Within days of this second MIB visit I decided that I had to cut my links with everyone concerned. I knew I could not stop what I was doing, not in the face of veiled threats. I still continually marvelled at the fact I had let this man into the house without even asking who he was, it seems astonishing, even now, that I was incapable of any protest in any way at all. I think it was a week or two later that I got one of my letter packages from Clive Potter. Shelagh picked up the mail and gave this one to me. I didn't even take it out of her hand. I said, instead. 'I don't want it, I must not even touch it.'
She was taken aback by this news because I hadn't even mentioned this change of circumstances to her, so she stood holding his letter out and gazing at me rather confused.
'I don't want that letter, nor do I want you to open it. I must not have any more communication with Clive.'
Shelagh asked me at that point to explain why and so I did. I had told her about my own MIB visit but I glossed over the veiled threats as I didn't want to worry her. So now was the time to tell her, tell her that I needed to press on with my work, but try to do it alone. She then said 'Well, I hope you don't mean me. I'm part of what you do, you need me to communicate with red Eagle.'
'Not if you could be at risk.'
She laughed at that and said 'I think we've been through enough together, I think whatever it is, is running scared.'
I just smiled at that and hoped she was right, rather than just hopeful.
She asked me what I wanted to do with Clive's unopened letter and I told her just to put it away safe, I did not have the heart to destroy it. I just wondered how Clive would feel when he got no response from me. Send more letters that painfully I would have to refuse to touch and open? Would he think I had simply abandoned him with no good reason or warning? Something about that MIB remained with me and I guess the warning must have hit me very, very deep. As Shelagh dropped the envelope into a draw and closed it, I thought to myself,
You stay safe, Clive.
Three other people also suddenly lost contact with me. I just could not afford for them to have any communication with me, but my healing patients, like Liz Frampton, (who had seen the shape-shift in a mirror,) still came round for their sessions
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I now need to bring another strand into the story, which entails going back to late 1983. Shelagh had by that time established a communication with a number of intelligences that at one point or another were giving us some direction and non-conflicting information. One morning Shelagh discovered a new one. We were walking home from a morning in town when she suddenly said 'There's a man walking behind you, at your right shoulder.' She described this man as being in his mid-30s, although he may have looked quite a lot older. Shoulder length mid-blond hair that was curled up at the bottom. She said he was wearing segments of plate armour, such as on his arms and a breastplate. He wore a surcoat over this, which was a dirty white with an oak tree on it. This man, she said to me, was called Brienne duBois and claimed to be my younger brother in 14th century France.
This was news to me and I wasn't sure how to respond at first. I told Shelagh that I needed to know more about him first before I know what to think. The story she got from him is that we had been brothers and lived in a keep, some small castle, owned by me as the older brother in longeuville in France. Brienne apparently, and unknown to his brother, Charles, was aiding a former Knight Templar who had evaded captivity when the order was arrested, he was hiding out in a cave and Brienne was keeping the fugitive supplied with food. This Templar, Guy De Lurelie was a big influence on Brienne, and Brienne in turn became one of a small group who formed around Guy.
I was very slightly suspect of all this because at the time the world was afire with the revelations in such books as The Holy Blood & The Holy Grail, which featured Knight Templars, Cathars, Divine Bloodlines and everything else that was to later be again popularised in The Da Vinci Code. But the difference was, Holy Blood wasn't fiction it was
fact, and set Europe alight with treasure hunters. So it was in this climate that we were introduced to a brother from a past life and links to a renegade Knight Templar.
I eventually felt comfortable enough to keep him around and establish a more detailed communication with him. Shelagh, just as importantly felt the link was legitimate, so far as she was able to sense. As with all else, the communication with Brienne was strongest when we were at Whiteknights. This area seemed to be a very strong power source that we had come to respect, and with or without the dog, we would often come over here for the extra energy it offered us.
We spent several months getting to know Brienne and through our medium, we came to like each other a lot. But then one night, probably about three months into things, I had an astonishing encounter. I was asleep and had a dream or OOB where I was at the mouth of a small cave partially hidden by trees and bracken. I felt compelled to walk into it. It was small and was lit by candles. on a small wodden table. I saw light from other sources as well. I suspect from torches in sconces on the cave walls, but cannot be certain. at the far end was a small wooden bed covered with old woollen blankets and some furs. On this lay a man dressed in dark, what might have been woollen, clothing. The darkness of the attire might have been a result of the semi gloom, I do not know. He looked at me and I was startled to see his face was marked with spots, ulcers and sores. It looked a mess!
I approached and stood a few feet fom him and I still see that face clearly in my mind when he said in a very aggressive and threatening tone 'Leave Brienne alone, or you will have me to contend with.'
That was it, that was all he said. but his eyes were tinged with red, like a very heavy bloodshot. I put that down to a condition of his ill-health, perhaps pox, something like that. I woke up the very next moment. But those words were still burnt clearly into my mind. I knew I had been to see Guy De Lurelie, and for some reason he considered me a threat.
Seeing him didn't surprise me as much as you might think, because of a night I was starting to move quite freely in my sleep-state. Not always accompanied by Red Eagle, but almost always for a purpose. I did not know what to make of this, empty threats? I wasn't sure, and to be honest, I wasn't too bothered.
It was a few weeks later, we were at home watching television. Well, Shelagh was, she had a passions for anything Tudor and was watching the BBC series 'Six Wives Of Henry VIII' Keith Michell starred, and she thought he portrayed the best Henry VIII. I was reading a book. For the last few weeks, ignoring the impotent warning from Guy, we had continued to talk to Brienne, about his life, about the life he claims I had with him, and we had formed quite an interesting relationship through Shelagh's clairvoyancy. However, things suddenly changed. While we were sat absorbed in our individual pursuits, Kali, our Alsation was lying asleep on the rug. Then Kali lifted her head and a low growl sounded in her throat. We both glanced at her and with a slight chill I saw she was looking directly at me.
'You ok, Kali?' Shelagh, asked soothingly, puzzled at this sudden attitude.
The dog continued to stare at me and growled again, low, rumbling and definitely threatening. Kali was so gentle and sensitive. She never liked Shelagh's husband and would always crawl under the bed when he was around, that is how sensitive she was. But here she was now, suddenly growling for no reason and staring at me with those red eyes ...
Red eyes?
Shelagh could not see the animals eyes because she was sat at an angle to me, so I told her that Kali's eyes looked very red and bloodshot, not normal at all. I slowly stood up as I made gentle soothing noises to the dog. As I stood, so did kali, now that DID start to scare me because the growling continued AND she was starting to bare her fangs - she never did this!
'I think I had better leave the room.' I said quietly and as calmly as I could. 'Something is spooking her.'
Then I realised where I had seen those eyes before. Guy's were bloodshot and red. kali's were the same.
'Guy?' I said.
Shelagh closed her eyes and concentrated as best as she could with a placid dog now unexpectedly snarling and taking a step towards me, saliva looping from her fangs.
'I can't see him, he's not in his cave.'
'I know that.', I said, 'that's because he's in the fucking dog!'
I backed away towards the door and suggested Shelagh tries to join me. But as she pointed out, the dog was focused on me.
Leave Brienne alone, or you'll have me to contend with
Those words came back to haunt me in more ways than one as I edged towards the living room door with the dog pacing a few yards back, but following me, head bowed and hackles raised. I lost my nerve, turnde and ran for the door. Kali barked furiously as she chased me. I got to the door and for a heart-stopping moment, fumbled for the door handle. But I got through and slammed it behind me.
I stood with my back to it, ragged gasps coming from me, accompanied by a pounding heart and a dog scratching with her front claws, trying to scrape through the wood! I didn't know what to do now. I called through to Shelagh asking if she was safe. She called back and said she was fine, she said the dog had no interest in her at all, it just wanted to get through the door. She then told me to just stay out of the room.
The end was a little anti-climatic because Shelagh said the dog simply seemed to loose interest in me and the door, she stopped barking, returned to the rug and flopped down to sleep. It was ages before I felt confident enough to return to the room. But that night I found myself back at the cave. I walked in and saw guy lying on his cot. Beside him was a figure I seemed to know was Brienne.
Guy stared at me and his eyes bored into me and said. 'Brienne is mine, stay away from him or there will be worse to come.'
Indeed, there was worse to come.