For a long while, no one speaks. The humming beneath the stones had softened, settling into the earth … and is sensed by them as a distant vibration …
The five friends stand quietly beneath the stars unveiling themselves in the blackened blue sky… with a full moon on its way.
Moire notices something.
“Where’s Caela?”
They turn to find her at the great circular stone in the center of the ruins.
She seems as though she’s resting.
Then Solina gasped.
Caela’s body begins to float just a few inches above the rounded stone slab.
She floats effortlessly, suspended between earth and sky.
“Caela!” Amara crieds out, taking a step forward.
Tahuya gently touches her arm. “Wait.”
Caela’s face is peacefully alive. Almost luminous.
She is somewhere else.
Caela is conscious but she is in a different place.
The air shimmers around her. A grove of ancient trees stretches toward the sky. Rivers of liquid light seem to move from the trees through gardens of unspeakable beauty.
Caela looks closer at the grove of Ancient trees … When she does, the trees shapeshift into a grove of ancient Dreamers. Some carry the love and wisdom of the Grandmothers. Some the love and understanding of the Grandfathers. Others radiate the fierce wonder of a child. All of the dreamers radiate something that has no name … and seem to glow from within.
They welcome her as though they have been expecting her all along.
One of the Ancient Dreamers approaches.
“What would you like me to dream for you?”
Caela feels her unexpected tears sliding down her face. She thinks about: Moire’s wonder and his willingness to question things, Amara’s courage, and her resolute to speak outload what others are afraid to. Tahuya’s quiet wisdom and deep respect for his ancestry, and how the earth seems to rhythmically move through Solina who has taken upon herself to be its guardian.
She remembers the people arriving … to join this revolution of freedom – and how the world seems to have lost its connection with itself – how the people have lost their sense of belonging …
Then she whispers, “I want a dream that helps us become who we are meant to be. A dream that helps people remember they are not alone.”
The Dreamer opens her arms. “Then dream with us. ” The other Dreamers join in and surroundCaela … becoming luminous and radiant. They seem to unfold like the petals of a great lotus opening.
Caela feels herself wrapped in a love so vast she no longer knows where she ends and where she begins … or even if she has a beginning or ending.
She has spent so much of her life trying to get things right.
Trying to be enough.
Trying not to disappoint.
The Dreamers ask nothing of her.
They simply love and dream together with and for her.
Back among the ruins, Caela’s floating body slowly descends onto the circular stone. Her eyes open, as the others are gathered around her.
Waiting.
Tears glisten on her cheeks. “The Dreamers dreamed for us,” she whispers.
“We will find our way. I don’t know how. But I know we are not alone.”
She looks at each of them in turn.
“We don’t have to try so hard.”
“We’ve been trying to do everything right because we’re afraid of falling short.”
“But what if…”
Her voice softens.
“What if love is not waiting for us at some finish line?”
“What if it has been with us all along?”
Music: All This Time, Lyrics by Lyn Marsh and Music with Mureka
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