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"Oh please, I'll just read it for everyone! Let's see," she said, flipping through the pages, "Here's the part I'm trying get you to remember. 'She reached out to rub her fingers along one of the arrows. Suddenly everything was dark. Her torch had gone out'," Anna read from the book.
As she continued reading Tim saw it happening.
Eimaj reached out with her hands, looking for the way out of the cave. She could barely see her own hand; it was so dark. She stopped and looked around. She felt she should be able to see better by now. There should be light coming from the entrance of the cave. However, it was just complete darkness. She turned around, and kept walking slowly, her hand in front of her, looking for the wall with the carvings. If she could start there again, maybe she could reorient herself. Maybe she just walked in the wrong direction somehow. She frowned. The wall should be in front of her by now. She hadn't walked that far. Her hand started tingling. She stopped and put it by her side for a moment, thinking she needed to get the blood flowing into it again. The tingling stopped as soon as she put her hand down. She shrugged and put her hand in front of her again, to continue searching for the wall. The tingling started again immediately. She put her hand down again and it stopped. She was beginning to get worried. She wondered if Semaj would remember he left her here, if she didn't make her way home soon. She tried her other hand. This hand tingled too. She decided it didn't matter. she had to keep going. With her hand still in front of her, she moved a step forward. The tingling sensation traveled up her arm, as she kept moving and she felt it everywhere. Then, as quickly as it started, the feeling stopped. She turned around and immediately felt pain. Her hand had crashed into the wall. Somehow the wall was behind her.
Tim was speechless. Why hadn't he remembered that? The girl in the story experienced almost the exact same thing he had when he first went through the wall. "She went through a doorway," he stated, "That was exactly how it was the first time I came through. Totally black everywhere. Except, I could see the secret room. It was like the wall turned into a one-way mirror. I could see the men searching for me, but they couldn't see me. I felt that tingling too! I can't believe I didn't remember my mom's story."
Anna nodded. "It was like that for me too, the first time I went through, though without the tingling. Once I went through everything was black until I touched the center of my key. I think it connected me to this world, so when I did that, the world appeared. I didn't try to go back. I knew I had to keep moving forward. But I recognized it right away- that nothingness surrounding you. Except one thing, Tim, like you, she went through the doorway, and back through it again."
"How did my mom know that was possible? Do you think she could do it too? Do you think maybe she tried to come home?"
Tim looked at Grandpa Cire and Grandma Aras. They both shook their heads. "We don't know, Tim."
Grandpa Cire pointed to the journals. "If she did, I suspect the answer may be in there."
He ran his hands across all the journals. He looked toward Grandma Eilime. "I can copy them, but I can't tell what they hold without reading them normally. Anna's right. Your power would be most helpful."
"But I meant the books- not the journals,' Anna started.
Tim gave her a look. She stopped talking. Eilime picked up the journal on the top of the pile. She closed her eyes. When she opened them, she said, "This one is from her time in school," she looked at the large number of books, "This could take a while, even for me."
They all chuckled. One by one, she touched the journals. After she had touched about half of them, the bedroom door opened. "Well, well, well. Isn't this a nice surprise?"
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
They all turned toward the door in surprise. There was a man standing there and he held some kind of weapon. "You!"
The man snickered. "No, not me actually. The man you think I am is my twin. He chose to live in the backwards world, but he did tell me you'd made it through. Thatβs how I knew to find you here! You should have gone with him, boy. If you had, you'd have lived a nice long life, oblivious to all of this," he said, waving his hand around, "but now I have no choice but to kill you."
Grandpa Leumas stepped in front of Tim, blocking hm from the man's view. "No, you won't."
Tim saw Grandpa Leumas' hand start to glow, kind of like Anna's, but it kept glowing, until he was holding a ball of fire in his hand. "His power's the only one out of all of us that could actually save us," Anna said.
Tim looked at her, wondering why she'd announce that, then realize, after seeing her terrified face that she hadn't spoken it allowed. He'd heard it in his head again. He focused all his energy into sending a thought to her. "Don't worry, Anna, we'll be okay."
He kept thinking the same thing over and over, finally, she must have heard him. She looked at him, in shock. "I'll explain later," he thought and directed it the same way.
She nodded slightly. The man, however, did not miss this exchange. "How did you do this? How can they communicate already?" he seemed almost afraid, then his face turned to steel, "No matter. I came to finish the boy, but the
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