Telesa: The Covenant Keeper by Lani Wendt Young

Author:Lani Wendt Young [Young, Lani Wendt]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, young adult, Fantasy, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9781466253711
Publisher: Lani Wendt Young
Published: 2011-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

When night fell, I crept back home. Tired and spent. I had run for miles. But at least I was too exhausted to cry myself to sleep. My mother did not bother to even ask me about Daniel’s visit. Netta had probably briefed her. She merely mixed me an extra dose of the medicine I needed. Which I drank without hope. I didn’t believe it could really do anything for me anymore. And if I didn’t have Daniel, I didn’t care what happened now.

She regarded me quietly over breakfast the next morning. My black-circled eyes. The lank unbrushed hair. She wrinkled her nose at me. “Leila, this has to stop. This infatuation for a boy has got you completely in disarray. I’ve given you time to sort yourself out, but I think this moping has gone on long enough.”

I stared at her dully. She forged on. “You must realize that these emotions you are experiencing, they are but childish things. Once your power fully matures, you won’t be plagued with such trivialities. You will understand better our world and your place in it. It may be difficult to accept now, but trust me when I tell you that in a few short months, your feelings for that boy, they will be but a brief memory. You must embrace who you are and unchain yourself from all transient things. Men – all men, are unnecessary. Amusing, yes. And some even likeable. But they cannot even begin to comprehend what we are and what we are capable of. You must start practicing now to be less easily swayed by them.”

Her eyes contained nothing but kindness. She truly did believe what she was saying. And the jagged pieces of my heart longed to believe her. I didn’t want to love Daniel. I didn’t want to hurt like this. I didn’t want to feel like this. Like I could never laugh again. My dad had died and left me incomplete. Daniel had not only filled that void – he had carved a whole new world in mine. One where joy lived. And contentment. Completeness. How could I forget that?

I sat at the breakfast table and cried. Instead of hugs and empty platitudes, my mother took me outside. “Come, I think it’s time we began your training.”

So that was how my first day of learning to be a telesa started. We stood under a blue sky and she made me kneel. “Place your hands on the earth. Shut your eyes. I want you to tell me what you feel. What you can hear. What you can see.”

Because I was past feeling, I didn’t feel ridiculous. Instead, I listened. And beneath my fingers, I felt it. I heard it. A humming. Like breathing. Like a heartbeat. Like a being.

My eyes flew open and I jumped back. “What is that?!”

Her voice was triumphant. “It’s fanua. Earth. She hears you. She speaks to you. She has waited a long time for you. And she rejoices at your return, your awakening to your gifts.

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