LiTTLE CHERiNE Book 02 - post204

“It will hurt us all Robert, but if her going is a sacrifice on our part, she becomes an even greater gesture of love.”
“You are right Aganthi.”

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We spent a lot more time dancing, all of us filling Meli with our love-motes. I went to her mind and played with her, giving of those parts of myself that hopefully will help her become even more creative. I took from Meli all those attributes that make us love her so much and fed them back reinforced from my own soul. The others had their times with her too and for the first time little Cherine and her Rob took part.

Solomon has been made aware of our plans and I am certain he saw them as serving the needs of his own people and those of Ordinx for he took great pains to study Meli. He had her do as I did originally, when they had plumbed the depths of my mind in an effort to understand me. They helped me call forth that part of myself that I’d hoped to never use again, the eraser. They were endlessly patient and delicate in their manipulations of the energies it was made up of, altering it so that it would be able to recognise the parts in Meli that had to be removed. I told them that the memories, the actual memories of our love and loving, those I would remove with the help of Cherine and Dommi.

Finally the day arrived for splitting the soul. I arranged with Rob that he be in charge and I cautioned him that we must not be disturbed in any way until we have transferred the soul to their Melina. Gravely he acknowledged he understood and with a pale, drawn face he watched us leave. I do not know whether the eraser is of my subconscious, or partly of that and partly of my conscious mind, all I know is that I do not understand it, how it works, how it can fine tune the erasing it does.

First Dommi, Cherine and I went into the memories of the split off soul, little Cherine tenderly cradling it, and we began to excise those memories that would bind her to us. I made certain that I took all of them and placed them within myself, to hold and treasure and even perhaps at times bring out to experience. I saw the girls were doing the same, but none of us spoke about it. There was too much sadness in us for us to wish to speak, we felt as if we were amputating our darling Meli.

Soon as we had concluded our operation we took her to Solomon, who with his assistants, the yellowish Sparklers, came to oversee my eraser. I asked them to err on the side of leaving too much rather than too little.

I wish I could have taken that which the eraser erased but I do not understand or know what it did with all it erased. I hoped within my heart that the eraser took them within itself, but somehow I do not think so. The soul was becoming very small and faint and I was becoming afraid when Solomon indicated they were at the end, closing off the operation. I called to the healer to be ready.

Little Cherine took the soul of her Meli and brought her back to Earth, to the new body waiting for it. We all stayed in the void, giving them those precious minutes they needed.

We agreed they would go to live in the house of Alki next door. Only when they feel a rapport has been established, that she has bonded to them and is one within their circle, only then can they return to our home. The distance is not great and the protector can watch over them too.

Once they were gone we returned. Instead of a rejoicing, there was a sense of sadness, as if we have lost something precious to our hearts. Only Meli did not feel that way. We have left the love Meli has for her parents and siblings so at least Alki and Marian can rejoice. For them it is as if Meli has become twins.

I forgot to mention that little Cherine decided they would call their Meli, Honey - perhaps not very imaginative, but I have a feeling the name will soon feel apt. We had expected to wait a week or two for Honey to bond and join their circle. It was with astonishment that we felt their circle expand to include her by the second day. I called to Rob to take her dancing soon as she can

On the fifth day Meli suddenly cried out and ran for the bedroom. Rob, little Cherine and Honey walked in. Honey had assumed the age of five, obviously keeping herself at a younger age than our Meli, but also I think wanting to appear younger than her Cherine. The glow on all their faces spoke for them. From the door she dashed over to Alki and Marian. She hesitated a few seconds, but Marian had fallen to her knees with arms outstretched, her face filled with joy. Honey stepped into the arms that tried not to crush her with the love that exploded within Marian. Alki watched and tears streamed down his cheeks. When she turned to him, he too went down onto his knees and she seemed to disappear within his huge arms. We all heard her giggle of joy smothered against his chest.

My girls and I stood apart from them, watching with tears in our own eyes. I left the girls and went to the bedroom. I sat by Meli who was lying face down on the bed.

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“Are you scared my love?”

“Yes. It hurts Robbie!”

“I know, I went through it with the twins. It will pass, I promise.” She came into my arms and sobbed her little heart out.

“I should be happy, not crying.”

“First cry. There is a part of you that is no longer you, you must cry, grieve for that - then afterwards you will be able to feel the joy. Do not try to force it upon yourself my baby. It will come by itself.”

She would not go out to meet her(self) that day and I stayed with her. I would not say so, but I too was afraid. I’d seen her and felt how easy it would be for me to be overcome with love. I had to strengthen myself against that. The next morning, long after my loves had gone out, Meli holding herself tightly against me, I still struggled to find the courage to meet Honey.

The door opened. “I have to meet you. I’ve only been feeling sadness and fear from you since I came.”

I sat up. “Honey, that was brave of you.”

She giggled. “Cher told me. She told me about the monster in the void, how you pretended to be bad to make her love Rob. She said you are afraid of that again. You don’t have to be a monster Robert, I love my Rob. It is more scary to meet Meli though. Will she look at me?”

Meli rubbed her face against my shirt and sat up. I felt the electricity as they both looked at each other. Honey smiled, a huge broad smile of delight. “You are beautiful!! Will I be like you?”

“You will be lovelier. Only the best of me was given to you. Robert, can I touch her?”

“Of course.” They came together and Honey was embraced.

I sat by as they talked to each other, their hands straying to touch a cheek or an arm or leg. They seemed to feel the need to touch each other and thus reaffirm their own existence. Sometimes they were funny, the way two little girls can be when in earnest conversation. At other times they sounded adult in the questions and thoughts that crossed their minds. An idea came to me.

“Honey, both you and Meli are very lucky. Someday, I hope it will not be soon, you will have children. Honey, to me, yours will be as if they are my children also. For Meli however they will not be ‘as if’, they will be her children. Her children will be yours too. That means the two of you are likely to have twice as many children as any of the other girls.”

“Why ‘as if’ for you?”

“You and Meli are exactly the same, genetically and soul; Rob and I are not. We almost are, but we are not completely. Coming from separate alternate worlds has made us slightly different.”

Meli turned to me. “Would that not depend on when his world split off from ours?”

“You mean if it split off after we were born he would be exactly the same?”

“Yes. Is there any way to know when it happened?”

“I think not. No, I would say there is definitely no way we could.”

“You realise that Honey will exist on her world long before I existed on mine? How can our worlds have different times? Even Rob and Cherine are younger.”

“Theoretically our dates should be exactly the same if we split off from each other. Maybe the scientists will be able to explain it someday.”

“The scientists will have to be Cherinians!”

I chuckled. “Are you becoming a Cherinian partisan, Meli?”

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“No my silly Robbie, I was speaking of facts. To jump between our worlds and make their tests, they will have to be Cherinians.”

“Nowadays scientists seem to do their theorising sitting in their laboratories or offices.” I gave Honey a brush of my lips upon her cheek and left them alone.

At the concerned faces outside I gave a smile.

“It is confusing isn’t it? You feel their happiness, but also a sadness? Maybe they are having to say goodbye to a part of themselves. Don’t forget that it is just as bad for Honey. To her it is as if she is the original and Meli was taken from her.”

“They are both original!”

“I know Rosie, I was talking of their feelings, how it will seem to them. Sam, do you want to go tell Solomon and Ordinx? They would be welcome if they wish to visit.” They must have been waiting for they both appeared even before Sam returned.

“It was a success?”

“She has been renamed, she is called Honey. Honey and Meli are together now, getting to know each other and adjusting to the fact that they are no longer one. Sit with us while we all wait for them.”

As we were chatting, trying to prevent our eyes from straying to the bedroom door, we felt the laughter and a sense of naughtiness. I grinned to myself, this was a wonderful sign. About fifteen minutes later the door opened.

The two of them walked in. They were identical ages and had put on identical clothes (belonging to the twins). Their grins were identical too as they looked back at us.

“You have to guess which one of us is yours Robbie and then you get to keep that one.”

I grinned back at them. “I’d have to make love to both of you to…” The one pulled back slightly and I laughed out aloud. “You gave yourself away Honey. Your trick would only work on a non-Cherinian. We can feel your minds, taste your hearts.”

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