As with my other stories/threads, there is no legacy or challenge in this story. There's more of a 'plot' to this one than my other ones. Joshua Parker had... rather an odd childhood, he'd say. No...
Joshua was unsure how to feel about his next counselling appointment. He'd always preferred facts and logic and certainty, and there was no way of knowing what would come up. He was optimistic by nature, though, and went in with an open mind. Ayesha greeted him with a warm smile and they went into the little front room. "How are you feeling today? You seem a little uncomfortable," she remarked. "Oh wow, you're great at reading minds!" Joshua replied with a laugh. "Well, when you've been a psychologist for as long as I have, you become very good at picking these things up," Ayesha smiled. "I know counselling is tough for a lot of people." "It's more... well, I like logic and predictability, and it's hard to predict exactly what's going to happen with these sessions."
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"That's alright," Ayesha said. "I've met a lot of people like you. In fact, I'm the same way to a certain extent; most people are." "Of course." "I just wanted to pick up on a few things from our last session. I gathered that you felt your mother forced you into things, without you really having a say. So I find it interesting that you became a Spellcaster as a teenager. How did that pan out?" "Oh, I never told my mother," Joshua explained. "She didn't notice me leave the house. I loved reading fantasy books as a kid which mentioned wizards and magic, and then Emily, my wife, told me she was a Spellcaster and that her parents were too. We lived next door to each other and became friends. She also told me you could didn't have to be born a Spellcaster and could become one, but had to wait until you were a teenager. So that was pretty much the first thing I did after my birthday."
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"Do you... umm... know much about Spellcasters?" he asked. "A little. I know they can be somewhat secretive, but that's mainly to do with not casting spells in public," Ayesha said. "OK. Yeah, we keep to ourselves. Anyway, I went to Glimmerbrook, which is the ancestral home of Spellcasting..." - here Ayesha nodded - "... and found the portal, and went through it..."
"... I bumped into this guy who seemed quite knowledgable, and he said he was one of the Sages - who are, like, experts in their chosen style of magic - and he said he could transform me into a Spellcaster..."
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"... and he did. It was an odd process physically. I started levitating and felt very... odd all over, I can't really describe it. He then told me that I was now a Spellcaster and could learn and cast spells and create potions."
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"Then I went to an area where you can purchase spellbooks and potion ingredients and stuff, and I happened to bump into Emily. She was my best friend at the time, and then became my girlfriend and is now my wife." Ayesha nodded, smiling. "I told her that I'd become a Spellcaster and she was so excited. She thought it was really cool."
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"Right," Ayesha said. "That's an interesting story." "Oh?" Joshua replied. He had a sudden worry - did she think he'd become a Spellcaster just to impress Emily? He voiced his worry. "I don't think so," Ayesha said. "Perhaps that might have been a small part of it. But think about the way you went about it." "Huh?" "I want you to try and come up with your own answer. A lot of therapy is about encouraging patients to come up with their own ideas and solutions, with the therapist's guidance." "Oh. Well, I didn't tell anyone about it," Joshua said. "Exactly," Ayesha replied.
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"Well, aside from Emily of course... but that's different." "Why didn't you tell anyone?" "It was none of their business. I mean, I had a nanny who was really kind to me, but I knew she and Mum spoke a lot about various things and I didn't want anything to slip out." Joshua went quiet. Ayesha kept looking at him somewhat expectantly. "I wanted to do something that I had chosen to do, rather than have someone tell me to do it." "Very good! Ayesha smiled. "You took control, likely for the first time, and did something that fundamentally changed you."
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"Huh," Joshua said. "I never thought about it in that way."
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