She Was A Blond by D.A.Sanford - HTML preview

Hearts are health

“Hearts are health. You will be able to heal but the knowledge when to stop.”

Setting those cards down on the coffee table, I go to pick them up but she really strikes my hand away with a force that feels like she broke all the bones in my hand.

“Don’t you ever touch any cards before I give them to you. If you did, it would trigger that power but Jed would not get what he wants. You would terminate the multi universes. Not just ours.”

She takes the two of hearts and holds it up. “This is the weakest of the suit. Ace is the strongest. Individually they are powerful but as a complete suit, you would not be able to control it. I will give you the next card when I figure you have mastered the last one given. Now picture those broken bones, by the way most are shattered, picture them returning back to whole.”

She is monitoring what I am thinking. She sees me picturing that and she mentally tells me to take the two of hearts with my good hand and touch the broken hand.

I do just that. Instantly, I could see the real bones realign and heal as if they were never damaged. I open my eyes and see that I actually had the card in my good hand. She held the remainder of that suit.

I can only look at her, my hand and the rest of that deck.

“Now you can heal your own body, especially that broken heart of yours.”

I look at Jaylin then to Felicity and tell them that they have gone a long way on doing just that.

“I’m not joining you both in that shower.” She tells me. I cannot tell if the red in her face is blushing or anger. Maybe I do not know. I feel that I need to get in the driver’s seat and contemplate while I drive.

We start to drive.

I see up ahead an injured animal in the road. It was thrashing and trying to get up. I stop the RV and get out. It was a doe that looks like it was hit by a car. I can’t tell if the swelling of her belly is from the accident or if it is pregnant.

Remembering my hand, I close my eyes and picture the belly. It is pregnant. I also see that the legs are broken. The baby is also injured. I use the two to start to heal the doe’s broken bones but it is not enough.

I feel more power as I feel the next card being placed in my hand without so much as an explanation as what it does. Now I know that I need to heal the baby before I finish the doe. Other wise she will run off and lose the baby.

I heal the baby and feel another card. Now I can calm the two and make them sleep for as long as I need. I work on the doe and finally finish the healing. It was now time to gently wake the doe and baby.

She woke but did not bolt from me. She stood and nuzzled me then just wandered off into the woods.

It was only then that I saw Felicity and Jaylin standing there. Both are smiling. I realize that I now have more cards. I put them into my shirt pocket and pat the pocket.

“I have always wanted to be able to do that. It hurt me to see the dead animals on the highway. In my early adult life, there was a turtle crossing the rural road. I stopped and went into the road picked it up and put it into the pond on the other side of the road. I still get a good feeling every time I remember that. Thank you Jaylin for helping me to heal that doe.”

She does say that she actually wanted it for supper but this is better. I know or hope that it was her trying to make a joke.

The more cards I gained the harder the challenge. By the time I had the king of hearts, I knew exactly what the next one was. The ace of hearts.

Each card, I have the choice as to treatment or no treatment. The ace is ultimate. Do you heal the worst or ease their way to the final life. I want to heal but now the ace shows me my inner feelings. Who am I doing it for?

Is that person better off being physically healed when mentally the person is at worse a vegetable. Who am I to make that decision? But I now know that I will have to make those decisions. That is the ace of hearts.

On this road, Jaylin tells me to stop. There before me is a nursing home. I do not want to go in but I know it is for my betterment so I go in.

“Are you my son?” I see a woman in a wheel chair at the nurses station. She looked lonely. I am told that she asks that to every male. You can tell that she is no longer visited by anyone. I pull up a chair and sit next to her. I hold her and let her just lean on me.

I talk to her and she drifts off to sleep.

The nurses smile and tell me that I was the first to do that. Most just walk by.

We see all conditions of ailments. Most still have their minds but when I say I can ease their pain, I am told that they are okay with the pain because it makes crossing over a very easy choice.

Jaylin tells me that we need to get back on the road. As we pass the nurses station they stop me and tell me that the woman had passed. “She was at peace. She went with a smile. Her son finally stopped to see her. Her son was killed in a battle long ago”

They thank me. I don’t know what to say.

We get into the RV and she hands me the ace of hearts. The world does not end.

“You have mastered the hearts. That dread you had about making that decision was false worry. That woman was just looking for someone to see her. The time you spent with her gave her the peace to be able to let go and go through that door. You don’t need to make the decision. You need to just comfort someone that has no hope, no peace. That is what the ace of any of the decks is. What does the person want, not what you feel.”

She hugs me for the first time. Then she says that clubs are for offence as well as defense. Back to getting beaten up.