Saturday, June 1, 2013

The Keeper of the Vanishing Glass II

I woke up that morning, wondering while all my dreams were, literally,blue. I looked at my hand, and it hadn't changed back, except now it was traveling up my arm. As I walked the beach, again, I found more sea glass. I piled them in my bucket, and headed back as the tide came back in. When I looked in the mirror, at my always-brown eyes, I was shocked beyond belief. They were BLUE?! How can this happen. I had to see a doctor, no matter what. As I was sitting in the waiting room reading a magazine on the latest breakups, my skin began to itch. Then, I realized people were looking at me. when the nurse called my name I ran towards the door, desperate to rid myself of the stares. As the doctor came in he did a double take; adjusting his glasses. "What's wrong with me, Doc?" I asked. After a number of tests, I was released. "I don't know, Emily. It may seem odd, but all your major organs are working just fine,"He said. As I went home, I was stumped. At lunch time I made myself a sandwich and a glass of water. The sandwich was baloney, and cheddar on rye. As I drank my water, slowly, I thought of the dolphins, and how I hadn't heard them today. I missed their voices. "Hello, anyone there? Yoo hoo?", my own voiced replied. All I heard were echoes of myself in my head. I wondered where they were. Strange things happening, and I didn't know why. I pulled a shoe box from under my bed; a collection of sea glass I'd collected in the past. I even  had red, the rarest. As I touch each one, my fingers turned different colors, besides blue. They glowed like never before. They were cool to the touch. Suddenly another song filled my being. "The girl with the rainbow hands, will travel throughout the land,  she'll bring back the glass from our distant  past, magic someday again will last". Strange, she knew she needed to understand this, so she wrote it down in her journal. As she replayed the words again, she knew what had changed her. It was time to go to the library.

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