Keeper's Knowledge (Balancer's Soul cycle)

Keeper’s Knowledge
(Book three of the
Balancer’s Soul
cycle)

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H. Lee Morgan

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Trespassers and Guests

As Sarah and
Connor
were making
their
way
towards
the
ir
snow covered cottage
he
kept trying to calm
him
self down
from a future of uncertainty
and it wasn’t working
as hoped
.
His
wouldn’t obey and
slow down and it felt
as if
an automatic machine gun
endlessly
fir
ed
away at
his very
nerves.
Ah for
only
a moment of
mental silence
.

S
now
completely
covered ground
around
the
forest they traversed and was
g
aining further
reinforce
ment
because more snow
kept falling
down from the sky at a slow and very steady pace
without seeming to come to an end
.
It was as if the snow mirrored his incessant need for peace, but wouldn’t be granted.
The clouds in the sky block
ed out almost all traces of direct
sun
light
and he
had to brush some falling snow off
his
brow because Connor
kicked himself for being
dense
enough to look up
. Most of the trees around
the forest
were all stripped of their
seasonal
leaves and were
also
now
covered with
the frozen rain
.
And with each crunching step Connor
couldn’t keep certain memories at bay. Unfortunately
as
a Balancer
his
memor
ies are far more vivid because he
still remember
s
every
tiny
detail
as if he relived them time and time again
.
It is like
his already
eidetic
memory had been supercharged after being brought into
this
new life
of immortals.

It is a gift as well as a curse.

Sarah is
his
three hundred year old
mate. She is a Balancer who chose
Connor
to be her
eternal
love
almost ten months ago
. The very first time
they
met
he
knew she was the one
because she was a woman unlike any other
.
Qualities like intelligence, sophistication and meekness were his first observations, but she was so much more that it is incomprehensible to put simply into
mere
words.
She turned
him
into a Balancer by fusing
their souls together.

Almost everything that
they
do as
mated Balancer
s is
completely
unheard of. Most of
their
kind
are normally limited to
maybe one or two elements th
at they can control. Sarah and Connor
can manipulate them all
and have gained enough energy to use them on a grander scale
.
They a
lso have other abilities that have never been seen before. For starter
they
can read each other’s mind. All
other
Balancers can read
another person’s
mind except
for
their mate
’s
. When
they
use a
large amou
nt of energy their
bod
y
will
literally
start to
glow
as
brightly
as a light
bulb that’s suddenly been flipped
on
.
E
yes aglow is also
a side effect from using the ab
ility
called
Sonar to
observe
everything around
them
at a rate that
they alone
can distinguish movement
just
as well as their
eyes can see
, if not better
.

Another
unique creature came in the form of his
best friend Mark
. He
is a
nine hundred year old C
hanger
. A Changer can manipulate their bodies
at will
to do miraculous things. Mark can change
the physical structure of
his body to resemble
that of
a wolf, but Changers cannot make a perfect transformation
and retain some slight human characteristics
. He can become a cross between a human and a wolf. He also can grow glossy black wings that he can use to fly
as if he were a falcon
. He calls that form
,
Fwen.

Connor’s
little
sister Kara fell in love with
his
best friend
rather
recently
,
even though they have known each other for years
. Apparently they began falling in love the night
Connor
ran off to save Sarah.
His
sister and best friend
had a major hurdle to overcome. They
couldn’t be together
in any intimate
manner
until she became like Mark. The only real problem
she had to think about
was that the survival rate f
or a human to become a Changer i
s at most
,
five percent.

Kara decided that she would take the chance
just
to be with Mark.

Connor
started a survival training class during the summer and Mark became
a
business partner and helped
out
with the customers. The very day Mark and
Connor returned
home
from
the
first
seminar
Kara
decided that i
t
w
ould be
better to do it
immediately, since her affairs were in order
.
Sarah, Mark, Kara and Connor
all
decided to use
the
cottage
fir its
seclu
sion
and not be interrupted
in any way during
the process
.
The process to becoming a Changer
is excruciatingly
unpleasant
and
more than often
deadly
.

When Mark mixed his blood with
Kara’s
she began to scream
in earnest
.
None will
ever forget those painful and blood curdling shrills
that still give
goose bumps
when
the memory returns
.
As a big brother we try to protect our younger siblings
from danger
, but the most difficult
, and only,
thing
Connor
could do was stand by and watch her writhe in agony.
During
the
awful
transformation
,
her heart
gave out
.
Connor
was able to
act quickly and had enough strength to actually make electricity with
his
elemental
powers. When
he
put
his
electrified hands on her, Kara’s heart began beating again.

When she
eventually
survived her transformation her eyes changed from chocolate brown to liquid silver. Th
e new silver eyes
prove
that she
had become
a
true
Changer. During her transition phase
from human to immortal
Mark
had
discovered that she was actually a Bone Changer.
Rarest of their kind.
They have the ability to use their bones as lethal weapons
and were known to be the deadliest
.

Later on
,
Connor
received
a call from Deputy Burrow’s about a missing girl in the woods.
He found her of course, but
also ran into someone
who wanted revenge
.

A pressure built within his chest as Connor remembered what he could never forget, but he still truged on since Sarah continued walking with him towards their home.

T
he all American high school quarterback
, Mathew
and
Connor’s
number one bully
during the
entire
school
ing
career
weighed heavily upon him
.
H
is
first
attem
pt at harming someone dear to Connor
was the
first mistake because he
tried hurting Sarah by making her fall off a desk
,
just because he didn’t study for
a history
test
and failed
. The second time was when he used a stun gun
a
nd his accomplice
Mr. V.
held
Sarah in a headlock. Connor
hoped
Mathew
might have learn
ed his lesson, but he didn’t. Mathew
tried to
murder him as he
was bringing Maggie back to her grandparents
, but was the one to
end up being
execute
d
.

Death never got easier, it never will.

His father
,
the County Mayor
,
showed up on
the
entryway
of
the Branderson’s
front
door
days later
. He was
as big a
bully
as they came
and it was
all
too easy to determine
where Mathew learned
to behave
and treat others
. The Mayor came over to accuse
Connor’s
family
for
his son’s disappearance, but
Connor
was able to make him lose everything
with the help of their
human
friend Deputy Burrow
.
The political parasite
was fired
from his mayoral position
and arrested for money laundering.
All investigation spotlights shifted elsewhere.