Read The Theron Residency (Brides of Theron Book 4) Online
Authors: Rebecca Anthony Lorino,Rebecca Lorino Pond
Ceran nodded, “Yes sir.”
“How is your Uncle Samel?” Zirlo asked almost afraid of the answer.
“He died in the attack. His house was vaporized.” Ceran said softly.
“I am sorry to hear that. He was a good man.”
“Yes, he was.” He looked around at his belongings around the room and the box of Zirlo’s things on the floor near the desk. “Actually, I was coming to move my stuff.” He walked over to a table along the wall and started to pick up a picture of his family when he was just a boy. He ran his finger across the image to get rid of a speck of dust that settled on his mother’s face.
“Ceran, I want you to know that I knew when I met you that you were something special,” Zirlo said looking at Ceran under his brow. “I am sorry that they assigned me to command your ship. They actually gave me Zeb’s ship, but I thought that it would be best to take the Pyxis. She would be more familiar to me. Even though she has changed since I had left, she still feels the same. I can hear the same buzz from the gravitation simulators and the electricity generators. I always did love the old girl.” He caressed the desk as if remembering the adventures he had seen in this office. “As soon as this mission is over, I intend to retire. Just wanted you to know that the ship will be yours again soon.”
“Please don’t feel the need to retire on my account. I am thrilled to be here under your command. I’m sure that I will learn a great deal from working with you. I have learned much from working with your son.” He picked up a small figurine of a fighter craft he had made long ago, adding it to the collection of items he held in his arms now.
“Actually Ceran, you might just find that I will be learning a great deal from you. I want you to know that I am honored to have you on this ship.” He rose from the desk to empty his box on the side table and handed the empty box to Ceran. “Here use this for now, but don’t get too comfortable where you are going. You will be back in here before you know it.”
“Yes, sir,” Ceran said. He put the last of his belongings in the box and walked out the door to make his way to his quarters. The staterooms on the ship were pretty standard. All of them had similar basic furnishings and wall colors. If you wanted, you could furnish your quarters any way you wished. Laura brought their things this morning when she reported to sick bay. He walked into the bedroom to find the closets open and his uniforms hanging next to hers. She had put all the toiletries on the bed to be put away later. He started to unpack them and put everything in its place. If what Zirlo said was true, this would be the last time he would set out on a mission in this room. It was still an honor to be here even if his commander changed his mind.
Before setting out to see Laura in sick bay, he made two lunches and packed them into a small bag. He took one last look around. “You’ll be a commander soon,” he said to himself as he walked out the door.
Laura was doing an inventory of supplies. She picked up her communicator, “Aida, I am sending you a list of supplies we will need. Have them assembled and brought up in the next hour.” When she turned around, she gasped when she found Ceran standing behind her.
“Hungry?” Ceran asked.
“Starving! I have been so focused on these checklists that I finally found myself in the zone.” She replied and took the bag from him unwrapping the sandwiches that it contained and placing them on either side of the exam table. She took a swig of her water and said, “How did it go with Zirlo?”
“As well as it could, I guess,” he was trying not to seem so disappointed but failing miserably from the look of his face.
“This will be your ship soon enough. I overheard him tell Zeb and Zane that he plans to retire from the fleet after this mission,” she said just before she took a bite of her sandwich.
“He said so much when I went to collect my stuff from my…his office.” He bit into his sandwich so he wouldn’t have to talk about it further. She continued to smile sweetly at him between bites of her own.
“Hi Ceran, Laura. I hope I’m not disturbing you.” Zane said. A small woman with long white blonde hair that almost reached the floor followed behind him. Her eyes were the color of blue sea glass and her dress was white and simple but exquisite. Laura could feel the energy in the room increase as she walked further into the room.
“No, not at all. What can we help you with?” Ceran said as he put his sandwich down on the wrapper.
“I wanted to introduce you to Anora. She is a representative from the Interdimensional Federation of Free Worlds. She is an ally under Ashtar Command, who happens to be in charge of the planets that are located in Laura’s former solar system.” He turned to Anora while pointing at Laura and said, “This is Laura, the one you wished to see.”
Anora smiled sweetly at Laura, “I am from Agartha. You may not know this, but Agartha is located inside the inner space of Earth.” She must have noticed the look that Laura gave her because she quickly replied, “There really is an inner Earth. There may not be Hobbits and Orcs, but there are giants and many other people that live there. Your government has known about us for a while now and has selectively chosen to keep our identity a secret. You see you may know my people by other names. For example, the Scots call us Fae.” Anora chuckled, but it did nothing to put Ceran at ease.
Caran looked over to Anora, who had yet to acknowledge his presence. “What is your business here, Anora?” It was as if she finally noticed him sitting there for the first time. She wrinkled her brow considering him and carefully chose her next words.
“I have need of your mate. I must take her with me for specialized training. She’ll need what I must teach her on the mission you have ahead.”
“Zane, what is she talking about?” Ceran exclaimed.
“Ceran, you must let Laura go with Anora. It is necessary for our future relations with the Interdimensional Federation as well as with Ashtar Command. They are sending a fleet of ships to help us with our mission on Drylon.” What Zane said did little to put Ceran at ease.
“How long will I be gone?” Laura asked.
“Where we are going, time is not a factor,” Anora said cryptically.
Laura looked at Zane and then to him. “Is this an order, sir?” she asked Zane.
“Yes, Laura, it is. You are to report to the electronportation room as soon as you have packed up some of your belongings,” Zane said and turned to leave with Anora.
“Wait, do I get any say in this?” He felt the sickening feeling of his heart weighing heavily in his throat. “If she has to go, I am going with her.”
Anora looked sharply at him, “I am sorry, but this is something Laura has to accomplish alone. You will only prove to be a distraction. Don’t worry lover boy, she will be back to warm your bed before you know it.”
Laura looked as if she was thinking hard and put her hand over his. “It’s alright Ceran. She’s right. I am pretty sure that I should go with her.” Laura stood and looked over at him, “Why don’t you come with me while I pack my things.”
“That is a good idea, dear. You can explain it to him on the way.” Anora said as she turned on her heel and walked out into the hallway with Zane.
“What is going on here Laura? Do you know her? How do you know that you can trust her?” Ceran firing off questions at her rapidly, not giving her time in between them to answer them until she interrupted.
“Ceran, enough!” As she came to the door to their quarters. She placed her palm on the keypad and the door slid open. “She told me why I have to go with her telepathically. She said that I have forgotten how to access my innate gifts, the same healing gifts that I was given to awaken on Earth in order to help my home planet. She said that I have to learn how to access this ability before we go on this mission to free the prison camps, because there is an individual that will die without my help.”
“Did she say who?” Ceran said incredulously.
“Mattie, Brylon’s mom,” Laura said as she removed a bag from the closet and put in a couple of uniforms and a nightgown. “But, she said there would be many others. Zane is only equipped to do so much. I have the necessary skills to save these people. Because of that, it is my duty.” Ceran sat slowly on the bed rubbing the palm of his hands against his temples as she went to gather her toothpaste and toothbrush as well as other things she may need.
The communicator on his uniform beeped, “This is Ceran,” He spoke into the transmitter.
“Ceran, please come to my office as soon as you can. I’ve received word from the Interdimensional Federation of Free Worlds. Apparently, they need to take you with them for special training.” Zeb said.
“I’m intrigued, I am on my way to the electronportation room to send my mate away. I will be in your office after.” Ceran tapped his badge to disconnect and looked at Laura, “Did she tell you why they needed to train me?”
She smiled, “No, but it seems that we are both needed. I trust her Ceran. She feels…I don’t know…kindred to me. I feel like I know her from somewhere or sometime in my life. I want to go with her.”
Ceran shook his head and exhaled forcefully. “I trust you, not her. If you are determined to go, I won’t stop you. Just promise me that you will be very careful. I don’t want to lose you. You’re a part of me now that I can’t replace. Promise you will come back to me.”
She stroked his face with her fingertips and ran them through his hair clutching the back of his neck. “I know I will be back. You are a part of me, too.” She pulled him down to her lips and kissed him with a passion that would hopefully last with him for a couple of days. “I’ll be back, I promise.”
He reached for her bag and grabbed her hand. “Well, I guess we should go.”
She said nothing, only nodded as they made their way down the hall.
“All you need to do is have a conscious thought and send it out. It really is relatively easy. By the time you leave and rejoin your mate, you will have mastered speaking this way to whoever is open to receive you. If you wish, or if it makes you uncomfortable, I can talk aloud?”
As if receiving Laura’s answer, she spoke using her voice, “Come with me.”
The glowing circular gate that was embedded into a rock wall became brighter as Anora approached.
She closed her eyes before it and a couple of seconds later a symbol appeared. It was a closed circle crossed with lines that connected north to south and west to east. Essentially, it was a plus sign inside of a circle. “This is the symbol for earth. I need to clarify where we need to go so I will add a second and third symbol.” She closed her eyes again and two circles spaced evenly in a triad underneath the symbol for earth. The first one was filled with 6 lightning bolts crisscrossing in the center of the circle, and the second was simply three dots that looked like a clover without a stem. “The fourth symbol at the bottom will represent where we are coming from.” She closed her eyes and a fourth circle enclosing a heart with an infinity symbol crossing over it appeared. The symbols radiated brightly until they were absorbed by the stone and the stone became translucent as they began to fade. Inside the gate, a substance that rippled like water replaced the smooth stone that used to be inside frame.
As they walked out of the room that held the stargate, they entered an enormous lobby of sorts. The marble pillars were twice the size of the largest person there. That was impressive because many of the people standing around her stood 10 to 15 feet tall. She could see the auras of spiritual beings all around her but couldn’t make out their physical bodies. She assumed that they must have been ghosts. Anora said, “You are very perceptive, and can tell that you know that there is more to be seen here. You can see their auras surrounding them, but not their bodies. They are not ghosts or spirits of the dead like you have observed on the surface, but fifth-dimensional beings. Most of them are elementals. If you can learn as much as I hope to teach you, you will see them before you leave here.”
They walked out on gold paved streets and Anora was right. The streets were filled with the sound of people singing, dancing, and laughing. The golden light of the sun as it bathed her in warm golden light. Was it a sun if it was in the middle of the earth?
Anora said, “The core of the earth is our sun. It doesn’t beam down radiation and ultraviolet rays like the one you have on the surface, it radiates electromagnetic energy that makes much of everything you see here possible. All of the electricity here in the inner earth is free, just like the food. We even manufacture our own clothing by thought. You see, being isolated here in the inner world away from all the negativity and destruction you see on the surface of the planet helped our people evolve at a much faster rate. However, the people on the surface are about to awaken. It’s one of the reasons you are here with us at this time. You signed a soul contract to be incarnated to help with the ascension process of Earth, but the Theron people took you before I could awaken you. We saw them hiding behind the moon and were ordered by Lord Ashtar, not to interfere. We are only allowed to influence what goes on around us, you see, never enforce.”
They approached a large metallic hovercraft. It could hold over 60 people if necessary. The ramp came down and they entered. No one else was on the craft. It almost seemed a waste of fuel and energy to transport them alone. Anora said, “Here we respect Mother Earth and we only use renewable resources. There are rules here that we must go over before you leave this craft. We fly these transport vehicles using intention. You just think where you want to go and they take you there. No coordinates needed.” The hovercraft took off at an alarming speed and Laura fell back into the seat. Anora didn’t even flinch at this but remained standing.
“In Agartha, we are strictly vegetarian. Everything we eat comes from the highest energy sources. We grow all food organically and use no pesticides or fertilizer. We respect Mother Earth and she gives us food in abundance. You may have noticed that many people here hover over the ground. This is because grass and stones are alive just as we are. We never pick flowers or cut down trees. There are specially trained individuals that do that for us using special blessings and requests to gain the plant’s permission. We respect all living things. All living things, no matter how small, have a soul. Even the tiny bugs, spiders, and the tiny grains of sand on the beach. With that said, I know that you have many questions and I would be happy to answer them now if you wish.”
“Why am I here?” Laura said softly.
Anora paused just a moment to see if Laura would respond, but when she said nothing, Anora continued. “Our people were fortunate to have escaped the surface of the planet before all of that happened. The virus did not affect us here inside Mother Earth. Here in the inside of the planet, we are still immortal. We live just as she lives. Everything from the small crystals of dirt to the pollen in the air we breathe is a living, existing, entity with soul memories of its own. Everything is respected in its own right. The ability of dirt and pollen is necessary in order to grow the crops that become the food we eat. The presence of the Source of all Creation lives inside everything no matter how insignificant it may seem. You make your own abundance when you come to realize that the God of all Creation, the Source of all Creation, actually exists within each and every one of us. Because of that knowledge, you can manifest the abundance and unconditional love for all things around you.”