Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Chapter 16: Pow Wow preparations.

Chapter 16: Pow Wow preparations.

The next morning, after a long sleep, filled with colors and dreams, Billy woke up. Petra already had gone, but now he was used, she sometimes went her own way, and while his belly said, he was hungry, he prepared for breakfast.

Al where there: mom, dad, Lilo, still a bit bleak, but looking better than yesterday, and Violet, content chewing on a ring of very smooth material.

Billy did ask mom: “What is Violet doing?”
“She is chewing a biting ring, you did use.
Like Lilo did, when you two got teeth as well.
And the healing Lady gave Lilo a massage, and some stones to wear, until she feels totally well again.”

“Is that, while they are pink-purple-ish?” Billy asked.
”How do you know?” wondered Lilo.

“Nemo and me have yesterday talked about crystals, and what they can do.
We had a big book out of the house of knowledge with us.
And he showed me all colors around me with an apparatus.
Did he not teach you that?”he asked Lilo.

“No, I mostly got my lessons from a lady Atlantian, while sometimes girls do learn other things than boys,” Lilo said.

“But the apparatus, you are talking about, we also do use, when she is teaching me about healing,” Lilo proudly told.

“May be we can ask, we can have some lessons together soon, while it does show a bit, what we are talking about, too,” Billy said.
“Or do you think your Lady teacher does not like that?”

“I will ask Monadi, as you do the same with Nemo.
But first I have to be balanced again,” said Lilo, and went back to bed.

After breakfast Billy met Petra on the way to Nemo, and told, what he found out this morning.
“I knew,” Petra said, “sometimes, when I am not with you and Nemo, I do end up with Lilo and Monadi.
But while they mostly speak about things, who did not interest you until lately the crystals, I never mentioned it.”

“Did you learn a lot of them?” Billy asked curious.
“And were there things, you think Nemo has to know?”

“I do think, by the way they do use the same books, sometimes even the same words, they do know the same about what we are doing.
They only look at it on a different way, we do. A girly way.
And you are a boy who has to do more!
So lets go on, we have a lot of drawings to make today!” Petra urged.

So their day went very fast with preparations.
Only Nemo was curious about one thing: “Billy told me, that time goes different in Homeland, and so the books do say.
And nobody will miss him, while it does look, like he is still in bed.
Is that right Petra?”

“Yes, it is. In Homeland, there always is time to do, what need to be done.
There are a few people, who instinctive seem to know, how much time went by on thís world. Lea, the friend, I was telling about before, was out only for one night.
But in Homeland, it did look as if it were weeks.

As long as you do not go to much from our world to Homeland and back.
But that will not be the case, I do think, unless we do have to wake you up for information. Than time flies, as always!” Petra laughed, thinking of the few mistakes she herself had made with that, before she understood.
So they went on finding crystal forms, and colors as needed.

In Homeland at the same time, other preparations were being made.

The old place between what had been Homeland and the Otherlander place, was again set ready for this.
It had done it’s job good last time, and was big enough.

Under the guardian eyes of Wise Feather and Rob, who found some more people with Indian friends, they made all ready:
The secret circle, for the dance, at who’s rim the Medicines people, the elder and wiser people should sit, was cleaned.

All around it were smaller circles, where a flag did show, what kind of group was expected to use it.

There was a flag with a book, but also a big one with stones.
There also were flags with windmills and other machinery, Billy and Petra would not recognize, but the dry-lander’s should.

Big fires were made, and on the most pots of food were simmering, besides other places for food and drink.

There also were a lot of tables and benches around the flag with the books, so they needed not to be laid on the ground.

And as always in Homeland: there was space enough, for all that were expected.

But of all this, Billy had no idea, and Petra only could only suppose so, while she also had seen how the Lady and Elder had done, when Lea and Cindy came to the last Pow wow, to ask for help, solving the Otherlanders and their Gang problem.

“It really was nice, to know that in Homeland there is place, and a solution for all, with a little help from our friends” she loudly concluded her thoughts.

Nemo and Billy looked up, wondering, what she was talking about.

“Oh, I was thinking about the last Pow wow we had, and how well the Lady and the Elder did solve all, while they managed everybody, to do that, what was needed,” she answered.

Than Petra told about the field, and how everybody had found a place, while in Homeland always was time, and a place for all and everyone.

“You did mention that before,” Nemo said. “But what do you mean by that?
My books do not tell such things at all.
Probably, while I myself have no friend from Homeland, and they find things like that normal.”

“That is true,” Petra said.
“We ourselves even sometimes do forget, that time here, and with us in Homeland is totally different.
Even while we do have places, like the cave, where the grannies and the baby’s stayed, to learn about that.”

Nemo nodded understanding, but Billy looked, as if he did see water burning.

“Time is always the same, or not?” he said, looking very surprised to Nemo.
He said: “No, that only does look so.
But very learned people understand the relation between time and distance, and in Homeland that will be so too,” looking for confirmation to Petra.

“Yes, in Homeland there always is time, to do what is necessary.
But we have to watch that very well, so nobody is home again late, so their family will have sorrows, that are not necessary.”

With those words she looked at Billy. “They will see you in your bed, when they look around the door, to see if all is well.
But to show Nemo it works, we can go, and deliver already some of this papers to the Lady, and ask her, if there is more she does want from us?”

“But is it not a secret, how we travel?” Billy asked surprised.
“Yes it is,” Petra said, “so we will travel from another place, he cannot see.”

Nemo did not like it, he could not come. But there still was no Homelander friend found for him, so it stayed: no, he could not.
Billy and Petra did bring the papers and drawings, Nemo and they themselves had made, to the Lady.

The Lady had laid ready a lot of photo’s of the pink/purple crystal, an older friend from the world above water had specially made for Nemo.
Therefore he was not too much disappointed, while he seemed almost absorbed by the good view he had of this crystal, as he had of how big it was, while there was a measure besides it on one of this photo’s.
So he could complete his own axel with the right form and color.

He did send Petra and Billy swimming in the moat, while he thought, they did deserve a bit of free time to play.
This night, there had to be done a lot of work, so a bit relaxation in advance was no bad idea.

After swimming Billy did play a bit with his sisters, listened to another story of daddy about the time, he grew up on dry land, thinking, it was ok daddy did not now about Homeland.
For he did hear sometimes a bit of homesickness in that story. Specially when daddy told about climbing trees, and running down hill, and the plays, he and his friends did play.

Petra did find some sacks to carry things from Homeland to the bubble and back.
Billy had not spend any thoughts about this, but it seemed to be a good idea.
You never could know.

That evening they took the rest of the drawings, Nemo made, some fresh clothes for Billy, for when it would be colder or hotter than the bubble, with it’s steady temperature, and off they went: mirror hopping to the Pow wow.

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