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“If you know what is to pass, are you going to tell me what I have to do to stop the shadows, and how I can get back home?”
He grins as he looks over his shoulder at me. “Well, I might if you pay me.”
Argh, I just knew it. “I don’t have anything with me to pay you with.”
He turns fully to look at me, his expression now serious. “I will tell you everything you need to know; all you have to do is when you get back home, draw next to me my very own pot of gold.”
Of course, how did I forget that I could pay him like that? “Fine.”
“Okay, then, listen carefully. To beat the shadows, you need to figure out their source and destroy it. Only like that will they go back from where they came from.”
“Is that all you have? That is kind of obvious,” I mutter.
“Is it obvious that it starts with the sound?” he says as he raises a brow sarcastically. “You know how to conquer the shadows with light. Now you have to find a way to conquer the repelling sound.”
I knew that sound had to have something to do with what was happening. I wonder what they found? I need to get back to tell them that we need to stop the sound.
“But remember, the sound is a means used and not the source. To win this war that has been waged against all of you, you will have to find the source, and only then will we be free again.”
“What’s the source?”
“If I knew what the source was, I wouldn’t have told you that you had to find it, now would I?” he says with a shrug.
“Okay, you have answered one of my questions. Now for the other one.” I really need to get back now that I know that we need to stop the sound.
“You know the answer to that one. Now think, what were you imagining when you walked into your painting?”
I close my eyes, thinking back. What did I imagine?
“I don’t k . . .” I start to say, but as I open my eyes, I see that he has gone. I start to wander around the pool of water, seeing the path that leads up behind the waterfall, and then suddenly I remember what I was thinking when I was touching the painting. Rushing up the embankment, I slip a few times, but I finally make it behind the waterfall. My heart is racing. If this does not work, then I might be stuck here forever. “Please, please let this work.”
The darkness of the cave surrounds me, the sound of the rushing water behind me crashing down into the pool. There is nothing but darkness. Am I mistaken? Closing my eyes, I imagine my room, the window open, the sound of the birds outside, the breeze blowing around me. I hear the sound of the others moving around the house as they go about their day. Wait . . . the sound of the others? Opening my eyes, I whoop. I am back. I was so scared that I would never get back.
CHAPTER 7
“Oh, my word, where have you been? Do you know how worried we have all been?” Vain says when she sees me walking past her room. I stop and turn just in time as she comes barrelling against me, hugging me close.
“What do you mean?”
She pulls back to glare at me, “You have been gone for two days, where have you been?” Two days have gone past since I entered the painting, how is it possible? While I was there it felt like only hours.
“In my painting” I state distractedly
“What? What do you mean your painting?” I see her frown as she takes a step back, her eyes roving over my body. “and you are still wearing the same clothes you were wearing when you disappeared.” I look down at my black tights and dark red tunic.
“Dream!” Love calls as she looks out of her bedroom and then she is running towards us. Her arms are around me and she is hugging me close kissing my cheek. “You here, oh I was so worried.” She says and then she is stepping back, “Did the men find you?” there are so many questions and I haven’t even started to answer Vain’s ones.
“No, and I wasn’t gone” at my reply they both frown
“Well, I beg to differ” Vain says as she places her hands on her hips, “we have looked all over the place and trust me, no one could find you. The men have been out searching, Drez is out of his mind thinking it’s his fault.”
“What?” why would Drez think it’s his fault?
“I’m serious, remember when I walked past your room and told you that I was going to practice magic?” Vain doesn’t reply but nods, “well, I was touching my painting one minute and the next I was in it” at my statement both of them stare at me with a surprised look on their faces.
“Are you saying that this whole time you have been in your wall?” I glance back when I hear Hope’s voice, Reality standing next to her on the landing to the stairs a suspicious look on her face.
“Not my wall, but my painting” I say, “I closed my eyes thinking about how the water would feel on my skin, how I could hear the birds chirping and the next moment when I opened my eyes I was standing in my painting.”
