The Wind Rose

Chapter 3

“As this boy, now maturing into a man, meets opposition all around him, will he have the strength of faith and character to hold fast to his beliefs, to not be coerced by others to think his experience really is just an illusion?”

Other: When no one else has seen or heard what you have, it"s difficult to hold on to a conviction. But, as we"ve stressed before, he must go deep within himself for that courage, to know that what he has witnessed is his own truth.

“But have I taken him as far as he is capable, or willing, to comprehend? Are we asking too much? Or should I do more?”

Other: You have done your part admirably. What you have helped him see will stay with him. Now it"s up to him to experience the “knowing.” That “knowing” is built upon the “Power of Three.” Once he puts all the pieces together, the Three will become One.

“The pieces being the three sacred artifacts. Separately, they have their own individual power, but united the three synergize into One.”

Other: Exactly. And when he discovers this, which he is so close to doing, his mission will be fulfilled.

“So, I shall stand back and let him move forward on his own intuition…”

Other: Oh, the things we can achieve when we aspire to the greatness within ourselves.

NASA Observatory

An opaque elliptical image with a glimmering outline soars across the evening sky then dissipates. Notice is taken by the night crew who dismiss it as an optical illusion. But its appearance is logged into the database of unusual sightings to be investigated.

Griffith Observatory

A translucent obelisk-shaped form moves out of the clouds, illuminating the starless mid-western sky. The night crew is breathlessly silent as the one obelisk becomes two, and then three, eerily linked together in one graceful motion. This uncanny vision, too, is noted into the sightings database just as it fades from view.

Port Avalon Observatory

A shimmering, lenticular cloud-shaped light glides across a part of the heavens almost too far away for the powerful telescope to perceive. Professor Ramirez squints hard trying to focus in on the faint image and determine what it is. Then he smiles broadly. He has seen it before, but just as before he will tell no one, not even his colleagues at the NASA and Griffith Observatories who have shared their sightings with him. This one he will keep to himself until the propitious moment.