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Jivana's Memoirs: 102

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“J!  Hiiiii”  it was Raven.  She was acting as my nurse.

“Hi” I remember smiling.

“You’ve been in a coma”

“Or an extended Savasana” said Zephr, who had a strangely pleasant demeanor.  She turned to Raven “Go get the others”.  She sat down next to me.  I was on bed covered in exotic pillows.

I looked at her.  My eyes felt big.  I didn’t really know what she was asking but then it came to me “The Great Party.  I remember being at The Great Party”.

“Do you know what happened?”

I laughed because it seemed ridiculous to me, although I wasn’t sure why I felt that way.  When I settled I just answered “No”.

“Do you remember being on the Lady Liberty?”  and she put one of her hands on top of mine and then made sure my other hand was touching my mother’s crystal.  

I remember feeling strained at first but then a foggy memory emerged.

“I see people around me.  I’m very high in the air.  I don’t know why everyone’s looking at me.  They look very frightened”  I closed my eyes, strained some more and continued “heat … fire…” and then I gasped.

“Yes.  I know it’s awful” and she looked away.

I started to run my hands over my body and face.  

“You had some massive burns but … you healed.  The truth is that you were saved before you got anything beyond repair”.

I felt terrified as she stared into my eyes.

“Cutter saved you and sacrificed himself”.

I could see her heart break all over again.  I could see she loved him.  I could see she didn’t realize it until he ran into the fire.

“He climbed up there and took your place.  He thought it was the only way we would be able to get you out and that we needed you”  Her jaw shifted from side to side, her eyes glassed but didn’t even blink. “He tied you a harness and you basically free fell.  When Old Law came to cut you down you were hanging there basically lifeless.  You had suffered head injury from when you were knocked out and the fall fractured some of your bones”.

“Old Law cut me down? Is he okay?”

“He got badly burnt but he’s alive.  You must share a connection with him.  He had actually left the party but he said he sensed something was wrong and came back.  With all the mayheim after the explosion, I’m not sure we would have found you in time had it not been for him”.

My brow was furrowed with sadness.  I squeezed her hand.  “Zephr.  Cutter … I’m so sorry”

“J, I’m sorry.  And I forgive you”  she started laughing almost maniacally.  “I mean for a moment I hated you.  I hated you with every f*ing atom of my being but then it’s like I internally combusted and I was washed over with a compassion I have never felt before.  My sorrow and hatred turned into a river of love as time slowed.  It almost matched the explosion that happened before your burning”.

“What explosion?”

“Oh girl … you must have been unconscious already when it happened.  It was eerily amazing actually.  The party was going great.  The energy was so so incredible.  The guys, after all this time new how to DJ and were throwing down an amazing set.  I swear everyone felt the energy rising rising rising”  Her eyes looked up and away as she was brought back into that moment.  She started to use her hands, reaching to the ceiling “it was like the best  build up of all time and right when the beat dropped” she dropped her hands and then raised them up powerfully again into the air and yelled “there was an explosion!” Her voice quieted  “I swear for a moment we were all reduced to shadow”. She paused for several moments as she accessed another memory “And it was so strange.  It happened so quickly really.  I was dancing and then I remember seeing people up on the mountain ridge.  Many of them.  Feathered silhouettes in the distance raising their hands at us … when I realized we were all still alive I remember clearly understanding that they had something to do with that”

Zento and Paris walked in.

“Ah Jivana you are up!” exclaimed in her sweet accent. “You’ve healed well, it’s a miracle really” she said.

“It’s kind of chaos right now to be honest with you.  We’re outlaws and on high watch.  We’ve all gone into hiding.There’s been some major announcements.  Mergers and the such.  Strange things are happening.  It’s as if we are finally seeing the true extent of what those trade agreements were really all about.  Environmental and human rights groups are being sued for profit infringement.  It’s crazy”.

But we have something to show you.  They showed me a video of a cavern of giant crystals.  This was part of Johnson’s confession.  He was privy to this information due to his position.  It was a classified.  The cavern existed just beyond the reservoir, so close to us this whole time.

“And Jivana I’m sorry.  I didn’t forget the crystal.  I was just being a bitch.  I might have caused everything to go wrong”.

“No … Zephr you can’t blame yourself for that.  You can blame yourself for some of the actions you consciously chose”.  I laughed at that and the settled.  “I don’t think that was within your control”.

“ So ahem.  Was everyone at the stage okay?

“Yes it was all a miracle.  I mean a lot of people got injured but it’s a miracle that …” Paris paused and looked at Zephr and then stopped.  I saw Zephr take in a deep breath, opening and expanding her heart. She just nodded.  “Yes well you know what I mean”

“Are the guys okay?”

Zoe walked in, followed by the guys “Yeah” she said smiling at me “They’re okay”.

My spirit warmed and bloomed.

“I remember now.  Magic was starting to happen.  I saw it with my own eyes.  We can’t give up.  We will restructure our plan”.

“We don’t have a plan” matter of factly, not in her typical combative style.

“Okay then … we’ll create a new one.  Where's the crystal?”
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