The Book of Life " Mama's Séance " Chapter 15

"Well girls, I thought we could do something fun today! Instead of having grownup talk let's have a Séance, and I will be the MEDIUM and you can be my Ghosts!" Astraea said "Oh we love the ideal mom; do you know how hard it is to get Christians to play with us? Ha-ha!" mom laughed too, "ok it's a deal, let's go downstairs in the dining room, we can close the curtains and darken the room, get some candles and have our ghost talk!" I had to ask the question "You just want us ghost there, right? You don't want real ghost, do you?" Mom laughed and said, "Just you my dear, no real ghost are allowed, ha-ha!" "Ok it's a deal!"

Mom continued, "Ok ghost children I summon you to my table" we all made ghost noised "Woo, Awe, Oh!" Mom couldn't help laughing but tried to be serious "Ok you little ghost, we have a few simple rules, I will ask questions, and you can say Yes, No, or Maybe. After you made your choice feel free to say whatever is on you mind, ok?" Isis said in a haunting way "Yes! We understand and we have arrived! woo!" Mom couldn't stop laughing "Very good Isis you are fast learners ha-ha! Now let's see? Are you really humans" Astraea said "No, we are ghost!" mom laughed "This game is going to be harder than I thought! I mean are you girls really human?" Aphrodite smiled and said "Maybe? We don't know ha-ha! I mean we have memories of our short life here with our parents, but Isis has memories as far back as 4365 years ago in the year of 2350 BC in Egypt when people began referring to her as Isis. I'm younger, my memory only goes back to 350 BC in Macedon, where Philip II was ruler of the area, and Astraea was the last Goddess to leave the Earth during the dawn of the Iron age, when humans began to be wicked, her parents were Goddess Eos from Dawn, and God Astraeus from Dusk. That is why she loves sunrises and sunsets so much! She is a beacon of light and our last hope for humanity to survive! If she gives up hope on the humans all is lost!" Astraea smiled and said "Don't worry mom, I'll never give up on hope, I mean wooooo!"

Mom was speechless! "Ok wow! um let's see, did you really run away from home in 2006?" Isis said "No, we didn't run away from home we ran to our destiny in 2006, when ShadowFire gave Astraea (The Book of Life)" Astraea laughed and said, "You forgot to say Woooooooooo Isis!" We noticed it was really hard for poor mom to concentrate ha-ha! "Isis and Aphrodite ghost are you really 17 years old and is Aphrodite really 16?" "Oh, I got this one! Physically we are teenagers, but emotionally we are a wreck ha-ha! In our world there is no time so age has no meaning to us Girls, um Ghost! ShadowFire swears we are part of the 12 tribes of brothers and sisters of Heaven that greet new arrivals, because he never seen our kind of love before! When he briefly died on September 6 of 1986, He saw our complete happiness and unconditional love we had for him when he came back home to us! You see, ShadowFire is a sacred and beautiful creature, but everyone is sacred and beautiful too, that is the beauty of love! It was also our love and innocence that inspired him to start writing The Book of Life, so hopefully people can have hope and be inspired to embrace love with all their hearts too! Isn't that right Sunshine! Ha! Thought we'd forget about you my beautiful person? NEVER!"

"This is all so beautiful ghost children wow! Do you really believe people's lives are in danger especially Lucy's life?" Aphrodite eagerly answered "Yes! ShadowFire is going to have to battle the demon with a sword as a building burns down with Lucy in it, but it is my hug that is going to save her and capture the demon!" Mom continued "Did you know we were searching for older children to adopt, because we know how hard it is for teens to find loving parents willing to adopt them?" "Yes, we did mom and we're very thankful!" Isis said with gratitude! Mom gently asked, "Do you feel guilty that you deceived us?" Isis answered this one! "I don't think we necessarily deceived you, because we love you and we are so grateful to be here, but if we told you the complete truth, would you really believe us? We have so little time with you that it would be ashamed if we wasted one moment of time from your doubts of us!"

"Do you want to stay with us forever?" Mom's question was for me! "Yes mom, we want to stay with you forever!" Mom continued "Are you going to stay with us, forever?" Darn that question is for Isis "No, we can't!" Mom asked, "How come Isis ghost?" Isis responded as gently as she could "If we stay, Lucy will die in the fire, and Aphrodite will die if she can't release the demon in time to the underworld at ShadowFire's property, the tree is the only portal we know of that will send that creature back to Hades where it belongs." "Ok, after you return the demon back to Hades will you come back to us?" Isis again darn "No, we would if we could, but we will be stuck at shadowFire's property once we burn the tree to the ground, it's the only way we can close the portal forever, but once we do that we will not be able to come back to your physical Earth again, unless we find another way?"

"One final question, ghost girls, did you know that ShadowFire is deceiving you?" Isis took this one "No, he is not deceiving us, actually he is on your side, he wants us to stay with you and dad, and he explained it to us this way: You see, Heaven is a beautiful place full of love, happiness, and peace, you're never lonely in Heaven and you don't have to worry about the hate, the greed, the anger and the wickedness of people on Earth, but there was one thing that made ShadowFire happy that he came back to your Earth and that was the gift! The gift of life, as imperfect as life is, every day is a treasure to be alive and to be loved by people that are as imperfect as you are! It is that frailty of life that makes it worth living because once it is gone, you lost that opportunity to let the ones you know how much you really love them!" mom's jaw was too the floor "Wow, you're good ghost girl and that is why I love you so much!"

Just then the curtains mysteriously fell down to the floor letting the beautiful sunlight in, mom said "I guess that is our cue that Ghost time is over ha-ha!" We all laughed and hugged each other! Oh Sunshine, I'm glad you were here with us, it means so much to me that you are here!

"Seriously though, stay here with us! You don't belong over there; you need to stay with the living!" Isis gently said "Oh mom, we love you so much, we would if we could, but we don't belong in your world, tell me, would you be willing to give up everything and come live with us to our world when we leave? You can come with us, but would you be happy in our realm of existence? We evolved, we have reached the Age of Aquarius in our world, it would be too hard for you to adjust! Just like it would be too hard for us to come back to a world that could never understand or accept us."

I told my mom "We can stay with you until wintertime, but only if you promise to laugh and enjoy this precious time we will have with you!" Mom said with tears in her eyes "Yes I will young lady Astraea, we will have plenty of Sunrises, Sunsets, hot chocolate, hugs, laughs, and lots of love while you are here, but don't be surprised if I secretly handcuff you all to me when wintertime comes!

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