19 The OId Man in the Cellar

She happened to pass by in an unknown place. She saw a small old wooden house beside an unknown road. In her curiosity, she went straight to the door and tried to see through a small opening of the wall whether someone was there inside it. But she saw no one but empty dusty floors and cracked chairs inside it. She just pushed the door and went in bravely. The house seemed abandoned a long time ago. She went around and saw a small patch below the floor. There's a narrow doorway going downward, under the wooden dusty floor. She never stopped until she could discover what's in it.

She went on and on using the narrow wooden stairs winding through the underground until she had reached to the very bottom of it.

She checked every corner and saw a very old man with his head covered with long white wavy hair.

He was spinning something, it's like a spinning wheel with a thread on it. She heard him talking about something she never understood at first. He was waiting for her for a long time. He knew he'd come at that place sooner or later. He turned his aged face before her and looked solemnly at her bright big eyes. He had told her some strange words she hardly understood. All she had heard or understood was evil spirits were everywhere and need to be stopped.

He taught her how to recognize and how to feel the presence of evil. And also taught her how to control, and to cast them away back to where they came from.

She saw many bats and strange creatures flying towards them. And those are only one of the forms of dark elements in the world, they were many of them in variant forms that were all able to control and take over any human mind and body.

The old man then uttered a prayer and cast them all away back to where they're belong and he never let them come back again. And the herd of those strange awful face creatures suddenly cried with fear, flew fast away from them and faded from their sight.

She witnessed everything, and she'd learned and understood what he's trying to tell her.

He'd awaited her for a long time to come so that he could teach her and told her about her real identity, who she was and the purpose why she's here in this world.

They had talked something that only the two of them could comprehend. Then they bade farewell to go on through their separate mission.

She went upstairs and went out of that old house. She went on to her daily tasks as if no extraordinary thing had happened. She passed by in a park, and just found a seat. She enjoyed watching the fun rides with the laughing kids and swinging adults. Then suddenly, in a few distances, a man trembled uncontrollably and seemed possessed by something. And also another one trembled also near her, they have the same condition. Both of them seemed possessed and no one could control it.

She laid her hands to the man near her and he had stopped trembling. He fell silent and calmed. She has no idea what to do and how to do it but it just happened in an instant.

She, then, hurriedly walked fast away from them. She raised the palm of her hands and looked at it. Her palm had changed color, it turned golden with a number marked on it. In time, she thought to herself, maybe she could discover what's the meaning of it. She thought she could train herself and help others using her hands as a healer and using her eyes to see things that were invisible to the others. She wanted to help; to train herself; to be able to control and block those strange creatures in spreading evil in this world and to cast them back to the deepest darkest corners of the spiritual world, the darkest place where they belong.

-The Dream by Anne Scribble

11-22-2018

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