“Just concentrate on it. Relax your mind. Remember, the goal is to see it as an actual rope. Touch it in your mind, smell it. Feel the texture of it in your hand. Now, tell me what it feels like, what it smells like, how thick it is. Imagine this as real. Don’t let anything else enter your mind except the sound of my voice and the reality of the tether. Focus. Breathe. Relax. How clear is it? “
“It smells like wood shavings, it’s really thick, like the kind of rope that you would use in a tug of war. It’s a bright red, because it’s really strong. “
“Now, how will you sever it?”
“With my hands. I don’t have anything to cut it with, but I know that my hands will be enough.“
“Now sever it, but you have to concentrate and be sure that you do it completely. You have to believe and you have to actually see and feel it severed. How do you do it? Describe it to me in detail?”
“I wrap my hands around it. My hands are like red hot lava. I can see and feel the steam coming from my hands. Even though the rope is thick, I can see the smoke rising from the rope. Tendrils of it are starting to slowly burn. The red paint on it is gone where my hands are burning it, the fibres of the rope are really smoking now. It’s singeing and starting to get smaller. I squeeze it harder and small black specks of ash are starting to blow from it. It’s almost entirely gone.“
“Don’t lose your concentration, focus, until you can see that the rope is completely gone.”
“I’m doing it, it’s really thin now, most of it has been blown away in specks of ash. My hands are flaming hot. The heat that’s coming from them is even blue like a flame. The rope is completely incinerated. It’s gone.”
“How do you feel?”
“Fantastic. It was so easy. Why was it so easy?”
“It wasn’t, remember, we’ve been practicing for months. “
“Thank you so much. It worked right?”
“Of course it did. Don’t go looking for confirmation yourself, this is very important. When you do get your confirmation, please make your last payment. We’ll give you a month. Remember, if you don’t pay after a month, if we can teach you this imagine what we could do to you.“ She winks while she says this.
It actually worked. Pity there’s a one year waiting period to do it again. I’ll just have to wait it out to get the rest of them.
“Are you really going to see some crack pot who is going to teach you to kill someone with your mind?”
“Of course not. It’s not like I believe that the only thing keeping us all alive is some thin tether between life and death anyway. I’m taking your advice and seeking professional help. Someone to talk to. That’s what you wanted right?”
“Yes. Killing the people who took her isn’t going to bring her back, remember that.”