Guardians

Dear god, please take away our superpowers

Why isn’t she praying? Ask her to pray!

Pray, Rosette, pray!

Rosette, you’ve reached the end of your mission, you have to pray!

Pray? Why pray? I liked my superpowers. I liked that I could talk to higher powers. I ignored their requests, but continued to reply them.

But I like having people to talk to

But Rosette, you have got to pray!

It’s the only way!

You don’t want us to bother you anymore right?

But I like talking to you guys! I whined to them.

Look Rosette, if you don’t pray we’ll be keeping our powers forever and we’ll forever be reading one another’s minds and we’ll never be able to sleep. Is that what you want?

But I thought you didn’t need to sleep.

Well technically you don’t when you have the powers, but don’t you want to rest, even just for a little while?

I like being able to talk to people with my mind. Even if I can’t see you guys, I’m glad I have people to confide in. Most people don’t even understand me.

Look now Rosette my dear, once you reach the end of a mission you have got to be stripped of your powers so you can be normal again. Get some sleep, go back to school. If you want to keep your powers you’ll be banished to hell for your greed.

I was unhappy still. Dear god, may I keep the superpower just so that I have someone to talk to when I am lonely? I promise I won’t use it for anything else. You can strip everything else, but when I say I’m lonely, will you send my sister Roxanne to be with me?

But that means Roxanne will have to keep her superpower too! She’ll never get to rest in peace!

I don’t mind. It was Roxanne. She’s my sister. She’s missed me so much ever since I died. I want to keep her company when she needs it.

My eyes filled with tears.

As you wish.