Embody by Jamie Magee

she began to clean the kitchen.
    Rose and Libby came a few minutes later. I
felt how excited Rose was to travel; it was easy to see that she
missed it. We took our jeep to the opening near our house. Inside
the string, Landen carried Libby, and Brady carried Preston. We
didn’t have far to go; this dimension was only a ten-minute walk
from our passage. We stepped in and found ourselves on a
rooftop.
    “This will be a good place to watch before
we go down,” Rose said, walking cautiously to the edge. Landen and
I followed her. Brady stayed back, nervous that the kids would
fall. I knew they knew better.
    “OK, look down here,” Rose said, leaning
across the brick wall and looking down.
    The streets were busy; people were rushing
by, tied up inside themselves. I could see all of their Auras, and
they were different from the ones at home; the shapes were not
even, and some of them even had dark spots in them.
    “Do you see that man down there in front of
the store?” Rose asked. We nodded.
    The man had a dark gray Aura around him, and
the shape of the energy around him almost looked normal.
    “Now, you may think black would be a bad
color, but in truth it only means that he’s protecting himself; he
doesn’t want to be connected to anyone or anything. It could be
that he’s hiding something or that he’s afraid. Now, I can feel
him...can you two?” Rose asked.
    We nodded. He wasn’t afraid, he was
angry.
    “So, you can see he’s angry,” Rose said,
looking at Landen. “What is his intent?” she asked.
    “Revenge,” Landen said in a low tone.
    “Well, then, we can assume – and I mean
assume, but you can’t read his thoughts – that he’s angry at
someone and is protecting himself from the world and will seek
revenge. Now, we could watch him all day; if he does seek revenge -
or on a better note, makes peace inside himself - then his Aura
should change. An Aura is a mirror of the energy you put off,” Rose
explained.
    “What about that older man? Why does he have
dark spots?” Landen asked.
    Rose and I followed his stare. The man’s
Aura was close to him, and it was a muddy combination of several
dark colors. “I would say he’s sick; something inside his body is
not working properly. That’s usually what the dark spots mean. A
lot of the times, you can see the sickness before the person even
knows they’re sick,” Rose explained.
    “Is he dying?” I asked, feeling sorry for
the man.
    “The bodies we have now are all dying. He
can heal himself if he wants to, but I can feel his grief. If I
were to guess, I’d say he’s lost someone he loves and only wishes
to join them,” Rose said. I had a feeling she was right.
    “Can we show them how it moves?” Preston
said, coming to the side of the roof. Landen cautiously held out
his hand to block Preston from coming any closer to the edge. Rose
nodded.
    “Let’s go down,” she said, turning.
    Brady lingered around Landen. “If I
meditate, will I be able to see the colors?” he asked Landen.
    “I don’t know. We can try to teach you,”
Landen answered.
    Libby turned around and smiled.
    “Not yet,” she said, looking up at Brady.
She and Preston giggled a little, and we knew they’d seen something
in our future.
    “Rose, can you see the light that connects
me and Landen?” I asked as we stepped out onto the street. She
smiled and nodded.
    “Is it love?” I asked.
    “It is the bond of true love, the bond that
soulmates have.”
    “Why is ours so thick? Is it because our
love is so new?” Landen asked.
    Rose grinned. “Your love is far from new. In
my opinion, it represents how well the two of you are connecting as
one, the reason your gifts have merged.”
    “If there is something connecting the two of
you, maybe that’s why you can’t be apart,” Brady said, trying to
see it around us.
    “There’s a line that connects you and
Felicity, and you’re away from her,” Landen argued.
    I really didn’t care that it was painful