think about it and she can give you the coordinates or directions to place you already know. She is kind of not a full time guardsman, but she loves this valley and these mountains so she will help. In time, after her family moves on or whatnot, I’m gonna guess she would move on with them. There are a lot of ghosts like that though. There is quite a bit of freedom of choice. That’s why we try to get the idea of who is going to finish a mission or join us on a mission. But the majority do one or the other.”
“ That guy dressed up like a pirate, what’s his deal?”, Scott inquires.
“ Ahhhh, that’s Captain Kale Finch. The most angry man to ever sail the seven seas, self proclaimed of course. Quite the story teller or in modern days, bullshit artist. A man quick with a sword and a pistol as well, but his uniqueness is quite different. The captain can control the atmosphere of the earth. He can make the winds blow as fast as he wants and in any direction. The ocean tides bend at the captains will. I suspect he had a little of this in the human realm, to be such a fine seaman. And the man with the lab jacket is Professor Tom McGee. Tom McGee was a physicist in his prior life. Tom, besides being a mathematical wizard, can stop time, but only for as long as he can hold his breath, in a way. I’m not sure how that works. He just holds his breath in and stops time. As soon as he has to exhale, time continues with its regular pattern. But he can only do it a limited part of the time. I think Tom’s personal record for doing so is three consecutive times in a twenty four hour period, which left him physically drained for days. But the professors knowledge in other things are quite useful too. He can manipulate atoms as well as your friend Rob, given human technology. I suspect if he was actually a mooner, he could have cracked that code to have humans enter our realm without the black matter infesting it, in given time. He’s pretty limited though without any moon DNA or our powers to wield it, for that matter, being mooners. But we here have plenty of time to tackle such tasks. Bear Claw, my old friend, can transfer from ghost form into animal. The root in him is so deeply formed into the ground that he in a sense became one with animals that dwell upon it. The ones in his prior life he protected so fiercely, he can now become. Look Scott, these changes are very subtle and you have a lot to learn about your new body and throw in the whole thing that you’re a mooner on top of that who can probably walk in both plains, needs to be aware of all the consequences that might come with that. You have to hone your skills for yourself. I am merely here to advise you in which directions to best support you on that particular journey of your new life. To teach you the ways, not only the old ways, but the new ways and the right ways to deal with these changes that your body will eventually come to understand and adapt to. Understand, Scott?”
Scott shakes his head in agreement. “Yea, Links, I think I get it. So when will rays of light shoot out of my eyeballs, man?”
“ To each and every person it’s a little different. A year, five, a day. You might do it on an accident once and then again, its like hiccups, in a way. They just come out of nowhere. But I think when you experience for the first time what it is, you will learn quickly how to form it and use it to your advantage.
“ I think you’re right about that black matter thing,” Scott says. “I somehow changed when I came down. There was parts, like in the cave, when Rob died. I uh, I well,” Scott looks down ashamed. “I killed a mountain lion before I even knew I was doing it.”
The Bigfoot grunts in agreement. “That is a whole other animal completely.” he said as his tone gets more serious. “That is primal. When you were connected with the wolf, you were
Patria L. Dunn (Patria Dunn-Rowe)
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