Awakening (Children of Angels) Read Online Free Page B

It is possible! You know it is! We’ve already done it! And this time will be easier, it doesn’t matter if you make a noise, you already know you’re doing it!”

    Right on cue, Mia heard a bump in the hallway. She looked at the door, then wide-eyed back at the Angel, who nodded brightly with a grin.
    “See, Mia, you can do it! You already have !”

    And so once again, Mia focused, focused on what it was like in the hallway. Dark, everyone was in bed, there would be no lights on. Chilly. But if she stood on the runner, her feet wouldn’t be too cold. The cat would likely be lurking out there, she’d have to be sure not to stand on him or trip over him.

    She felt him brush against her leg and purr, and heard the Angel’s muffled voice through the door.
    “…don’t let me down now! It is possible!…” She turned and once again the Angel was standing beside her, beaming with delight. She nodded, and put a finger to her lips, gesturing towards Mia’s parents’ door, behind which they slept, blissfully unaware of the truly bizarre things happening down the hallway. The Angel gestured towards Mia’s closed bedroom door, and Mia moved to open it, tripping over the cat and bumping into the table as she did so.

    She gasped as she realized that was the bump that she had heard whilst standing in her room, and once again turned to her companion with wide eyes.

    The Angel laughed softly and nodded, and gestured once again for Mia to open the door. She did so, walking back into her room in a daze, half-expecting to see herself staring back open-mouthed.

    “ You made it true, you know - tripping over the cat ” laughed the Angel. You believed you might trip over him in the hallway, and so you did. So you did ” She laughed again.

    “ How did you know that? ” asked Mia, her head cocked to one side as she looked at this stranger beside her “ Can you read minds? ”

    “ No, silly girl. I told you. Things like mind-reading and time travel are the inventions of the human mind, a way of explaining the unexplainable they see around them. It is simply another Truth. Humans lie - it is a fault of theirs. They put their faith in beliefs instead of in Truths, and it ’ s important that we, as angels, can distinguish between a belief, a Truth and an out-and-out lie. ”
    “ But why? ”

    Looking at the young girl before her, so curious, so full of questions, so ignorant in so many ways, the Angel wondered how it could be possible that this child was the one they had all waited so long for. Surely, if the Truths were correct, and she had to believe that they were, then she should know something . There should be some hint of recognition, of familiarity with the stories she was telling her. But the wide-eyed curiosity and the girl’s stubborn belief that this was all just part of a dream, told her that this girl knew nothing of what or who or why she was. She wondered how long she had been thinking, had the pause been too great? An understanding of the human perception of time was difficult for an Angel to comprehend. Time meant nothing to them. Only Truths mattered, and in Truths, time was irrelevant.

    “ Because, Mia, we rely on them to do much of our bidding in this world. Angels cannot be seen to have direct influence over human lives. And there are certain things that we must trust the humans with. Things we must know have been done. ”

    “ Things you can ’ t do yourselves? I thought Angels could do anything. ”

    “ Yes, in certain Truths that is the case. Nothing is truly beyond our capabilities, so long as there are Truths to back us up. But one important Truth exists, Mia, a universal and unbreakable Truth - Angels cannot know the true thoughts and intentions of other angels. Angels can conceal, Angels can lie…and Angels can betray. ”

    “ Like my mother ” Mia said quietly.

    “ Yes, Mia, like your mother. Had we known what was going through her mind, what she planned to do … .well, rest