they appeared. Of course, he refrained from demonstrating his powers to us, and it was not physically possible.
Leia was the last to complete the circle. She was 29 years old at the time, but looked older. However, the girl was not shy by character but not relating to her appearance. Being overweight, she compensated with charm. Everyone loved Leia. We adored her for sense of humor, the ability to support at any moment and a smile that could cheer everyone up. She had the powers to walk through walls, to return to the past (but not change it) and to foresee the near future thanks to short visions lasting from one second to several minutes. She demonstrated her powers: guessed who would say exactly in a couple of minutes. It happened so.
Finally, it was turn of 27-year-old Ema. Ema commanded natural phenomena (caused precipitation, winds, heat and cold), moved small objects over distances and possessed the gift of suggestion, but only for a short period. What would I be able to do? What would I be capable of? This was still to be found out after I got harmony with my energy. So far, it seemed to me chaotic and uncontrolled movement of particles. Since only Ema was immune to my unbridled powers during mentoring, the others decided to leave after a short conversation to give us space to train and not get hurt themselves. Saying a warm goodbye, we agreed to see one another again soon.
8. My Nature
“Now it seems to you that the continuous chaos has been inside. It’s like the energy flows randomly through whole body, and there is no end to it. In fact, this is a natural process. You just don’t know how to manage your own powers yet”.
Ema was standing in front of me a few feet away looking straight into my eyes. I couldn’t concentrate, thinking only about her: how beautiful, smart and brave she was. She was driving me crazy.
“How did you know that you would be my mentor”?
“It just happened. Of course, it is impossible to explain. You’ll understand when you have completed the initiation, and such questions will disappear by themselves”, she replied in a tone as if she expected to hear it. “Well, enough questions for today! Let’s get down to work”!
Ema moved away, still maintaining eye contact. Suddenly, a lot of small and medium-sized objects (various debris, fragments of bricks, glass, bags and so on) in the blink of an eye rose from the ground and began to whirl in a blizzard above us in the air. That lasted for a couple of minutes before all this junk began to take some forms, creating images of animals or words. Here was a running herd of gazelles, which gradually turned into a flock of flying cranes, and those in turn transformed into the words “no violence”. Here was a tornado swept by, sweeping away everything in its way, later it became a couple dancing waltz.
“Wow!”. I couldn’t help but exclaim.
“Now it’s your turn. Try to support my energy without dropping a single object”, my mentor shouted, passing me the baton.
I tried to get into a comfortable position, stretching my arms at my sides like a soldier and clenching my hands into fists. I closed my eyes and focused on the energy, but various thoughts crept into my head, preventing the magic power from being released outside. After a long time of trying, something started to come out. Feeling Ema’s energy, I intercepted objects floating near the ceiling and even circled them a little in the air, but then they fell down with a roar in the form of rain. If it were not for the protective shield in the shape of an aura, which my mentor had previously set around us, we would not have gotten away with injuries.
“Yeah,” Ema mumbled thoughtfully, stroking her chin. “It’s going to be harder than I thought. Apparently, telekinesis is not your thing. Now you have to learn how to be able to push all else from your mind in the first place. They will never let your power be released, instead will keep it inside like in captivity”.
“But how do I do it? It doesn’t make any sense. I can’t stop thinking at all, can I?” I got confused.
“Everything is possible if you want that, especially for Bernauses with their limitless potential. You need to put a barrier between your energy and emotions so that they don’t overlap. Try to understand, Emilius, if you, by using your powers, let your feelings take over, then everything that happened to you during this time will be repeating constantly. It’s enough one emotional thought to destroy everything around you, even that one what is dear to you. If you fail to contrast magic and feelings, do not draw a clear line between them, you will never be able to control your energy, and it will spill out along with your negative emotions. Magical energy and mental state are not the same thing. They should function independently of each other”.
Ema instructed me like a teacher, putting her hands on her hips and pacing from side to side. She went on after a little pause: “Whenever you use your powers, you must shut your feelings. And vice versa. It is on this that we will be focusing our efforts, and the powers will take the necessary form themselves”.
“How much time do I have left?” I asked uncertainly, not really wanting to know the answer.
“You will pass a certain stage when you feel harmony with your own energy. You will feel ‘you and it’ as an inseparable wholeness. This feeling is unmistakable. Then your former appearance will return. Everyone has their own transition period in duration. No one will be able to determine the exact time. In general, if we count the average period, there are two or three months give and take. At this time, you stop contacting everyone around you except me”.
Such news both pleased and disappointed me. The thought that I would have to spend several months in isolation was depressing, but the fact that I would not part with Ema made me happy to some extent. Generally speaking, I was sad and happy at the same time.
“Before we finish for today, let’s do a little experiment. Do you want to see all your power with your own eyes? Remember that powers do not depend on the sex, but they affected by genes and both mental and personal characteristics. In addition, there is no black and white magic. There are Bernauses who use absolutely neutral magical energy for their own good and or bad purposes”.
“What will happen to those who fail to put a barrier between magic and emotions?” I thought I already knew the answer to this question.
“They will be eliminated,” replied Ema firmly, as if she herself took part easily in such an action. “We do not need uncontrolled individuals who are unable to put their temper under control”.
I wanted to ask something else, but my mentor beat me to it:
“Release your energy and look at it from the inside.
“Won’t I destroy anything here?”
“Release its non-destructive part. You know what I mean”.
“Yes, I knew. I closed my eyes and focused on my powers. I don’t know exactly how much time passed, but when I woke up as if from meditation, a sight of amazing beauty appeared before me. I was floating in the air. My eyes were burning with a bright fire, and the energy, emitting heat of all shades of red, spread like a Magellanic cloud through the premises of the former factory cafeteria, which became the Universe for a moment. Below me down there Ema stood dumbfounded by protection of the aura. There was extreme admiration in her eyes. With the help of telepathy, she conveyed a thought to me (the first such attempt of our mental contact):
“Now I know what you are. You are the one who is destined to destroy and create”.
