You Receive an old Letter dated 1941 but Its from yourself
"Sarah" Jace, The mailman, greets me as I walk up to the Mailboxes. I wave Back to him in greeting. "How's the throat doing today?"
I sign "It's doing okay. How are you doing today?"
"I'm glad it's doing okay today. I'm doing good, I have a weird letter for you." He says as he starts digging through his mail bag. "Where did it go?" He says more to himself than to me. "Ah, there it is." He says pulling out an old faded yellow envelope. "We found this in the lost mail pile from 1941" he hands over the envelope carefully. Written in my weird half cursive was my name and my family home address, which I just bought from my mother three weeks ago.
I put it under my arm to sign "that's weird. I don't remember writing this"
He laughs and says "your great grandmother had the same name as you or at least that's what the records say when we looked up this address in the database. There is a high chance that she wrote it and it just got lost in time." I nod my head eager to get home to read it. I wonder what it has to say. "Actually it would be really cool to see if you post something about the letter on your blog." I look at him in surprise. "Yes I know about your blog. Your a very talented writer." He laughs lightly. "Now run along and read that letter. I can't wait to hear all about it." He waves me off.
"I can't wait to read it. I hope you have a good day today" I sign rather quickly making him laugh.
"Have a good day, Sarah" he says walking up to the Mailboxes and opening them and I quickly walk back to my home. As soon as I get home I head to my office and place the envelope on my desk. As I sit I run my fingers lightly over the writing. My stomach tightens and uneasiness with a hint of fear settles over me. An urgency takes over to open the envelope and find out what it says. I carefully open the top flap of it and pull out four yellowish paper with black ink writing over it.
Dear Young Sarah.
I hope this letter finds you well. This letter contains answers about what is going on with your body. No I am not talking about coming into womanhood. I am talking about the curse starting to affect you. If I did everything correctly you should be getting this right before you turn 25 years old.
I drop the papers onto the desk. Is someone playing a trick on me? Why would someone do this? There is no way that anyone outside my close family and friends would know that I'm about to turn 25 in a few weeks. This is so freaking weird. I pick up the papers again to try and figure out if there are any clues to who is behind this.
No, someone is not pulling one over on you. I know it may feel that way but my great grandmother left me a letter just as I am doing with you. You have great abilities. You need to know how to hone in on them and make them flourish. These abilities are a result of a curse that was placed on Xandera Marie Miller in 1689. The curse is that every fourth generation of our family their life is forfeit in the line of service. Mary Magellan cursed us with four abilities. The first one is the ability to tell when someone has the desire to harm those around them. This is the hardest one to gain control over. It is also the hardest to tell you how to gain control over it as it presents itself in different ways. Some of our past ancestors have had visions, others had passing thoughts and the worst one of it is the voices that tell you everything that they are planning on doing to the people around them. However it presents itself to you just remember that you are not crazy. I know that it is hard to do but it is what you need to do.
The second one is the ability to sense how someone is feeling by touching what they have written. Most likely when you touch the writing on this paper you sensed uneasiness and maybe fear. I can tell you the reasons for that is putting this into writing may get me killed and then you willnever get this letter. I'll never truly know if you get the letter seeing as my daughter, Mary Beth, is not talking to me which makes me even more fearful. This is the easiest of all the abilities to control, just be careful of where you touch paper that has been written on. You have to touch the writing itself for you to get the feelings.
The third one is the ability to predict the outcome of a woman's pregnancies. How many pregnancies they will have, how many of their children will live to birth and if they will live past birth and why they do not live. This is hard to deal with because you take on their grief and happiness. How this ability works is by touching the female and thinking about babies. Which also makes this ability easy to control. There is not much that needs to be said about this ability.
The last ability is hard to put into a good light. You will have the ability to see when your lover will die and how they will die. You have no control over this one, it will only show you how and when they die twice, I do not know when that will be but once you've seen it once you don't have to worry about seeing it again until 8 years have past then that will be the last time you see it.
I set the papers gently down. Someone has to be playing a trick on me. Someone has to be. Either that or they are giving me writing material. That's it. That's exactly what they are doing.
