As they all woke up and met the others in the messhall for breakfast, Cahya sat across from Kendric and kept staring at him.

'Do you want something from me Cahya?' He asked while having an English breakfast. But Cahya just stared at him without planning to say anything. Zuberi and Kendric stared back at her.

'Cahya, hello? Anybody alive out there?' Zuberi asked.

'I admire you Kendrick, what you did yesterday. It was great!' And she smiled shyly.

'Oh that's right, you were looking through the satellites. But wait, admire? You did watch us right? Us, being totally clueless, not knowing what to do, being hopeless and all?' And Zuberi laughed while Kendric made some funny faces.

'I did, yes you had to find your way, but you did! You all did! You know these missions are as recieving lessons from a teacher right? Like field experiences. We get to practise our teachings, we will have many more to come. I hope I may join you on the next one.' And she continued eating rise from her bowl with her hands. It looked like the rise was sticking together in large blocks.

'It is called lontong. You can eat it cold or warm, however you prefer more. We normally steam them in banana leaves.' And she enjoyed her lontong.

Kendric loved this place, all the cultures that came together, all the different foods.

'Isn't this great? All our different nationalities.' He asked them with the biggest smile on his face. Zuberi, Kenji and Marcellus smiled while enjoying their international cuisine and tasted eachothers meals.

'Cahya, how about the rest of us? You want to go on a mission with us?' Marcellus asked her playful and quickly stole a lontong out of her bowl.

'Wow, this is great! Cold, but great!' He said while licking of his fingers and taking out another one. Cahya stared at him with some disgust.

'Could you at least not speak with your mouth full? It's grose!' And Marcellus laughed at her and some rise was spitten out right into her bowl. Cahya shoved away the bowl and pretended a little vomit comming up.

'Well, I think we know her answer Marcellus!' Kenji said and Zuberi fell of his floating golden disc seat from laughter.

'Luckily it was Cahya and not Harlow.' Kendric grimaced at his comment. Marcellus head turned as red as a lobster.

Marcellus continued his conversation with Cahya, he wanted to know more about Jane the AI and the computer network of the school.

Kendric saw Maynard sitting with Yrsa and her friends. He quickly turned around with an annoyed face. Kenji and Zuberi noticed it and knew inmediatly where this was coming from.

The didgeridoo was played by Master Ryka again. They looked up at the teacherstable and saw Master Uruk got up, preparing for yet another speech.

'He sure loves hearing himself talk.' Marcellus said, now looking annoyed also since he was busy questioning Cahya about her experience last night with the A.I.

Master Uruk had the flying UFO which functioned as a megaphone above him and began to scrape his throat again:

'Young truthseekers, as some know we had our first mission yesterday and it was a success. For those who didn't know nor participated, don't worry. Many more missions to come where you can develop your powers and practise your skills in the real world.'

He laughed with his mouth pulled up on one side again like Elvis Presley.

'Yeah well, real world. What is the definition of reality? That is where our focus lays today, reality. Waking up...

Today you won't be following your usual lights to your classroom. Today you'll recieve a reality check, be prepared!' Master Uruk got back at his seat at the tourmaline teachers table and continued his conversation with the other teachers.

'What do you think this means?' Marcellus asked.

They all pulled up their shoulders. Yrsa came running and sat down next to Kendric. Kendric felt his heart racing again, she even looked more stunning than the days before.

'Well, before we go into this mysterious lesson of reality, I wanted to talk with you guys first. That was awesome yesterday, scary ending right?' And she looked at Kendric. He totally forgot that the ex wife of Master Uruk came so close while he could escape just in time.

'Yeah, it definitely was.' He didn't want to think about it.

What happened if she would've caught me? This mysterious founder slash truthseeker slash traitor? Do the Negatives kill people? Kill fellow truthseekers?

Kendric's thoughts raced around in his mind again. Fortunately Zuberi noticed Kendric's overload of emotions and thoughts and he decided to interrupt this uncomfortable conversation by talking about his experiences of the Isle of Skye. How he could picture the movie Braveland there and how cool the dinosaur fossils were. Kendric could understand Zuberi being so enthousiastic about their travel to Portree. He imagined the next mission in some other country and how he would react himself by seeing all those beautiful places. He couldn't wait for them to go out on a mission again although he sincerely hoped they would go better prepared the next time.

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Then he heared the angelic choir singing again and eight orbs were floating infront of the tourmaline teacherstable before the stage. They sang so harmonious, it was mesmerizing. Kendric felt his heart raising, he would see his grandmother again. It made him so happy. He loved her so much and when she died it was so horrible. The orbs materialised again and there she was. As beautiful and friendly looking as ever, exactly how he reminded her. She gave him a friendly nod and it made Kendric feel all warm inside and deeply loved. Next to her stood J.P. and he raised one arm and more than 100 orbs came flying in. When they materialised Kendric noticed they were all teenagers like himself.

Master Uruk stood next to his grandma now and began to speech, again...

'The spiritguides are here today to help you grow. Normally we would do this at the end of the year, but since the very real threat of Mes-Sanuri we need to fast track everything.

Today, you will all be appointed one guide. Please form a long row and come forward. Kendric, you will be first this time.'

Kendric walked up front and looked at his grandma. He so wished to talk to her but the guides stepped forward and this girl stepped out of the line up. Although they were materialised, neither of them had a colour. You couldn't say if they were having black, brown, blond or red hair or which color their eyes were. They weren't transparant but they looked more like the people in a black and white movie. Charlie Chaplin look a likes. His grandmother, J.P. and the others were in full colour. He wondered if it had a reason the children didn't had any colour.

As the girl stepped towards Kendric, Master Uruk signed him that he could return to his table. When he walked back to his table, the girl followed him. As he sat down, she stood behind him in silence while the other children recieved their own guides and walked back to their seats. Zuberi and Marcellus both had a girl also as a guide but Kenji and Yrsa both had a boy. The guides were all standing behind them in silence and it felt kind of awkward. They stared right in front of them, into the empty, or whatever they were gazing at. When all the children were back at their tables with their guides, Master Uruk continued:

'Your personal guide will be with you this whole day. As some of you may know, a human has more guides than one. Sometimes your circle of guides changes, as you enter different stages in life. Than you will need another field of expertise, which is why some of them that you have today in your circle, you will not have tomorrow. Depending ofcourse on what happens. But some will stay with you your whole life. The guides who stand behind you today, are the ones who have bin with you since you were born. Well actually even before you were born, they guided you into this life. Helped you with choosing your parents if there wasn't a previous connection already. They know you through and through. There is no one better equiped than your guide to give you a reality check. Lying won't make a difference, so try to be honest and honor your connection. As your guide deserves the upmost respect.

Well then, I all wish you much wisdom with your assignment today.'

All the kids remained clueless, not exactly understanding what the assignment was. Were they supposed to talk to their guides, wander off? Kendric looked at his guide and the girl smiled at him.

'Hi, my name is Charlize. I am so glad we are gifted with this time together. It is nice to be finally seen.'

Kendric wanted to introduce himself but he knew this wouldn't make any sense. She probably knew him better than he knew himself. But what do you say to your guide? He decided it was best just to leave it at a simple hello. Kendric saw all the others talking to their guides, he heard Zuberi laughing with his guide while reminiscing.

'Yes we can do that also Kendric but I think we have more important things to discuss, don't you think?' And she looked at his grandma who was tangled in a conversation with Master Uruk.

'Don't worry, your grandmother will join us later. Let's seek for a more quiet place ok?' But she didn't walked to the exit, she walked to the wall next to their table. She laid her hand upon the wall but nothing happened. At least, Kendric didn't see anything appear or something.

'Well, walk through it,' Charleze said while being impatience, 'just like your ghostmovies.' And she giggled. Kendric didn't want to fool himself by walking straight into a wall, so he put his hand carefully against the wall and it went straight through.

'Awesome!' And he looked at Yrsa and the guys and waved.

He stepped through the wall and he noticed they were in his house, at home...

He ran around looking for his parents. His mother sat at the couch reading a book. He stood in front of her.

'Oh mam, I missed you so much,' he wanted to hug her but his arms went straight through her. He didn't understand. His father walked into the living room, he ran to his dad and wanted to hug him but stepped right through his dad.

He looked uncomprehendingly at Charlize and asked her: 'Am I dead?'

'Well actually worse, you don't exist for them!' And she pointed to a picture hanging on the wall from his parents and grandparents. He remembered when this picture was taken, that was a great day, it was on one of his birthdays. On the original picture, Kendric stood right there in the middle. But on this one, he wasn't there. He looked at his parents who didn't seem to notice he was there.

'But how?' He asked Charlize while feeling so confused right now. But Charlize went up the stairs and he followed her, she entered his bedroom and plopped down on his beanbag.

'I have to give it to you, being death is not the worst thing actually. I learned a lot of cool stuff. But man do I miss to eat and hang, just hang, doing nothing. The spiritworld everything goes so fast. Although there is no time there, it is like the atmosphere we live in is very dense and we need to travel at highspeed. Our molecules are racing there and it really can be exhausting.'

She stretched out on his beanbag.

'You don't realise how nice it is to do nothing, just nothing at all.'

'How about my parents?' Kendric asked her as he tried to swallow his sadness.

'Remember what Master Uruk told you guys? You are temporarily forgotten, erased, paused...'

Kendric remembered, but to actually see it, how you are erased. It kinda hurts.