The Aura of Love…A Puzzle for Your Pleasure: Prologue!

Let’s have a little fun with my novel, The Aura of Love!

To start, read the excerpt below the puzzle.  Once you have the excerpt embedded in you head, you can work the puzzle in one of two ways. 

Solve online at The Aura of Love: Prologue, or if you need paper and pencil in hand, right click and click on Print Picture.

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NEWSNOW                    AUGUST 2004                        PAGE 25 

 The Beings Amongst Us

By Anonymous  

It sits somewhere in the east Caribbean, its exact location unknown. The Island, as it’s called, looks just like any of the surrounding ones to those able to see it. The lush vegetation snaking across its surface…unseen. The white sand of its beaches as each grain emerges from the green, yet clear waters…unseen. Its mountains, its hills, its grasslands…unseen.

The inhabitants of this island use their extraordinary powers to veil its very existence.

If you could see beneath its veil, you would find beings of a dark hue that look remarkably like their human relatives. Their houses, their schools, their theaters, their beaches would convince you they lead ordinary lives…working, playing, learning…just like you and I. The blue or purple auras surrounding each individual would be the only indication these beings are vastly different.

If you could see beneath its veil, the view would not reveal the tension between the blue and the purple. The tension created by the past oppression of the purple by the blue. The tension created by the lingering prejudice of the blue, the lingering mistrust of the purple.

This is the story of those beings, known only to themselves as Auralites. Do they exist? I’ve been told they do, right here among us, their colorful auras visible only to them. True…false? Reality…fiction? You decide…

          As Remy reached the end of the story, her hand clutched the magazine so tightly a small tear appeared beneath one finger. The ice-cold fear winding its way through her body was overwhelming, a paralyzing force. Arms, legs, lungs…frozen. Ohmigod! Who could know? She took a ragged breath while attempting to grab the others’ attention, but she accomplished only a nearly soundless grunt. 

Solve online at The Aura of Love: Prologue