Chalice
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They stood, two women, upon the cliff edge.
“Let’s jump.”
“Don’t be stupid!’
“I didn’t mean jump from here! I meant let’s go back, sit down, meditate, and just jump, just let ourselves go wherever the mediation takes us, with no safety net.”
“Cass, we meditate every day,” I pointed out, irritated. “So what do you mean ‘jump’? It’s not as if we are new to meditating.”
She turned to me. The wind pulled her long dark hair away from her face, and her brown eyes stared at me, into me. “Honey, we have controlled the meditations. We have had a clear focus of what we will do. We have never just allowed the energy to take us wherever it takes us. We have never let loose and just jumped.”
I looked down at my hiking boots. “It’s not that I don’t want to let go,” I said. “It’s just that I am always aware that I am sitting on a chair meditating, and I don’t seem to be able to go anywhere. It’s not that I don’t want to.”
“Kelly, don’t look at your feet as if you have something to be ashamed of.”
“Fearless bitch,” I said with a grin as I looked back up at her. And she was too: fearless.
“There is something that holds you back, and unless we are prepared to simply jump we will not manage to get you away from that chair. I am not saying you are doing anything wrong, or even deliberately trying to keep your awareness on that chair…but I do think you are ready to jump.”
“I don’t!”
“Rubbish, of course you are,” she insisted and marched off, back to the car.
I didn’t speak to her for the half hour hill hike. She was convinced I was ready, I was convinced I was terrified. Of what? I had no idea!
When we reached Cass’s car—an old, dark blue, Audi station wagon—she tossed me the keys. “You drive, and I warn you, this is the last time you will truly be in control of what you are doing and where you are going.”
I tossed the keys right back at her.
“Don’t be an ass,” she said and tossed them back at me.
I snatched them out of the air, held them tight in my hand, felt the sharpness of the metal. “Oh, all right,” I sighed. “Your place or mine?”
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About the Book
Kelly is launched on a journey that exposes her as a bright light within the universe—not that she believes it! Untapped, untrained, and under the tutelage of the leader of the Fellowship—those responsible for holding the Earth in balance—she must now learn to control abilities she never knew she had, so that she may assist the Fellowship to defeat the darkness which threatens to swallow humankind. She is their greatest hope. In the final battle, as the Fellowship are being defeated, she must risk everything. If they are to survive she must achieve perfect self-mastery.
A story of self-discovery, friendship, and—in face of the greatest danger—sacrifice.
About the Author
Since childhood, Robyn M Speed has had a passion for writing, for expressing her fantasies and ideas. As an adult she realised another passion of equal intensity: that of finding out who she is, in the deepest spiritual sense. Now she combines the two, using story as a journey to greater understanding. Robyn is a past Winner of the Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Unpublished Manuscript Award—New Zealand’s second largest literary award.