-Erika, again with your brushes! I told you to do your homework first.-
-Yes, mom, but now I have the inspiration. Watercolor is a technique that fascinates me and, I want to try it, making a seascape-
-I repeat, use that same inspiration for your tasks.-
-Oh! Mom, you're on another frequency. You do not understand me….-
-Grandma Chloe was always with me and she understood me. I never understood why they called her the sorceress teacher, nor why she was expelled from the school where she worked. What I remember is the two boys, James and Larry, who did an experiment and it took time for them to return to normal…. Can you explain me?. I promise I do the chores.–
-Erika the story is long but, as you promised that you will dedicate yourself to all your tasks, I am going to tell you. Listen, it's interesting, also I have to reveal something you suspect….
Your grandmother is not my mother, she raised me and gave me everything in her power. She was raised in an orphanage and the director, Mrs. Carol, was always struck by the fact that Chloe was attuned to both the elderly and children, regardless of social or cultural class. She placed herself at the level of the interlocutor. No one knew how he did it. In addition, she only had the imagination, of a 7-year-old girl, when she began to communicate with nature. He went to the nearby forest in the company and, complicity, of Mrs. Carol. Upon arrival, the breeze caressed her curly and long hair whispering things in her ear, the flowers expelled their aroma when she greeted them and the trees, ah! They were his favourites...
-Why?-
She said they gave her wisdom and energy. At the same time, she watched her dear Carol when, putting her arms around a tree, she connected with them. That connection was total trust. She was no longer tired... At 70 years old, she felt light, safe and linked to universal love... as if the whole landscape were part of her.
-Interesting…. But tell me, why did they call her the sorceress teacher?
-Yeah, wait…. Your grandmother graduated as a teacher and immediately began to work. She then studied chemistry. That got her a promotion. Go on to teach high school. She is assigned to chemistry classes. Up to this point, everything is going perfectly… but on one of her walks through the forest, the biggest tree, as she called it, whispers a magic formula to her to reach transcendental states of the soul. She immediately copies it, as it was late, goes directly to school and hides it in the library; placing it by title: change of frequency. She thought it would be safe there. Serious mistake. That same week the new cleaning lady, without being ordered, decided to give the library a deep clean.
-And what happened? I'm not interested in those details. Just tell me, quickly, what I asked you.-
-I'm going there. The paper with the formula went into the wastebasket. And from there the curious James and Larry took it. They immediately read it. They found it fascinating and…-
-Mom, I guess… They began to experiment. It's just that I seem to be listening to the conversation between them:
-Larry, we have to burn that paper. That formula seems dangerous….
-No, James. I would dare to try it. We are not losing anything.
-But Larry, if you change your frequency and you can't return to the one you have now, what would happen?
-You would tell the chemistry teacher. She must know how to reverse it, she studied for that. Let's go to the James lab, let's not waste time.
Erika, I continue…they arrived at the laboratory and, although they had doubts because it was missing an ingredient, they prepared the formula. Larry drank it. Then the two left the lab. They decided to go to the forest where the teacher was going. There was the transformation. Larry became a venerable old man of 70 years. But what scared James the most was the change inside.
-ha ha ha. Go on mom, go on...
Larry was in his time, he was 70 years old, he remembered the experiment as from a bygone era and even when he cried for the expulsion of the teacher. But he did not recognize his friend. This shook even more to James, only 14 years old, who ran to find Chloe. He told her what happened. Both went back to the forest where Larry had been. Your grandmother communicates again with the biggest tree. This tells her that, since the formula used was not the original, the spell would last 2 months and, to return to the frequency of 14 years of age, he had to take another concoction of plants. The main tree transmits the formula that she has to prepare and give it to him personally.
-And Larry took it?
-Do not. The headmistress of the school, hearing what had happened, immediately expelled your grandmother from school. Larry's enraged parents didn't want to listen to her. James insisted all the time to convince his friend's parents. After 6 months they agreed to contact your grandmother.
-And what happened? Did he go back to school?
No. Your grandmother made the preparation, Larry took it, and the next day he was back, apparently, a 14-year-old boy but with the experience of a 70-year-old man. They all celebrated.
-And what else happened?-
Larry maintained his inner transformation and was your grandmother's companion every time she went into the woods. Both enjoyed everything that nature taught them...
-And what did they do with that knowledge?-
They transmitted them only to those who were prepared for those teachings.
-Mom, now I'm going to do my homework.-
The sorceress teacher by María del Carmen Sánchez Copyright © 2022
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