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think I have ever seen one Ru’ach be able
to pull another one into air before.”
    I felt like I blushed. I hoped that no one
could tell.
    “ I am very glad to see you
helping each other,” he continued. Then Mr. Grangé left us to
attend some of the other students who had problems learning how to
fly lying down.
    “ Look who’s the teacher’s pet!”
It was of course Portia flanked by her friends Mai and Acacia. She
sneered. “In love with the teacher, are we?” Portia made kissing
sounds with her big red lips. “He is kind of cute, I give you that,
but I like them better with their heads on!”
    “ Leave us alone,” I
said.
    Portia lifted her nose and snorted again.
Then she and her friends soared laughing into the air. I tried not
to pay attention to their constant laughing at the others in the
class. It was like high school all over again, I thought. And that
was one thing I didn’t miss from my life on earth.
    After class we went back inside, but no
one walked on the ground any longer. We had simply discovered that
it was much easier to fly or just float a few feet above the
ground. Even Nigel floated, although he stayed as close to the
ground as possible.
    But he never walked on his feet again and
neither did I.

Chapter 6
     
     
     
     
    The next days were like an
adventure for me. A whole new world open ed up one class at a time, and soon I
was getting used to this new way of life. I hadn’t had much time to
think about my parents or loved ones or the fact that I was
actually dead. Instead we learned so many new things that I really
didn’t think I had lost my life any longer, but gained a new and
much better one.
    History with Mrs. Higgins still was the
most boring class, but I grew fond of it somehow along the way. I
enjoyed hearing about the Angels and all they had done and what
they were capable of. The more I learned about the Afterworld, the
more I realized that the Underworld and its demons and Se’irims
played a rather big role as well.
    Mrs. Higgins never wanted to go much into
it, but I sensed that whatever was down there was dangerous both to
us and to the humans who never knew it was among them.
    “ One of the things we Ru’achs
can do is to guide and help the humans,” Mrs. Higgins explained to
us. “We are what the humans like to refer to as their sixth sense
or intuition. It is something spirits can do. We can affect the
minds of humans and guide them in making the right decisions. You
could say that we are like the small cricket on Pinocchio’s
shoulder.”
    That made the whole class laugh and Mrs.
Higgins smiled as well at her own little joke before she continued.
“We are like a small conscience telling humans right from wrong.
But unfortunately, we are not the only ones there. The evil Se’irim
will whisper things in their ears as well and give them evil
thoughts. Thoughts that lead them to feel angry at someone or
something, thoughts that will lead them to feel greedy or want
revenge or feel jealous. For example if a couple is fighting, then
I can put thoughts in the woman’s head like, ‘It is okay; he
doesn’t know what he is doing. He doesn’t know he is hurting you
when he says that. There is no need to make this into a big deal.
Just forgive him. You know you love him.’
    “ But then the Se’irim would say:
‘He doesn’t love you when he says that. He doesn’t even care. No
one ever thinks about you. You do all the work around here, and he
does nothing. When is it your turn to relax and have some
fun?’
    “ Now the problem is we can’t do
anything more than that. We can place thoughts in human’s heads,
but they
must make their choice. They decide if they want to follow one
advice or the other. But if they choose the Se’irim’s advice, the
fighting will surely continue; if they choose ours it will stop.
Unfortunately humans don’t realize that the thoughts come from us,
therefore they often choose wrongly. It is in their human flesh to
choose feelings