The High Elf Queen of The Light ~ Solaris Book 1 of The High Elves

ch 7 The Magic within me

7 The Magic within me

"Your first lesson with magic will be to get as calm as possible and meditate." Elfane explains to me this morning after his revelation this morning on how connected we were to all the planets everywhere! We walk to the library and go to a side chamber which looks more like a yoga studio with some high cushions in it.

"This is the mediation chamber where we will have you learn to engage your mind, to open your magic up to your consciousness. The spell buried it deep within you, so you could not access it by accident, and lead Hiroline to detect you through the aura of magic that is inside you"  

Mind blown, I look at Elfane and just think. Meditate how? Elfane touches my forehead.

"You need to think of something that makes you happy, it has to be real, be it love, a pet, a parent, a lover. Something that grounds you and that you can focus on. Your emotions need to be calm in order to unchain the magic and only then when you feel at peace.  Will it be something that you will feel inside you? Yes. Inherent magic, like portal magic is different than the magic that was locked inside you. You had the power to the portal already, it is not the bound magic that your parents, your real parents wanted to hide, portal magic is untraceable, your untapped magic to cast spells and other alchemical reactions with your mind is what is traceable by others. That was what was locked away, to hide you from Hiroline and his followers so they would not be able to locate you."

I look at him not really comprehending what he is asking me to do, I try to just calm myself since I was still feeling all sorts of emotions from the loss of Jaime, my home on earth, friends and family I won’t see on earth, loneliness of being without Jaime, the fear of aloneness and this new place I am yet to figure out and understand here on Solaris, being a Queen or princess, responsibilities that come with that title, what is happening to me physically and emotionally, it was chaotic in my mind. "How do I block all this out?"

"You just need to relax and focus on one thing, and one thing only." He explains, "If you only think about the one thing, the rest will fade away from your conscious mind. Try to only think of Jaimie and only of him and focus on the first time you met, nothing else, just that one moment in time."

He hands me a large crystal the color of citrine, "This is your birthstone, it will help you focus on the one particular time, and, you need to just feel the one emotion that is connected to that first meeting, understand that you need to only feel the one emotion, for you to delve deeper into that feeling. Close your eyes and just think back"

I close my eyes and focus on Jaimie; sadness invades my mind.

"Just think of the time you met him" Elfane says to me. 

 I push past the sadness and the time we met back in the coffee shop.

"Not the shop, the first time you met him" Elfane says.

 This as I focus back on the freshman days of high school where we met back then in home room class, I felt a spark in me as I first saw him, was that my magic feeling my soulmate? I try to focus more on that moment, the spark, and I feel my blood course through my veins and my fingers tingle at the sensation of a partial awakening inside me when my soulmate was first near me.  

"I feel something, but it is weak" I tell Elfane, "How do I open it?"

"Keep your eyes closed and think about the moment of the first time your soul met his" 

My first thought of him, he was before me and asked if this was his seat, he pointed to the seat, which was right beside me, how strange I thought that this beautiful boy was sitting right next to me. I was young and not yet in puberty even, maybe that is why it seemed strange to me at the time, the emotion was strong then, and I was shy back then.  I tried to feel just that spark again, but it eluded me. Was it strong enough of a feeling? I was unsure if I should concentrate on that or another meeting or emotion. I concentrate on it more, thinking of Jaime back then on that day, I remember it clearly now - He was gorgeous even then, with a strong build with his blond hair and dreamy eyes I could stare into all day. I had fantasized about him, even back then, and pretended to be with him as his wife, never knowing that we were soulmates back then. 

 I felt within my elven body that something was stirring within. I concentrated harder, now that I was feeling something happen to me. His smile was like a warm sun on my face, it radiated from him and warmed me up.  His words made my heart speed up with excitement, or was it magic?  

Jaimie, was talking to me since I was sitting beside him and he said, "You feel like someone I know already, how that is so?" he smiles his devastatingly handsome grin at me "We will be friends, I think!" He says to me, I smile shyly at him, He chuckles “Of course, you are going to have to say stuff back to me so we can have a discussion, you know"

I remember turning pink at that "Sorry, we are not supposed to be talking in homeroom" I whisper so only he can hear it, "We are supposed to be studying” I look at him sternly. This guy is going to get me in trouble with my favorite teacher, I think.  

"Ha, no way the teacher is not gonna do anything in homeroom class to ya” he laughs. "They don't care about that in homeroom you know, this is like a free time period for them as well"  

I raise my eyebrows at him "Really think you know stuff, do you? I will have you know I am student council and I take rules seriously” sounding as stern as I can be. He laughs at me again and it charms me, so much that I sort of giggle, but continue to stare hard at him with seriousness. He laughs more at me.

"What is your name O serious one?" he asks me.

"Lorna Kiley Meddingly Hilloc Lumina” I say huffily "What is yours?" I say, so I can report him if I get in trouble.  

"Jaimie Lineary Godfrey Hertiage” he says most gallantly that I feel some of my agitation leave me, he then smiles at me. "Pleased to meet you” I always wondered if he felt the way I did when we first met. From then on, we were close friends but never romantic until I met him that day in the coffee shop, and wham, I was not able to resist the connection then since having fantasied about him for years while I was in college.  

My mind gets closer to the thought of the first meeting, and I feel a warmth in the center of me around my heart a lightness and lifting of some sort of barrier being lifted and replaced by light inside me. The ends of my hair glow and light is shining from the ends of my fingers and into the jewel I hold in my hands, and it glows with the magic that is exuding from me the robe sparkles as the gems on it light up and I open my eyes to the brightness of the gem that was shining on my eyes. I feel electric again like when I was near the portal but this time, I feel it inside me not just a background feeling. I feel it inside me and growing and the stone gets brighter as my magic lights it up and is sparkles and all its facets glimmering and shining light all in the mediation room in the library. Elfane is beaming at me when I open my eyes. I am unsure what just happened to me.

"You have unlocked the magic in you we can now go into the library to have you learn basic spells and alchemy!" Elfane looks extremely pleased that I managed to open my magic up so soon. He Extends his hand to me to assist me off the cushion, and he leads me out into the library. He pulls a large volume from the shelf labeled Basic Magics Volume I, this book is so thick I am scared to see the other volumes. This book weighs about 20 pounds. I gasp at the weight of it. "You will learn how to use magic to make things lighter in weight as well as many other things but first you must be hungry, we were in the mediation room for 8 hours since your breakfast."

I am famished! I realize now the time we spent was a long time and it looks dark outside now. Were the days light earth days? I wondered? "Yes I am hungry now that you mention it” He brings me to a new part of the palace and he brings me to a large hallway that was filled with servants in dress uniforms in likeness to my robes, they were not a poor people these high elves I think to myself. The robes very decorated with loads of gemstones like the robe and were all of similar quality in materials also to my own robe.  

"The staff await inspection your majesty" Elfane bows to me, the staff follows suit and bows low to me.

 "Please rise" I say to them all, they rise up and Elfane then tells me their names and what they do in the castle, the staff numbers in the hundreds, my mind not able to remember all the names as face after face and name after name is said and they all bow, and I nod my head at them all. 

 Elfane then leads me to the dining hall filled with noble elves from the royal houses in my kingdom. "They will be presented to you after you refresh yourself with a meal and drink.  I will give you the listing of all the staff and what they do here in that castle to assist you as well as the names of the noble families and their ties to you later" he says to me privately as I get seated at the throne at the largest table I ever seen. He takes a seat to my right the only other to sit at the main table. "No one is allowed to the table without your permission or mine as high Priest your majesty. I thought it would be better this way until you want to invite others to join you here at the royal table."

I breathe out slowly relieved I didn't have to talk to anyone else yet, not to mention to not to embarrass myself in front of the noble families here at the table. As I sit the rest of the room sits down and we all begin to be served the incredible dishes on the serving plates that the servants bring to each table and place on the platinum platter that is the main plate to eat from that is directly in front of me. I notice all the plates in front of the nobles are also platinum.  

Music begins to play in the background sounding like a flute and violin playing a soothing melody. I try all the dishes and they are all earthly recipes in front of me. All cooked to perfection and taste amazing. I wonder if that is just because magic made it so or if they are just Master of Culinary Arts. I am not sure what is real or magic. Is the food real? The music? The people? I pinch myself under my sleeve, so no one sees me do it. Ouch! Ok, I guess this is as real, as it is magical.  

The murmur of people talking at their tables rises softly and blends with the music. I relax and enjoy my evening meal and think to what I have to learn here. There is so much to learn of magic and how to control it. That first volume alone was huge! Thousands of pages in one volume alone. Elfane seems to enjoy Earthly cuisine. "I haven't had this dish in ages! It is delicious! The chef has really outdone herself this evening!"

"Her" I ask between bites "The chef?" I take another bite of tender steak herbed to perfection in a rich butter sauce

"Yes, many female elves are gifted with the arts of magic in cooking.  The males of our race do possess the knack also but, Artisia is a master!" I sort of remember her name in the long line of the servants and greeting them. She was very beautiful and had golden brown hair with amber colored eyes. She was wearing a golden robe that was very ornate her hair was tied up in golden ribbons maybe because she was a chef. She was going to be memorable with her magic in cooking I was sure to remember her face and name.  

"Her talent is amazing! She beats all earthly chefs easily!" I exclaim as I take another bite of her amazing food. "Supreme Grand Master Chef indeed!" I take another bite again, savoring the richness of the butter sauce, the herbs and spices bring out the beef flavor out and making it seem to melt in my mouth. My taste buds exploding with the flavors, was it more vibrant with unlocking magic in me?

"Most likely it is, my queen" Elfane answers my unspoken question "I am telepathic, your majesty" he apologizes, "Sorry to intrude on your thoughts, but it was loud in my head, as if you asked me aloud."

"I was going to ask you that out loud" I laugh “hope that it wasn’t like a yell in your mind."

"No, it was like you spoke it to me out loud in your normal voice, maybe you have some telepathic ability to look into as well as other magic your majesty" He looks at me questioningly, "There will be much to learn for the both of us it seems."

My head was spinning with all that I must learn about magic and alchemy. Feeling full and needing to rest in my bedchamber I excuse myself from the table, and everyone rises when I stand up in the banquet hall, that I turn pink,

"I am retiring to my chamber, please continue to enjoy your evening meals everyone” Not knowing if what I said was proper or not, I leave the hall and head to my room as quickly as I can. I open and close the door behind me and lock it. Leaning on the door, I take a deep breath and think what am I supposed to be and do here? I exhale and feel my shoulders relax from the breath I took; I take it another one and slowly exhale this time feeling myself calm down a bit. I need to read the book and see how I control magic. It terrified me that something powerful that I did not know how to control was inside me. I see the large volume on my bedside table. Well, I guess I can read the first chapter in this monstrous book and see if it helps at all. I climb into the huge bed it was larger than a king-size bed on earth like a double king size by elven standards I think to myself, trying to get a hold of measuring by elven thoughts from human thoughts. I open the cover to the tome of Learning Magic Volume I.  I read and read into the night and fall asleep with it open on my chest.