The Boy Who Disappeared Clouds by Block Lawrence

Author:Block, Lawrence [Block, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Lawrence Block
Published: 2013-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

WHEN SHE STOPPED the car, on a country road just past the northern belt of suburbs, the perfect cloud was hovering almost directly overhead. She opened the door for Jeremy and found a patch of soft grass for them both to sit on. “See that cloud?” she said, pointing. “Just watch what happens to it.”

Sure, she thought. Nothing was going to happen and Jeremy was going to be convinced that his teacher was a certifiable madwoman. She breathed deeply, in and out, in and out. She stared hard at the center of the cloud and visualized her energy as a beam of white light running from her Third Eye chakra directly into the cloud’s middle. Disappear, she thought. Come on, you. Disappear.

Nothing happened.

She thought, Cory, damn you, if you set me up like this to make a fool of myself—she pushed the thought aside and focused on the cloud. Disappear, disappear—

The cloud began to break up, crumbling into fragments. Relief flowed through her like an electric current. She set her jaw and concentrated, and in less than a minute not a trace of the cloud remained in the sky.

The other clouds around it were completely undisturbed.

She looked at Jeremy, whose expression was guarded. She asked him if he’d been watching the cloud. He said he had.

“What happened to it?” she asked.

“It broke up,” he said. “It disappeared.”

“I made it disappear,” she said.

He didn’t say anything.

“Oh, Jeremy,” she said, taking his hand in both of hers, “Jeremy, it’s easy! You can do it. You can make clouds disappear. I can teach you.”

“I—”

“I can teach you,” she said.

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