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“What happened?”
“I felt…” Tentatively, she reached out with her fingers and touched the wall again. “There’s malevolence in this wall… or maybe something evil made the wall. I’m not sure which, but it’s not good.” Scrambling over Isaac, she fumbled to her feet and yanked at him. “You have to get off the mattress! It’s not safe to lean against the wall.”
Thankfully, he got off the bed without questioning her. “What if we conjured a bedframe with a headboard?” Isaac asked. “There isn’t enough space in this room for a comfy living room suite.”
She knew he was trying to take the focus off the evil permeating the walls, and once more she was thankful for his patience and easygoing attitude. In all the time they’d been together, she had just taken it for granted, thinking he went with the flow because he only wanted sex. That wasn’t it at all. Isaac was patient with her and knew how to keep her calm.
Not wanting to dwell on that either, she looked at the mattress. “Should we disappear the mattress and start again?”
“Sounds good.”
“What are you waiting for?”
“Nothing. I tried to disappear it, but it didn’t work. You try.”
Kate focused on the mattress, but like her body when she tried to flash, it stayed exactly where it was. “Nope.” She shook her head. “I guess we can bring things in, but can’t send things out.”
Isaac frowned. “That doesn’t make sense, but then nothing about this room makes sense.”
“Oh…” she said, as a thought came to her. “We’ve tried to send ourselves and the mattress out of the room, but they’re big. What if we tried something small?”
Isaac’s grin seemed bright in the low light. “Like a note?”
“Exactly.” Kate conjured a small piece of paper and a pen. “What should we say?”
“Since we don’t know where we are, we can’t tell them a location…”
His words trailed off and for the first time since she’d woken up, she sensed a loss of hope in Isaac. Maybe sometimes he did need her to be the strong one. “No problem.” She kneeled on the floor with the piece of paper, using the hard surface to write. “We’ll just tell them we’re alive, in another dimension, and to look for us.”
When she was finished, she jumped up and handed him the note. “Why don’t you do the honors?”
Isaac took the note, but it remained in his fingers. He handed the note back to her. “You try.”
After several attempts, Kate laid the note on the mattress and tried not to let the disappointment settle in too deep. “That’s a bust. Let’s conjure the bedframe.”
Working together, it didn’t take them long to conjure a bedframe and box spring and haul the mattress on top. And if Kate purposely conjured a few too many pillows and a flowery blanket that she’d never use at home, that was okay because she got Isaac to laugh.
They stripped down, leaving their clothes in a pile on the floor. After tossing most of the pillows to the end of the bed, they crawled inside and pulled the blankets over them.
Kate snuggled into Isaac and was drifting off to sleep when she felt him shift. “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing. I just remembered you had your phone in your back pocket.”
She sat up as Isaac had done as her phone drifted into his palm.
“You don’t think we’ll be able to call out, do you?”
“No. And you have no reception,” he said, turning the phone to face her. “I just thought it might be good to keep track of the time.” He conjured a battery block and cord and plugged the phone in.
“You’re charging it? Doesn’t it need data?”
“No. As long as we keep it charged, the internal battery will keep the calendar and clock working.” He passed her the phone. “You’ll need to unlock it and turn off any apps running so it won’t use as much battery.”
Kate took the phone. “One, zero, two, eight,” she said as she unlocked her phone. “That’s the password, you’ll be able to check the time. It’s the date I bought my land. October twenty-eighth.” The purchase had been such a momentous occasion for her that she would never forget the date. It had been a turning point too. Maybe today would be another one. November twenty-fourth. One, one, two, four.
When she finished shutting down all the apps, she passed the phone back to Isaac. “It’s the twenty-fourth today.”
“I know.”
