will or her unrelenting ability to believe. Now, here he was an man-angel with bloody, great wings that made his imaginary back ache.
Jeff blinked slightly when Ashley popped in. Ashley grinned at him.
“Sore back, huh?”
“Yup. Since the last Sunday School class when she saw those posters. Your turn is coming.” he gestured menacingly at Ashley's gossamer wings. “So, who-body rattled your cage?” They shared a smile as Jeff quoted Tava's baby brother, Luca. “We have trouble.”, Ashley said dropping her smile. Jeff eyed her – waiting.
“That dratted mother of Tava's has gone and done it again. We were so close and now look!”
“Look at what?”
“Well, look!” snapped Ashley, gesturing in the air. Nothingness swirled a little and then they saw the mother. She was lying on her bed with a pillow over her face.
“What is she doing?” asked Jeff blankly.
“Haven't you been paying any attention? The silly woman thought she could go it alone and fired all her Help.”
“She did what?” Jeff interrupted.
“Now see – her head is a perfect center for the Ravenous Dark. We can't have that in the same house as our Choices!” continued Ashley.
“No, obviously not! Where is Gillian?”
“Out playing swords with Luca.”
“Well, she can't do that! Where is the mother's Help?”
“In limbo.” Ashely said sadly. “They can't do anything from there except witness. Like I said – the woman fired them. I just stopped by them and she did a really bang-up job this time. They are inside some impermeable case. I couldn't even talk to them. Besides they seem so bewildered.”
“No bloody use at all!” Jeff growled. “It is always like this. Trouble happens around our three and the mother's Help evaporates! Fat lot of good they are!”
“That is part of their design,” Ashley reminded him in a sad voice.
“Well, they are following their design a sight too bloody well, if you ask me!”
“That is why we choose this group. Remember? All the raw potential? All the possibilities? All the adventure?”
“Hummph.”
There was a small time of silence while they each considered the time-line and watched the mother toss under her pillow.
“She is in pain.” Jeff remarked.
“Yes.”
“Well, we just have to go fetch Gillian. This is no time for sword play. She has to be useful.”
“Technically, she is being useful. She is helping her Choice to understand the Light and Dark.”
“No time for that right now”, snapped Jeff irrationally. His huge wings looked ruffled. He fished out a cell-phone and left Gillian a message. “Good imaginings – these!” he remarked as he flipped it shut and tucked it away again. They both looked back at the mother.
“It's those bloody dragons!” Jeff growled.
“But they don't even know they are dragons.”
Well, what kind of feeble excuse is that? I won't stand for it! They have to go!”
“They can't. They are her Hereditary. That is part of why our Choices are so powerful. You know that.”
“I may know it, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. They still have to go.”
“They can't. We can't even Deal with them. They just singe my wings anytime I go near.”
“Who was their Help?”
“Oh, good question! I don't know, but they had to have Help, didn't they? Let's go look it up.” In the Records Space, that at first, seemed cosy and warm, the Record-Keeper was fussing with a digital library card and muttering under it's breath.
“So you want to know who their Help was, do you? Well, it won't help you.” It chuckled to itself about how clever it was and pointed them down a long, long space that loomed out of nowhere to their left. They thanked it politely. You had to be careful with the Record-Keeper. You never could tell.
The space seemed to get colder and colder the further they went, but there were no records as such. The walls flickered with images they couldn't quite see and their eyes began to hurt. Finally, the images seemed to come into focus. They were all pictures of Dragons. The family dragons.
“What? They Helped themselves?” Gillian sounded startled.
“No, each other. Dragons are not time-bound like our Choices. They can do that. Be there for each other. Mostly, though it looks like a fine mess! They are all so opinionated!”
“So – who exactly are they all?
“That Bronze is Tucky, and the three Greens are her daughters – Mary, Beth and Ann. Then over there we have the extras – another Elizabeth, the spotted one, and Moira. She is the red one. After that they were all cross breeds and wouldn't be time shifters.”
“So, they all just meddled in each others lives, as you please?”
“Pretty much. That is the way of Dragons. Very hard to rule or organize.”
“Whose is in charge of them?”
Jeff snorted, “In charge of them?! They are! A rule unto themselves. I should have thought of this before. It explains so much about that mother.”
“I suppose,” Ashley sounded confused.
“You don't think so? What about her independence? She is the ultimate “I-can-do-it” and “I-know-that-already” dingbat. Her Help is probably getting a nice rest in limbo!”
“Don't say things like that!”, exclaimed Ashley, shocked.
“Well, it is true. You think we have a tough go of it with our Choices? At least ours can hear us!”
They both stood there for a bit, looking at the interlacing lines between all the dragons.
“Talk about a Gordian knot! Where is that Gillian?” Jeff rattled his wings in annoyance.
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