Chapter 1

ROSALIE worked as a steward of the city where she lived, the city of Rotterdam. Their group of twenty people was a project of the city and composed of different descents. They were named 'City Stewards of Rotterdam'. They were defined as the walking information. Walking thru the streets of the city and helped people found their way or helped tourists, if they ask about events in the city and to guide what is worth seeing or to do.

The City Stewards, before they go to streets walking in two, take their time in drinking coffee while others tea in the canteen with a limit of five minutes after their briefings were just done.

Rosalie was partnered on that day with Isabel. Rosalie came from the Philippines and Isabel from Peru, South America.

The route assigned for Rosalie and Isabel that day was in the vicinity where there's a Paranormal Fair.

While walking thru the Fair, Rosalie noticed a tent about Aura, for an amount of seven euros, you will know what your Aura is.

"Do you believe in Aura?" Rosalie asked Isabel.

"What is Aura?" Isabel asked Rosalie as she looked at the tent where a banner says, 'know your aura'.

"Well, people say, that is the color of the energy that surrounds our body," Rosalie explains to Isabel what Aura is. "It says here, if we pay seven euro, we will know the color of our Aura and they will explain the meaning."

"If you like we could try." Isabel became interested and said to Rosalie that they could try.

"Yes, for a long time I want to know what my aura is but don't know how could I, and now it's my chance," Rosalie said to Isabel. Enthusiast they both entered into the tent.

Two people were inside the tent, a man and a woman. There's a camera and while Rosalie was sitting waiting for her turn, as it was Isabel first whose Aura will be read. Rosalie observed as a photo was taken of Isabel. The camera is a polaroid. The photo that came out from the camera was given to the woman that sits by the table with two vacant chairs across her. The woman called Isabel to sit by the table in front of her.

While Isabel was sitting by the table across from the woman, the man takes a photo of Rosalie, and the photo was also given to the woman. Rosalie was invited by the woman to sit near Isabel.

The photo of Isabel was the first one analyzed by the woman. Both Isabel and Rosalie saw that the color yellow surrounded Isabel in her photo.

"The color of your Aura is yellow!" the woman said to Isabel. "Do you know what it means?"

Isabel shook her head. "No, I do not know."

"Well, it says that you are a happy, cheerful person, people like you to be around with. You have confidence and is full of energy." the woman said to Isabel. Isabel as to confirm that what the woman said about her is true just nodded.

"You are social and most of the time people could not handle your bright personality that they would not take you seriously." And the woman said many things more about the Aura of Isabel until she warned her to be aware of people, vampire people that will only drain her energy.

Then it was the turn of Rosalie's Aura to be explained.

"You have a nice and rare color of Aura. I seldom see this color of Aura." And the woman let Rosalie see it in her photo. "You see, the color of pink that surrounds you."

Indeed, in the photo, the color pink surrounded the picture of Rosalie.

"You are gentle, pleasant, sensitive, intuitive, and creative. People felt comfortable with you and you are full of feminine energy." and the woman continued explaining more about Rosalie's Aura.

Rosalie and Isabel when they came out of the tent realized that one's Aura, says about the characters of a person, their traits.

"I only could not understand why that woman warned me about vampire people?" Isabel said to Rosalie.

"She meant not literally a vampire. What she meant you must be aware of vampire people that will only suck your energy." Rosalie replied to Isabel.

"That is what she said, but what does she really meant, I don't know!" Isabel said.

"Don't tell me that you really think vampire as it is. The vampire that sucked blood from your neck? Rosalie made a joke to Isabel.

"You never know," Isabel answered. "Vampire people that suck your energy. The vampire sucked blood. Blood is energy!"

"You believe in vampires? It's only a fiction story, it is not true. it's just folklore!" Rosalie said.

"If it is not true, why that woman warned me about vampire people? I think vampire people really existed." Isabel indirectly was admitting to herself that she believed in vampires.

"Okay, if you believe, then believe it. Me? I do not know. I do not believe in vampires." Rosalie said, then she looked at the other tent with banners that say, KNOW YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL. "Look, I like to know who my guardian angel is."

"It will cost us money again," Isabel said and looked at what Rosalie was pointing.

"So what? We do not always have a Fair in Rotterdam about Paranormal things. If you believe in vampires, I am sure you believe also in angels." Rosalie tried to convinced Isabel and make a joke to her. "If that woman warned you against vampire people, I am sure you will be interested to know who your guardian angel is so that you know too who you will call in case."

"Okay, we go inside that tent." Isabel agreed and they walked to the tent that advertised about a guardian angel.

When they entered the tent, there's no client. Sitting inside was only a middle-aged woman in front of a small table. Rosalie and Isabel saw pencils and drawing papers.

"Welcome, how can I help?" the woman welcomed them when she saw them entering the tent.

"We want to know who our guardian angel is," Rosalie answered the woman.

"Okay, you are in the right place. Who will be the first to know who her guardian angel is?" the woman asked.

"Me!" Rosalie answered. She and Isabel had already agreed that Rosalie must be the first to have the reading.

"Alright, you may sit by the table in front of me and your friend could sit near you if she wants."

The woman said that if Isabel wants to sit to listen or witness the reading for Rosalie there's a vacant seat near Rosalie.

"Yes, I want to listen!" Isabel then sat near Rosalie.

"Before I begin with the session, please no talking to each other." The woman told them, and then she said to Rosalie to look her straight in the eyes. "Look me straight in the eyes. I want to see your soul inside."

Rosalie for a while doubted. She thought maybe the woman will hypnotize her but then she did it, she looked at the woman straight in the eyes, they looked at each other for quite of time until the woman talked.

"I am honored to sit in front of you, My Majesty!" the woman was talking to Rosalie. Rosalie was confused. She could not follow the woman or understand why the woman addresses her as 'My Majesty'. Rosalie looked at the woman askingly.

"As I look through your eyes, I saw your past life far away." The woman said to Rosalie that she saw her past life.

"My past life?" Rosalie asked the woman while her thought was, how could the woman see her past life by just looking through her eyes?

"Yes, do you want to know who or what are you in your past life?" the woman asked Rosalie.

"Yes, please tell me," Rosalie answered as she was curious who she was in her past life.

"You were a princess and later became a queen!" the woman told Rosalie that in her past life, she was a princess that later became a queen.

Rosalie, when the woman said that she was a princess and queen in her far past life, began to be interested and so Isabel too that was just listening. Rosalie thought true or not she wanted to hear what more the woman had to tell.

"Wow, that was interesting," Rosalie said as she was delighted to know that she was a woman of power in her previous life.

"It is interesting indeed." The woman agreed. "When you are a queen, you are love by your people."

"Maybe because I am a good queen," Rosalie said.

"Yes, you do many good things but…" and the woman suddenly stopped talking, and when she talked again her voice trembled. "Everything changes and it's not good."

"Why? What had change?" Rosalie was curious. She was first skeptical and really doesn't believe what the woman was telling but even she, could not understand, why she wanted to hear more about the past life of her as what the woman told. *To be continued* Remedios Dorio