Chapter 113

If Catalina was ever wondering if any of the words the priestess said were true or not, now she had no doubt. The priestess just touched the most sacred, scary, dark and painful wound and saw what she never shared with the others.

The barren that she thought less of herself, the reason she had always wondered why she survived and her brother not and now she learns that it was the universe protecting her to pay a karmic debt. The reason she started training was how to fight and protect herself and after healing from her trauma she started dancing career to find peace and calm at the same time. Something else to think about, because she was scared. If she did not think about dancing and steps, then she would repeat the kidnapping episode. Those who wanted to harm her father, a distinguished general in Spain for fighting for the country and stopping corruption and injustices.

She hadn’t had any nightmare, life went on great, but the moment she stepped foot in this country, Almor, she encountered a violent scene in front of her that triggered her unconscious memory to go on fight-and-protect mode.

And now, the priestess of a foreign country was reading her soul, exploring it like no one ever. Witch was worse than the deepest of the oceans.

Words that brought old, painful memories of the time she and her brother were kidnapped.

\-“How… how do you know. how can you tell?” – she questioned with trembling lips and tears never stopping making her eyes bloodshot red in the process.

Zuleica was even more shocked. She thought that people living in Europe had an easy and better life, no drama or traumas to heal, but seeing Catalina in this state made her aware that she had never had any personal interactions together with her. She never questioned her about her personal life. She never had a chance to get to know her better or why she was always so attracted to her, always feeling like she knew her for a lifetime. And now it all made sense. They were together in a life before that.

\-“I can make you see it too if you are ready too.” The priestess waited for her improvement before she rose to her feet to get a cup of some herbal tea that he made in that moment.

\-“This will make you keep your strength as we would leave this dimension to visit together other ones.” The priestess said to her; while handing her the cup witch she made for her in no time.

Catalina took it and had a taste. The tea was not warm or cold, not bitter or sweet and made her wonder her with her dried tears:

\-“I thought it would be bitter.”

\-“The life itself is bitter enough in order not to have to add more to it.” The priestess answered to her in a wise and calm tone.

“Now lay on the ground, trust me you will need to rest your body while you have your visions.” and Catalina did as she was told. Zuleica was still beside her mouth saying that she will be near her all the time.

First the priestess tried to calm her in her soothing voice, reminding her the wonderful she was and all the good deeds she did while being in there. Her voice was like cookies and milk tasting sweet words in her ears, making Catalina momentarily forget what she learned some minutes ago.

For a moment she slipped in a deep sleep only to open her eyes, seeing herself surrounded outside of this world, surrounded by millions of shining stars.

What an experience she thought to herself. There it was an inner piece that made her forget who she was, what her name was, whether she ever existed or not. She could not see her form, only what surrounded her around. She turned her head around, but it was all the same, the surrounding environment was the same, millions of shining stars, yet she could not place herself to be consciously aware of it.

Suddenly out of nowhere a tall woman, with dark hairs and a red cover on top of it showed out of nowhere, wearing some light clothes with a gold belt around her torso, holding a gold sphere in her right hand and a stick to her left hand. She wondered what it was that.

\-“Follow me child!” she heard her distant voice, but she could not place if she understood what she meant or wanted, but she saw her retrieving figure and instantly it felt the energy to follow it, running between all that endless space.

Soon all around started to shape itself differently. There was no longer a dark space surrounded by millions of stars, but instead a ground, a solid one. It was surrounded by different colors and shapes. She could not distinguish her shape of the earth and the air surrounding her. Making her smell and feel the air playing around her. And an object in the sky shining and making her feel warm, all this new feeling were starting to form some basic knowledge on her.

She was on earth, on an open ground on a beautiful sunny day with other animals around her. Now her eyes could distinguish birds, ants, dogs, chickens and every other form of animal. And their noises.

Somewhere ahead of her she catches some words that she was not making any sense to her.

\-“Still keeping that stray dog you old men? You are making yourself and us as fools in front of everyone. When have you ever seen any gypsies in our tribe raising dogs?

Get rid of him before I do it for us.”

\-“You will not touch my dog, you ungrateful women.”

But the commotion started growing distant as she saw to living forms to get away from her. She saw it strange how they could so much be in a similar shape to the first image she saw while she was surrounded by the stars earlier.

And then she felt her body, the ground touching it, the air surrounding, the noises the shapes and forms, the colors. It was all strange and extremely familiar to her, and yet she could not put a definition on all of this.

Suddenly she felt this urge to move to come around. And she did so. She ran and came around, sometimes following a butterfly or just the bird’s song until she runs free near a river nearby.

Another sudden feeling as she could taste from the fresh running liquid. I made her curious as she ran near it and instinct, she got close to tasting it. Cold and refreshing.

With every drop she was swallowing she recognized the thirsty feeling, and this water was helping her feel better and then when she was full, she started to see it and play with it, but suddenly she saw her own form, a pawn playing with the water.