This place of mine is a little bit of a mystery, I must admit.
There is an energy source running underneath it, underneath the whole area in fact, but it is difficult to say what it actually is. Very often there is a power cut. We are plunged into darkness without any warning, and without power and light there isn’t really a lot that can be done.
Although, that isn’t entirely true. Centuries ago, before power was even thought of, the people who lived in those times would have handled the lack of power in their stride. They wouldn’t have missed their regular TV show, and instead would have probably had banquets fit for a king, with jesters providing merriment and entertainment; home made music and singing would be accompanied by general chatter; all lit by a roaring fire – or those torches you see on castle walls in medieval films.
For those who didn’t have the banquets, or weren’t invited, they would have probably had as much fun eating wild boar with root vegetables and drinking mead or dandelion tea, or something equally as old. I have a feeling these dark times, in these dark ages, were when everyone got together to talk, or grunt, over their day’s activities. Their discussions might have become a little ‘heated’ at times, but they passed the time until the light returned – or sleep set in, whichever was earlier. Well, some of them must have worked the night shift… there was still washing up to be done.
I went slightly off track there… I told you there’s an energy around here. I’ve mentioned a couple of times about my ghostly visitor who likes to switch on my music system, whenever she has replenished enough of her own power to do so. The energy that runs beneath us is not the same energy provided by Dot (my ghostly friend), I have a feeling it is older. Possibly as old as the Earth itself. Ooh… Dramatic pause.
This old energy, and I could be completely wrong here, is what I think may be in a Ley Line. The Ley Line is a way for the energy to be channelled to various other points around the area / country / world. It goes to where it is needed, does what it needs to do, and then goes back to where it originated from. How it knows to move, where it needs to go, and what it should do when it gets there is another mystery, and one I’ll think about looking into at a future time. Possibly after Dot has given me further information about the energies concerned. These Ley Lines criss cross each other every so often, and these intersections may have a surge in energy, especially if two bursts of energy meet at the junction at the same time. Now, energy has no end and no beginning, it is just energy, so when these two bursts meet they just merge, and then un-merge, and then carry on to their destination, so no fear of unwanted explosions or anything like that. Which, is a good thing, as I think Aquatom Mansion is built above one of these interchanges. It is also built on the site of an old school, but the interchange was there before the school… unless the school was there at the beginning of time. What has made me think about all of this is that I have bought several video recorders in the past that simply stopped working. They would power up and down, eject the video, take in the video, but they would not play the video. If it was one machine, I would have put it down to the particular model or the age. But it has happened to four different models. Four completely different machines, all developed the same problem. I moved into modern times when I bought my first DVD player, which after so many months wouldn’t play any DVD. It would eject and take it in, it would respond to the remote control, but it would not play. Coincidence? I do have a lot of them, but there is something else going on here.
So, back to the power cuts. No explanation for them. Nowhere else in the town is affected by them. They usually occur at night, when it is dark. I think for dramatic effect – well, they’re not really going to be noticed in the daylight as much, are they? Although, I have experienced them in the daytime too, so they aren’t that choosy.
I’m prepared now. I have lots of candles ready. I have a list of things for me to look at and think about (written in large and bold letters so they can be seen in the flickering light of the candles!), and can allow the energy to flow through me and provide me with any answers, or more likely, more questions for me to look into. Well, with energy that is as old as time itself, it must have picked up some snippets of information that it wants to share.
And I love to learn new things!
The Mansionic Perspective 
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