Destiny's Quest-1st Chapter - P.J.Lawton (polar express read aloud txt) 📗

Destiny’s Quest

In the quiet stillness of early morning she awoke with a start, her heart pounding so loudly she felt surely everyone in the house could hear. It happened again, the same recurring dream she’d experienced these last several nights. It wasn’t a dream exactly. It was more vivid than just a dream. Each time someone was reaching out to her. That someone, she believed, was her mother.

Alice dreamed of her mother many times over the four years since she’d lost her. However, these recent dreams, if they really were dreams, were different. During each visit she couldn’t actually see her mother but could sense a presence, a spirit, like a shapeless floating haze. The presence was attempting to tell her something, something important. Try as she might, Alice just couldn’t understand.

Alice’s mother, as the granddaughter of a once powerful tribal medicine man, was deeply aware of her tribal spiritualism and culture. Since her mother’s death, Alice attended boarding schools in the east, leaving little contact with her birthright and it beliefs and knowledge.

During earlier years though, especially after the loss of her soldier father in a land so far away, they had been more than mother and daughter, more like best friends, kindred spirits. To help ease her feelings of loss, Alice’s mother made several attempts to bring her deeper into her own world of beliefs. At first reluctant, after a time Alice began and effort to understand her mother’s feelings and thoughts of the ancient way of life.

Unfortunately, everything changed on one awful stormy night when her mother’s light plane went down on a flight to help earthquake victims in southern Mexico. The search lasted several days but in the end the plane was never located.

Feeling emptiness deep inside, Alice missed her mother dearly. Her grandparents did their best, but somehow it wasn’t enough. She needed something, something more. In an effort to find, something, she rekindled her interest in tribal customs and legends. She wanted, above all, to keep alive the special connection she’d shared with her mother, at least in her memories.

Alice was spending her summer, as she normally did, with her grandparents on their ranch in the beautiful Southwestern plains country. Toward the back edge of the ranch sat a small group of mountains with a rather large misshapen peak called Bear Claw in the middle. Close by were very old ruins of an early native settlement. Legend was that this area had been a mystical, magical, spiritual place for her ancestors.
With her vacation nearly over, on this particular day she decided to explore the ruins and climb Bear Claw’s large peak. Her hope was to meditate a little and gain some perceptive as to meaning of her recent nightly visits. Maybe, just maybe, she could gain some much needed understanding.

She didn’t have any set plan or any knowledge of what was to happen, however, this day’s journey would ultimately expand her understanding and provide the maturity to ease her long months of sadness and uncertainty. By the end of the day she would finally find--inner peace.

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Publication Date: 09-28-2011

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