The Spirits Within
~ 1 ~ The awareness came slowly as Jonah Fairburn grew. Most of the feelings came to him in his dreams of floating souls, which he had quite regularly. For the first fourteen years of his life, he didn’t know what they meant. His parents told him that dreams were strange things. Because they were both quite religious, they believed that dreams were God’s way of talking to us. He loved his parents and they loved him. He had no reason to doubt them, so that’s what he believed. His parents, Michael and Sheila Fairburn, were Catholics, so that’s what Jonah became. Every Sunday morning since he could remember, they went to mass, They all sat together and listened to the mass. But in all that time, Jonah never really heard God speaking to him. He never heard anything but the occasional cough from an old person and the priest going on in Latin. And of course, he heard the murmurs in his head. Jonah was a handsome boy. He was also a popular boy too, because he liked ...