Viewer, Walker, Whisperer Chapter 5 *Original Draft*

So, I've managed to come up with not much else for this week of writing, besides a CONFIDENTIAL and under TIGHT WRAPS project that I'm working on right now. Doing plenty of research on it as well. :) But anyway, here's the ORIGINAL DRAFT of Viewer, Walker, Whisperer Chapter 5. Just in case you've forgotten, you can click on the archives on the left. :D

**Suddenly, the familiar wrapping began. Everything else fuzzed out until I could hear whatever my ‘extra hearing’ picked up. But something was different, so very different. Instead of seeing black, an image of a beautiful lady came to me. Her long, black hair cascaded down her back; she was wrapped in draping, gold silk with gold and silver accessories embedded with precious-looking gems of all shapes and sizes.
“Hello, Kevin,” she said. “H-how do you know my name?” Her knowledge frightened me, as did her eyes. No matter how much she looked like a queen, her beauty would never mask her dark, black eyes, black as her raven-dark hair.
I saw her blossoming red, full lips twist into a smirk and she replied, “Oh, trust me, I know a lot about you.” I blinked. That just made my heart sink even heavier.
Who was she? How did she know about me? How did I manage to envision her even though I could only ‘hear’?
“Kevin,” she leaned towards me; I tried to take a step back, but found a wall behind me, “please respect your power. Not everybody has the ability to hear what people are saying in other dimensions.”
I blinked again, shocked. She knew about my ‘extra hearing’? But how? Why? Who was she?
“Who-who are you?” I stammered. She laughed cheerily.
“You don’t have to know about that right now. Just remember, whisperer...” Her dark eyes became deadly serious again, “...never will your ability away. Instead, embrace it with all your heart.” And with that last, whispered sentence, she disappeared.
My head was instantly filled with a dull ache, as if someone had just thumped me in the head with a Frisbee. I slumped down onto the floor and laid down there. How was it that I felt so dizzy? What, exactly, had that woman done to me?
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“You mean, you saw her too?” Katie asked, wide-eyed. It was fifteen minutes after, and we were all discussing the queen-like woman. How did we even get to that subject? Well, it all started with Keri’s outburst...
“I can’t take it anymore!” She shouted once my dizziness went away. I looked up at her. Take what? Could she possibly be suffering from what I was suffering? Could she ‘hear’ too? Had she seen the lady? Seeing that all of us were looking at her, she took a deep breath.
After seeming to hesitate, she finally blurted it out, “It’s been impossible since I was ten. I know this might seem really crazy, but it’s true; you have to believe me!” I frowned. I’d gotten the ‘extra hearing’ when I was ten too. Was it too much of a coincidence?
“Listen, I...” She paused, then decided the better of it and continued, rushing through her words. “Actually, whenever I sleep, I’ll have these weird dreams about some snowy place and commandos on ice bears and goblin-like creatures and fairies and pixies and all those crazy, magical stuff, and then when I awaken, it’s as if I had really been there. I would be covered in snow, and-and I,” she stopped, biting her lip, on the verge of tears.
I had frozen, and so had Katie. Were we actually on the same page? Was she telling the truth? That I wasn’t the only freak in our family? That I wasn’t the only abnormal one? That she had some freaky magical power too? Or, at least according to the magical-looking woman.
She put her head in her hands and shook her head, muttering incoherently to herself. I reached my hand to pat her shoulder comfortingly and said, “It’s fine. I have a magical power too.” Her head shot up.
“What?” Keri and Katie asked both at the same time, their voices saturated with disbelief. I sighed.
“It’s true. I can hear... stuff that other people can’t. It’s frightening.” I grimaced at the thought. It was much harder to accept saying out loud.
“Well, since all of you have confessed, then I will too. I’ve had this since I was ten—that’s why I was so reluctant for you two to come over and hang out. I didn’t want anyone to find out, to label me a freak. I... I see things. It’s like I’m hallucinating. I see all those things you talk about, Keri. Magical lutes, elves, fairies, pixies, commandos on ice bears, everything.” Her voice broke at the end.
So... we all had these abilities? My feelings were mixed up, I didn’t know what to think!**

--Viewer, Walker, Whisperer