A Coral le brillaron los ojos con una esperanza renovada. Siempre había tenido magia entonces, sólo que, para manifestarla ante el mundo, tenía que creer férreamente en ella… y hacerle mejor publicidad!
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t is said that her grandmother Teodomira could put curses on her enemies. She knew that her mother, Mrs. Marina, had predicted several winning lottery numbers, and she had healing hands. Her older sister, Cecilia, could communicate with spirits, and make magical concoctions for various purposes. But she, the giggly little Coral, had never demonstrated any magical gifts.
She pretended to have them. Of course she did. Whomever would ask, she would tell them that she was a witch too. She wore long, dark dresses, hung chains with mystical stones around her neck and adorned her ears with dream catchers instead of earrings; she had obtained a family heirloom to ward off bad energies, and a wooden wand to give strength to her incantations.
However, the most magical thing Coral had ever done had been to see a ghost; and not even a very impressive ghost, but rather one of those tired, self-absorbed savannah ghosts that everyone sees when night falls, the ones that come out at crossroads without traffic lights, or in alleys without lampposts.
She had also seen a UFO once, but that was considered more an event of science than of magic, so, although she loved to tell that anecdote, it didn't really give her any credits.
But Coral swore she felt magic flowing through her veins. From time to time, (when she was alone, so as not to be embarrassed) she would try to attract some object with telekinesis, or focus all her senses on detecting the presence of some specter, but the results were always in her imagination.
She paid devoted attention to all television shows that had to do with magic. "You never know what real tricks might be hidden in fiction," she would say, and imitated her favorite characters in the way they talked or walked.
Coral's blood boiled when she heard that some neighbor, with completely ordinary parents, happened to demonstrate magical powers, while she, with a whole line of ancestry specialized in the occult, uselessly spent all her desires in asking for her abilities to blossom soon.
She had been begging for it since she was very young. At first she wished for some of her favorite powers to manifest, such as telepathy, levitation, or astral projection, but in her mid-teens she realized they were taking too long to show up, and changed her wish to simply asking for some power to manifest, any power! Regardless of whether it was something boring like omnilingualism or psychometry.
She reached adulthood and the wish remained unfulfilled, so she gathered her sister and mother and told them:
"I feel like a disappointment to this family. I don't have any magical gifts."
"How so?" her mother was surprised, "You have aura of protection. Every time we go out together nothing bad happens to us. Do you remember when we were narrowly saved from the accident in the subway, or from the crossfire on the avenue?"
Grumbling a little, Coral slightly nodded her head.
"Also an aura of good luck." Her sister added. "Remember that fifty dollars I found on the boulevard floor? Or how fast the bus comes every time we leave late?"
Coral smiled a little as she recaptured those memories.
"But it's nothing really remarkable, like yours," she complained.
"That's because you're not doing things the way you should." Marina replied, this time with a serious tone in her voice. "Instead of looking for better magical power, you need to start taking pride in the ones you already have. Talk about them, give them energy, and you'll see how they grow."