The Heart Fountain

 
The Living and the Dead
I rise alone today and walk out to the porch.
The morning air is still cool.
I slept last night in my childhood home.
I remember playing here as a boy.
But the memories are fragments.
Only the feelings of love are clear.
As the day is clear.
There are no dark clouds or lightning today.
A soft wind [...]

 
Fountain
My awareness spins.
Leaving the world of the Gen.
And returning to the vat.
The vat is small and cramped.
My body grows again.
Leaving the old ones behind.
I feel different after my time with the Gen.
The world calls me.
A world of joy and possibility.
But my heart is unsettled.
I’m also filled with sadness.
And a strange feeling of urgency.
Something is wrong.
Not [...]

 
Waiting
I’ve been training for almost a month.
And I haven’t seen a tournament.
Today she asks me to wait again.
“Two more months, Neebol.”
“Why, Master Vala?”
She glares at me.
(Just yesterday she asked me to stop calling her Master.)
“In the tournament,” she says, “the moving energies seem visible to physical eyes.”
“But the most amazing aspects are hidden.”
“In two months, [...]