Celestial Ambulance by Ann Matkins

Author:Ann Matkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: life, death, afterlife, survive, survival, ambulance, paramedic, rescue, spirit, spiritual, angel
ISBN: 9781907203541
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2012
Published: 2013-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

A Conversation With Rufus

In the Gardens of Remembrance there was always a place available for quiet reflection. It was at moments like this that Ben fully appreciated how blessed his life was compared with what it had been before. Earth had been a hard school, where he’d never felt he quite fitted into the scheme of things as he’d hoped; too many separate threads, and the difficulty of tying them together. Back then he had been a round peg in a square hole. Now, at Station One Two Zero he did fit in, loving the work he was doing and the people he worked with. Yet he instinctively knew there was something missing in his life.

Would education fill that hole? He glanced around, seeing vague, wispy shapes coming and going, then solidifying as form recognised the reality it inhabited, atoms and molecules adjusting to a different vibration. People bowed their heads to speak quietly with each other, bending down to talk to the children who joined their throng. Humanity was comfortable in these surroundings. This was, after all, the zone of comfort and love shared.

Ben became wistful, thinking of his Linda. She worked as a carer in an old people’s home, a job she loved and was dedicated to. He was trying to picture her at her daily round, having a joke with her patients, listening to their stories, making them feel comfortable in what for some was an alien world; a step too far from what they had known until then. Her affinity with the elderly was, she had often reminded him, the reason she had decided to take the job. He knew that as a qualified nurse she could have taken work elsewhere, but the retirement home was where she felt happiest.

Ben wondered if she might appear in front of him now. Was it even night-time in England, when she would be dreaming? He knew it was possible for people to visit the gardens when they were asleep. He stared in front of him, waiting, just in case, and for a brief, shimmering moment he thought he saw her smiling face turned towards him, a hand lifted in recognition, and then she was gone. “Wishful thinking?” he asked himself.

He knew when he visited her, that Linda was able to sense his presence. She always turned her head when he came close, as if she had heard a door opening and was ready with a welcome. Sometimes she said his name out loud, confident he was there, though she could not have explained to anyone how she was so sure, only that she felt a warm glow deep in her heart, and then he’d be in her thoughts. It was at such times that it seemed as if he’d never gone away. He could be right there in her kitchen watching her cook a meal or doing the washing up, and she would share her day, keeping him up-to-date with the gossip.

“Susan’s got herself into a bit of

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