Charley’s Mirror

Robyn went to unpack, grabbing what she had to stuff into the wardrobe. Being ravenous after the long flight, all she wanted was some of her mum’s familiar cooking. She rummaged deeper into her suitcase, scrummaging for the mementos she had souvenired along the way to give the family. Something tumbled out from the bundle. It was Charley’s mirror.

“Oh no!” she said casually to Calvin. “I borrowed this just before we left and it must have been wrapped with everything else in my suitcase … I guess I can post it back.”

As she placed it on the top shelf and shut the door, Robyn did not notice its silver glowing, and the feint hum coming from its frame.


-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

At the Airport

At the airport both parents had made the journey to greet her. They had aged. Or maybe, they were always that worn, and she had not noticed before this just how tired they looked. Hot sun and hard work can weather the farmer.

After hugging and exchanging introductions, they bundled into the car for the ninety kilometre drive out to the farm. The gravel roads slowed them somewhat. Looking out at the landscape, Calvin thought that the greenery looked anaemic- this country was dry as tinder, a tangle of twigs, dust clouds and blackened trees. He kept his observations and comparisons to himself.

-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

The Mysterious

Calvin was not one to embellish his words - he preferred to say what he meant, and to mean what he said.

And so when he would tell Robyn that he loved her, it was sincere and heartfelt. They were peaceful in each other’s presence.

Equally so, there had been a shift of consciousness that had remained with him, ever since the healing on the beach.

Calvin had not been told about the details that followed. All he knew, was he had found himself praying, and Francis had literally come back from the dead afterwards, and God came closer to him in that moment.

He could feel, at the back of his mind, something that was familiar with this event. How could the mysterious feel so unmysterious - so natural? And yet, it was. This interior awakening to God the Father had felt more real to him, than reality itself.

As an Australian, Robyn was easy going about this change of perspective. She was fairly relaxed about everything - her nature never saw contradictions in people - only evolvements.

-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

Plane to Australia

Calvin looked across Robyn through to the window, watching the blur of deep orange smudges, as the plane descended into the dust of Australia.

“I just know my family will love you,” she said happily, as though reading his apprehension.

Inwardly Robyn was incredibly grateful to have Calvin by her side - and to be going home at last - it seemed impossibly blissful to have her two worlds meld. All of the people she loved the most would be in the one place together - how great was that?

-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

A Genuine Love

Love is unreasonable, it does not rest on, or require, qualification.

No word or chapter can lead or leap into love - and so, all we need to know, is that Puck once found a genuine love, beyond affection and attraction, for Marley; and, that she - though human - had known love with him also.

Love with one, does not preclude love with many. Whether human or other-worldly, the spirit within can love many with this especial substance - for there are aeons to fill, and places to travel.

However the passion between these two was perhaps made concrete in the mutual love for their daughter also, with a certain fixation for her wellbeing, having brought their orbits closer.


- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

The Intuited Connect

Love happens upon one with no back story, no mammogram for finding, no karmic recall.

It is in a moment, or collection of moments, where the airs of Heaven are breathed from within, where the intuited connect, where the spaces between one soul and another, gives birth to the fairy dust that will form the future worlds to come.

-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

Water the Remedy

“The remedy for all ills, is therefore continually with us - it is all around us, and it need only be activated. Yes, the Fountain of Youth, is …. simply … water.”

“Tap water?”

“Yes.”

“Sewer water?”

“Yes.”

“Seawater?”

“Yes, yes, yes.”

Suddenly it dawned on her - the simplicity of deep magic.

“Nature has her wisdom, even if we don’t”, he said rubbing his forehead as though trying to evacuate the misthoughts of the Human world.


- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances