The Magi: Terrance: Energy Healing (part 2)

[k_a_webb]

Part 1

Sheryl looked at Terrence and he knew that she was about to ask him a question that more people wanted to ask him than dared to. He was the son of the matriarch, so everyone was careful around him even though he wanted to be treated the same as everyone else. Marnie had warned him, telling him that his position would make things difficult for anyone to treat him normally, because she’d been treated like that ever since she started training. Then again she’d taught him almost everything he knew, as their mother wasn’t happy about all of her children being healers, which he could never understand as the Magi had always been healers and always would be. At least that was what he believed, thanks to Marnie.

“Why did you become a healer?” Sheryl asked, sounding unsure.

“Mother never wanted me to, so to begin with I did try other things because I wanted to make her happy. That was before I realised nothing would make Mother happy.” Terrence shook his head. “While I was attempting to do something else Marnie asked me to help her gather some herbs one night. I think she did it purely to give us somewhere we could talk without being overheard by Mother or anyone else. She asked me what I wanted to do with my life and I told her that all I’d ever wanted was to be a healer, like her, like Aunt Lorna…” He sighed. “Maybe Aunt Lorna is why Mother was so against me becoming a healer, but in the end Marnie managed to convince Mother that I needed to walk my chosen path instead of rambling aimlessly.”

Nodding, Sheryl smiled at Terrence. “I’ve worked with Marnie before and she always believed that she was born a healer. I think it’s the same for all of us who chose to become healers, but at the same time…” Sheryl bit her lip. “Your mother was taught to heal, because she was a daughter of the matriarch, even though she was never a born healer. Most of the Magi have some idea of how to make basic healing potions. Everyone still views us as the healing race when things have changed so much since we first left Carne land and sometimes I hate it. We are not all healers, even though we are all Magi.”

“I understand what you’re saying.” Terrence had heard it all before from Marnie and he was beginning to understand why his sister was so angry about things. “It wasn’t until I had a chance to work with a group of healers that I realised how few of the Magi really do chose to follow the path that we are all meant to take. We are now the minority within our race, which means we have to do more work to help the growing populations.”

“We’re only permitted to use one of what used to be our main way of healing, using energy the way you did, in emergencies, because the matriarch is scared that it might go wrong. The problem is using it in emergencies only means that it’s more likely to adversely affect whoever we use it on.” Sheryl sighed. “None of us are allowed to go into Carne territory, even though some of us do still have family living there, and it’s all a mess.”

Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.