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uncomfortable
that she was looking at me so intensely.
    Luckily, Shaul intervened swiftly. “A
virtual mind dream is bliss.” With a glint in his eyes, he pulled a
glass ball out of his briefcase. “All you have to do is look at
this crystal ball…”
    She turned to him
excitedly. “ Crystal ball?”
    “ Yes.” He looked around the
room. I assumed he must have been well aware that she loved
everything to do with crystal which may have been the reason he
chose to peek her interest with a ball of it. “Just concentrate on
the ball until your mind shifts to your desired
experience.”
    “ Are you saying I can have
any experience I want by just staring into the crystal ball you
sell?”
    His expression was serious now.
“That’s what I’m saying, Mrs....” he paused. “May I ask your
name?”
    “ Oh, I’m sorry.” She
blushed, her eyes twinkling in excitement like yellow diamonds.
“I’m Telly Belle.”
    “ Ha!” Shaul laughed.
“Related to Tinker Bell, are you?”
    Telly laughed too. “I’ve heard of her.
Ancient mythology.” She looked pleased. “I’m surprised you know
about Tinker Bell. But, no—no relation.”
    “ So, tell me your deepest
desire and I’ll help you experience it. The first time is
free.”
    She hunched down and got even closer
to us. “I want to see my daughter again.” Looking away, she pointed
at the pictures on the crystal walls. “There was this young woman
that used to live by the big lake below the forest’s cliff. She
used to ride her horse in the valleys and swim in our
lake.
    “ One day I was crying
beside the waters because my husband was taken away and forced to
live without me in Azkelon. The girl snuck up on me and put
daffodils and pansies in my long black hair.
    “ From that day on, we
became friends. But, I made a mistake.” She seemed tormented by her
memories.
    “ What mistake was that?” I
asked, though her story frightened me.
    “ I let her into my home.
Every day she came here to play with my sweet baby. Then I told her
the prophesy of my child.”
    My eyes widened. “What was that?” I
asked anxiously.
    “ I told her that my baby
was half air faerie and half siren and the reincarnation of the
first woman, Eve. I explained that she would join with Lucifer to
reattach the original apple to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and
Evil. After they accomplished that, there would be peace on
Earth.”
    I felt my stomach twisting in
knots.
    “ My friend became very
upset when I told her this prophesy. She said she heard the same
prophesy about a josephine which was an original creature who was
half faerie and half mermaid, but she was told the serpent would
trick Eve and not put the apple back, but instead he would eat from
the Tree of Life causing him and his demon race to rule the world
forever bringing forth hell on Earth instead.
    “ We had a terrible argument
that night and she left my house in a rage. The next morning when I
awoke, my baby was gone. I searched and searched, but I never found
Cordellia and I never saw my friend again.
    A rush of adrenaline shot through my
body.
    “ So, what I want more than
anything is to see my daughter and to know if she is
safe.”
    I didn’t know what to say.
The pieces started coming together. I just didn’t know what to say.
This brokenhearted woman sitting before me, in her beauty and
elegance, was my mother—my real mother. Mom had stolen me from this
woman.

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    “ I’m feeling a little dizzy
right now,” I whispered. “Maybe we should go.”
    “ Oh, dear,” Telly responded
with reservation in her soft voice. “You look a little green in the
face.”
    Shaul looked at me with concern. “Are
you Ok, Cordellia?” He asked, putting his hand on my
shoulder.
    The woman’s head jutted up.
“Cordellia?” she asked with surprise.
    Apparently realizing his mistake in
calling me by name, Shaul also looked surprised and maybe even a
little frightened that I might be upset with him. “I’m sorry,”