“Thank you for coming, and so quickly. A few of us have managed to keep the ancient ways and gifts alive. We are the healers and the spiritual centre of our communities. Even our own people do not know what the gifts are, nor how powerful they really are. To them, we have wisdom, and maybe at most, they believe that the heart of our poor planet and the ancestors talk with us and guide us. You, however, know differently and as The Seeker were indeed summoned.”
She looked up at me and stretched out her strong hands and took my hands between hers. She cocked her head slightly to one side as she looked at my face and then closing her eyes she connected with my heart-mind.
“You are The Seeker? Please, not even Adrian, my sweet Blondie, may know we have this ability. Not yet, and you know why that is. May I view a little with your permission before I tell you what has happened?”
I gave my permission and opened for her to check I was indeed The Seeker they had called upon for aid. She came in close and hugged me, and I put my arms around her. This covered what we were in truth doing within. Adrian smiled sadly and walked off into the other room. Now she was satisfied she let go and led me to sit in an alcove away from the main room.
“Thank you for coming, and so quickly. A few of us have managed to keep the ancient ways and gifts alive. We are the healers and the spiritual centre of our communities. Even our own people do not know what the gifts are, nor how powerful they really are. To them, we have wisdom, and maybe at the most, they believe that the heart of our poor planet, and the ancestors, talk with us and guide us. You, however, know differently and as The Seeker were indeed summoned.”
I looked at her.
“Your husband, too, is a wise one? Or was it you who sent for me? This is important, especially because of his present state.”
“He did, well, we both did as we needed more than the strength either of us possesses, and we did not wish to enlist aid from others. Is this what has caused this malady?”
I could feel fear coming up inside her and needed to stop it dead before it spread through her and thus through all.
“What may I call you, please, even if it is not your real name it will simply make it easier for me to talk with you, as there is much I need to learn fast, and there are many things I need you to understand before I start by going and finding where your husband is being held, and by whom.”
“Anika, Mini-mom, either of those will do, and my husband will recognise both if you need to convince the old goat to come back and stop trying to do everything himself.”
She smiled sadly.
“Alright Anika. Now I need to give you an insight into a few things and maybe it would be better if I could do this direct to your mind, if that is acceptable?
Nodding, she gave me her hands and we linked, but this time I did it while taking safeguards. I may not have Little One or others to stand ground, but I had Mina, and also Adrian, although the latter was not aware of it. Anika was leading me, she said before I went to save her husband, I had need through this realm to know a little about them and what they were. The planet and where they fitted into the cycle of all.
I felt us rising. Now we were in a massive cave, and in it, surrounded by stalactites and stalagmites, was a crystal clear, turquoise lake. The air was pure and somewhat icy. To the side were some doorways cut out of the rock, ancient and crude, but they were standing the test of time; inside one was a bank of crystals. The Akashic of the planet and her original, indigenous peoples. She touched three in quick succession, and a beautiful tune started, then a voice.
“Daughter, for you to have chosen these crystals, you are calling the ancient world to aid, and you have The Seeker with you. Is The Seeker ready, and do you believe from your heart that this one is capable of the correction that needs to be made? Answer daughter.”
Anika answered. Her voice strong and sure.
“Yes. I am.”
“Seeker. Come forward and let yourself be known.”
I stepped forward and opened my arms sideways to show I gave access for them, it to view that which it needed to. I felt the connection start. It was strong, but not violent; it was soft but not without strength. It touched on the central core of my being, but did not push, simply retreating again, as it had come. Something told me that more than one scan had been done, but I couldn’t pinpoint it. Suddenly, I was flying through the air and hurtling into the icy water backwards. So sudden had been the force I was completely off guard. I hit the surface and sank. Initially, like a sack of rocks, then as I allowed myself to morph, I became as one with it and stopped the descent. Now what?
“You had better change fast, or you will be a fish out of water. Aisha, Nee-shar-tar, also here known and prophesied as The Seeker.”
I was now in a deep basin of wet rock and not a puddle existed. I span around and then looked up, up; and up, till the top of the cave had stopped the water form from raising more. Now it was a giant head, the turquoise blue was changing colour and then from each orifice, sand and red dust started to flow.
“You see what they have done to me? Do you have the knowledge, Aisha? Do you Nee-shar-tar? Do you Seeker? To stop the Dark Lords and their agents from doing more. Do you have the purity of thought and heart to help those who need your help, even to go into the den of the foul masters to release the soul of our wise one? Do you?”
Now all around me I saw a beautiful, pristine planet with rolling hills, numerous beautiful lakes and large landlocked seas; I saw the people, I saw the creation of the next steps as they progressed through time. I saw the dark coloured ships overhead, the landing craft and the cyborgs. The cyborg and the AI robotic creatures. I saw the other races come from every species interested in the minerals. I watched slave labour, machines, the creation of the portals and the trading posts. I viewed, in horror, as her original people either became extinct or adapted and thus lived underground. I watched as mile upon mile of the surface was stripped off, literally working down to the very edge of the mantle, threatening to go beyond to the core part, which holds that which is the life-force of a planet. Closer and closer to the final breach. I also saw that the slag-heaps and discarded materials, once the ores had been removed, slowly, overtook the water supplies on the surface. Later, the industrial separation areas stood empty and like ghosts as they became obsolete with no water.
I saw this mining and devastation on eighty-nine percent of the planet, and I also saw a place which none were allowed to enter. Pristine, no rock taken, yet below the whole many miles below the original surface was what looked like a vast spaceship that had literally materialized down there and had no external entry or exit. Below that was a gigantic lake maybe ten times bigger than the massive craft.