Page 46 of Thrust into the Light
“No, mine is not as big as his is, but yes, mine does get bigger,too.” His phone makes a rumbly noise. He pulls it out and shows it to Vashu. Vashu nods and gets up and goes to the other door in the room and knocks on it hard. Rhi goes over to Connor's door and knocks on it. I see Connor poke his head out. I look over and Vashu is talking to Xander. I don’t understand what is going on. Vashu goes into his room and comes back out with a shirt on and his shoes on. I just eat more bacon while they all talk and put on clothes. Rhi comes back over to me. He has different clothes on now too.
“Healer Daniel wants to see us. It’s something regarding you, and it’s important. So we need you to get your shoes on so we can go.”
I stand up and go over to my shoes. I bend down to get them on and I hear a lot of strange noises behind me. I look between my legs and all of them are standing behind me, looking at me. Everyone except Rhi says something. Vashu says, “Burn them.” Xander says “Keep them.” Connor says, “Fuuuuuuuuuck.” Rhi is just staring at me and his eyes are all swirly again. I get my shoes on and stand up. My phone makes a rumbly noise, so I grab it. It’s the picture of the lady that looks like Connor. I show him and he nods at me. I press the button to open the message and the strange voice says, “Hi Farlen, I’m Connors Mom, hopefully he’s told you about me by now, don’t let them make you change, you wear what you are wearing, it makes you feel pretty and they don’t get to take that away from you, no matter how uncomfortable it makes them. I can’t wait to meet you, sweetie!”
I smile at my phone. It does make me feel pretty. I like the blue. I look back at the men and they all have their hands on their face. I don’t know why they do that, but they look silly. I make a small laughing noise and all of them look at me. They all look at each other and nod their heads. They all move at once, and Connor grabs my hand. We leave the house, and the sun is starting to come up more. Connor picks me up and carries me. He brings his mouth close to my ear. “I wouldn’t dream of making you change out of that, but you cannot bend down and pick anything up today, especially while you are wearing that.”
I don’t understand what he means, but I nod at him anyway, no bending down. We get to the small hospital and Vashu opens the door and everyone walks in. Connor is still carrying me. We go back to the part with all the beds and Healer Daniel is there and so is Instructor Payne.
“Sorry everyone, for getting you up early. After my last scan on Farlen, I also included a brain scan on her, even though I don’t think I’ve ever done one before. Never a need to, you know. Anyway, I wasn’t sure what was normal and what wasn’t, so I asked Payne if I could do a scan on him. I need all of you to take a deep breath. She has scarring all over her brain, and I haven’t been able to sleep because I can only imagine what caused the damage. I want to heal the damage to her brain now. I can’t think about anything else besides healing it. Hopefully, it will help out with a lot of other things. I don’t have specifics on what I think it will help, as I’ve never had to heal a brain before, and I want all of you aware of that. Nothing could happen, or everything could change.”
Everyone says do it. So I nod my head. Connor sets me down on a bed. I go to lay down again, but Healer Daniel stops me. “You have to stay sitting up for this one. I need to touch your head.” I nod at him and I feel his hand get hot and everyone just stares at where his hands are.
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Scarring on her brain? Oh, my Gods. She’s told us a little about how she’s gotten some of her scars, not specific ones. I can only fucking imagine what he did to her to make her brain be scarred. Everyone is just standing here, watching Healer Daniel heal her. No one says anything. I think everyone is too afraid to breathe right now, or can’t breathe because they are trying to calm themselves down. I’m not sure which. I can’t focus on any of their thoughts right now. I am transfixed on the spot, watching Farlen get healed. I don’t know what I’m hoping for out of this, but I just hope it helps her somehow, some way.
Healer Daniel takes his hands off of Farlen's head and he nods to all of us. Everyone is still too stunned to move, so I walk forward to her and put my hand on her face. She gasps as soon as my hand makes contact, and she brings her hand up to touch my hand.
“I can feel you! Not just the warmth from your hand, but like I can on that spot on my back!” She makes the cutest fucking squealing noise. I don’t know what is happening right now. She sounds just like Farlen, still the broken, raspy voice. But there was no hesitation in her words, and they were all spoken with perfect clarity. Kind of like she does in her head.
She makes another gasping noise. “That was so easy to say! I didn’t have to think about it and how I wanted my mouth to move to form the words. I just thought about the words I wanted to say and my mouth said them all by itself! Just like it’s doing now! How is this possible?!”
I look back at my brothers, and they are all standing there with their mouths wide open. She touches her mouth and gasps again.
“I can feel it when I touch myself! My hand doesn’t feel as good as yours does Connor. Oh! Can I feel all of you now?”
I look up to Healer Daniel. He has Payne by the hand and is pulling him out of the room, and Payne the hardass has tears in his eyes. I need to get them something, but what do you give to the people who did unspeakable kindness to the most important person in the world to you?
“Hey are you guys okay? Why isn’t anyone moving? Rhi? Connor? Xander? Vashu? Guys?”
I don’t think about it, I just act. I move forward and kiss her. She makes a groaning noise and all I want to do is to deepen the kiss, but I pull back and she is looking at me. She looks like she is going to cry.
“I get it. I understand what she meant now.”
“What, who meant sweet girl?”
“The lady from the first song, when she said that the kiss, made her feel like she was flying. My heart feels like it is trying to fly.”
Zachariah comes over to her and I step back. She gasps as his hand makes contact with her face.
“Oh Rhi, I can feel you too!” She is crying now. He bends down and kisses her. She makes the groaning noise, and Zachariah uses it as an opportunity to deepen the kiss. She grabs his shirt and pulls him closer to her, well at least I don’t need to break this apart, and she seems to be enjoying it. He breaks the kiss and puts his forehead to hers. She breathes in through her nose. And then she really starts to cry. Zachariah looks like he is fucking panicking.
“Why are you crying, gorgeous?”
“Coffee and chocolate.” Is all Farlen says. I worry that maybe the healing didn’t last long enough, but Zachariah laughs and picks her up and spins her around the room. She is laughing too, so there must be something I don’t understand. Xander andVashu walk up to her when Zachariah puts her down. They have their hands out towards her face. She grabs their hands and puts them on her face and she gasps again.
“I can feel all of you! How! I thought my scars were what was stopping me from feeling you all. But I can feel everything. Xander and Vashu are both warmer than Connor and Rhi, but Vashu’s hand doesn’t feel as soft as Xander’s. How is this possible?”
The other guys have her right now. I pull out my phone to text my mom and before I can even type the question; she sends her reply.
Mom: You don’t have to get them anything son, knowing that this is making her this happy is all that they needed to hear. Payne is going to look like he is on the verge of tears anytime Farlen gets touched by one of you, and Healer Daniel is going to remain professional, but he is at home in his center's arms, crying right now. If you all had made her change, she would have spent too long deciding on what to wear, not sure why you all reacted that way, and then you wouldn’t have gotten here in time for this. Now put down your damn phone and get to your girl.
I shake my head at my mom. I look up at Farlen, and she is standing between everyone. She is smiling and crying. Everyone has a hand on her somewhere. I walk over to her and place my hand on her arm. She turns to me and smiles at me and is crying even more.
“My heart feels so full. I still can’t believe I can feel all of you and I can finally say what I want to say without it coming out funny. Now, one of you needs to teach me the eyebrow thing because it isn’t fair that you can all do it and I can’t.”
