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En-pathos: in passion or suffering, from the greek word empatheia. "If someone where to ask me if these 'gifts' are a blessing or a curse I would most definitely say its a curse. Dealing with my own life, emotions, memories and actions is already hard enough but adding onto that without any control and so suddenly is certainly a curse but the gods." Ember Hera is certainly an extraordinary or abnormal (however you see it that is), human being. Given a blessing or as she finds it, a curse, she is either way not normal. Even without her powers Ember has a past filled with sorrow and maybe pity when viewed by other people, losing her parents at the age of three and being raised by an aunt that is struggling herself is not easy. To add on to the fact she never got know her parents, she finds out her parents were murdered, brutally. A crime of passion maybe or just plain revenge Ember decides that she is going to catch the person responsible, but can she handle it? She's only 21 and still in college fighting everyday to be good student and study well, not only for a good job but for a job with great meaning to her. Will she be able to manage being a regular college student with these 'gifts' and trying to find her parents killer? This story is categorized as a fantasy-mystery-thriller, with crime. And don't worry I don't write books without romance, but in the end it shows views of different perspectives that humans have to go through, it tells us that humans experience every emotion differently and gives an understanding that we cannot judge a persons behavior without looking at their emotions and memories that lead to their actions. That's my goal anyways, hope you enjoy! -Destine Note: this book is called empathy as well.
Memories of them keep popping up in my head. These emotions are are so frustrating, just a single touch of someone else and I have to see their life too. Not just their life but their emotions and feelings. Human emotions are... how do I even put it into words?
My head is in the palms of my hands as I rubbed my eye's furiously. I haven't slept in days because of these emotions. They seem to radiate from everyone around me, why do I have to go through this?
Sitting up in my bed I can tell that Aunt Iris is asleep because that's the only time when the human mind rests and the emotions aren't as radiant, unless the person is having a nightmare. Thankfully for me Aunt Iris wasn't having a nightmare.
The emotions are like a magnetic field, the emotions radiate from the person and in this case I am the magnet. I feel like I'm being pulled towards the person and I can't help but look into their emotions. It puts me in awkward situations when I suddenly have my hand on someone who is going through deeper emotions and I'm paralyzed, not even being able to answer the person questioning me. I mean how would you feel if a random girl puts her hand on you're shoulder, especially when the person is annoyed and has a bad temper. Half the time I don't remember the person but only the memories and emotions they are facing. On top of that the whole thing just makes me forget so much. I even have to take medications for the memory.. so frustrating.
I was getting angry now but soon that anger turned into silent sobs in the night feeling lonely in this big world of emotions and feelings.
"Mom, Dad, how do I keep going when everything is so overwhelming...why aren't you here?", was the only words I uttered through my sobs that were kept silent scared that Aunt Iris might wake up in the next room.
