Embody by Jamie Magee Page A

for
me to be away from Landen; I knew that it meant he would always be
connected to me - with me.
    We walked through the streets, watching all
the colors. Rose hesitated in front of a construction site. We
leaned against the wall and watched the men work. It was easy to
see who was in charge: a large man in a yellow hat. His Aura was
almost completely red; apparently, he wasn’t happy with the work
one of his workers was doing. He walked over to a smaller man who
was pouring cement and began to yell. I heard Preston and Libby
giggle. As the man yelled, his Aura seemed to dwindle, and his
energy was leaving him. I could feel the fear coming from the man
he was yelling at; his fear rose, and his green Aura seemed to
shrink.
    “See? They give it away,” Preston said,
looking up at Landen.
    “Preston is right. When we’re angry or
afraid, it depletes our energy, and we give away what belongs to
us,” Rose explained.
    “Can you get it back?” I asked, concerned
that the people I wanted to help had no energy of their own.
    “Love brings it back. A calm mind can, too,”
Rose said.
    “Love is pretty,” Libby said.
    Rose nodded, then we walked on through the
streets. We settled at an outside diner in the center of the town.
Preston and Libby played around a water fountain that was near the
edge of the sidewalk.
    As couples walked by, I could see a white
line connecting them, connecting their children.
    “You see, love is not just in our dimension.
When you see people connected in a dimension, you can consider them
blessed. It’s not easy to find a pure love. If we couldn’t travel,
our dimension wouldn’t exist by now,” Rose said, watching a young
couple pass by us.
    “How come there’s a glow that connects Brady
and Felicity to Allie, but not one that connects us to our
parents?” Landen asked.
    Brady looked up, surprised by what he
heard.
    “As Allie grows into an adult, that line
will lessen as she comes into her own. If you look really close,
you’ll still be able to see a very faint line that connects you to
the people that you hold the closest to your heart,” Rose said.
    My eyes fell across Landen and Brady, and I
could see the faintest of lines joining them. Rose followed my
stare.
    “They are the only ones you can still see it
around without having to really focus,” Rose said to me. Landen and
Brady looked at us curiously.
    “You guys have one around you,” I said to
Landen.
    Landen’s eyes looked all around him and
Brady. “I don’t see it,” he said, a little disappointed.
    “Good. I don’t want to be connected to you;
it’s bad enough people call me Landen,” Brady said, teasing
Landen.
    “Watch,” Rose said, reaching for my arm.
    I looked up, and across the street I saw a
couple talking. Between them, I could see a faint red glow; it
seemed to spread through them, and their Auras grew. “That’s love,”
Rose said. I could feel them, and she was right; they were falling
in love.
    “Love...kindness…it builds you. The more you
give, the more you receive. The bad emotions take energy from
you.”
    “Libby!” Landen screamed.
    I looked up. As if in slow motion, I saw
Libby stumble as she circled the stone fountain - falling directly
into the path of moving cars. Landen stood and reached his hand
out. I don’t know how he did it, but he grasped her energy and
pulled her back. Her body suspended in mid-air, then in a flash she
was in Landen’s arms and he was sitting again. It happened so fast,
no one around us even noticed. Our hearts were racing. As calm as
he could, Preston came over to Libby and took her hand. They then
sat down at the table next to us. Even Rose was covered in
shock.
    “How did you do that?! How did you do
that?!” Brady asked over and over again, trying to get an answer
from Landen, but he didn’t know; he was scared and in shock.
    Preston and Libby were giggling to
themselves. Preston then looked up at Landen and said, “All you did
was pull her energy.