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HOPE 1
It has been a month since we were able to vanquish the noise from the property and get rid of all the caped shadows in the city, but we still can’t get into Eternity Fae Forest, the forest is still protected against anyone going in or out. Dream has been painting her room as it is at Eternity Fae so that she can go there through the painting and let the others know what is happening.
Drez was opposed to the idea at first but when Dream suggested that he go with her he agreed. Ever since the moment that Drez opened up to Dream to tell her that they are in fact mates that they have been inseparable. I am happy for the two of them, they make such a cute couple and we all knew how Dream felt about Drez ever since she met him, but he was a dark horse and was able to hide his feelings well.
We have let everyone get back to their posts once we got everything up and running again, but we know that there is someone in the kitchen that is responsible for what happened here before. Someone poisoned the food previously, because when the shadows attacked the guards they were mostly drained. The Gargoyles on the turrets are still grotesques and no matter what we have tried we haven’t been able to turn them back into themselves. One of those Gargoyles is Shok’s brother which has him up in arms turning every rock trying to find who is responsible for this.
Yesterday, Trek, Shok my mom the Sovereign Fairy Queen and two of the guards went once again to the border of Eternity Fae to see if they could somehow find a way in. My Dad is still not up to going anywhere as the magic that was used on him has taken longer to heal than others that have been attacked before. Dream, Love and I have been healing his wounds every coupleof days, extracting the darkness from his wounds and filling him with Love and Hope, but we need Reality or Rea as we call her, and Vain here to add their magic to his healing as he gets better and then after a couple of days the infection starts setting in again.
“Hope!” I look over my shoulder at Dream to see her looking at me with a frown, “You didn’t hear a thing I said, did you?”
“Sorry I was looking at the guards training outside” my mind was actually far from the training and the guards there, but I don’t tell Dream that. I turn to look at Dream to find that the drawing that she has done on the wall is now finished, it looks just like her room at Eternity Fae. “You are finished” I state as I take a step closer.
“Yes, that’s what I was saying” I look at her to see her still frowning. “Hope I’m not sure if this will work, before I was only able to see what I painted, I’m not sure that there is anything else outside of the painting.”
“You worry too much Dream, it will be fine, just don’t forget to think of a way to get back when you going in or you will be stuck at Eternity Fae without us, and to be honest I would rather you be here.”
“Aww Hope, are you saying that you would miss me?” Dream teases, “I thought that your arguments with Trek kept you entertained enough.” I stick my tongue out at her in reply, it is true that most of the time we pick on each other more as entertainment then arguing, but Trek can also be stubborn and drives me crazy most of the time as he tries to order me around.
I know that he’s my personal guard and as such he needs to make sure that I am safe, but he doesn’t have to be so condescending.
“Are you missing him Hope?” Love asks from where she’s sitting on the floor reading a romance book. Love is a hopeless romantic and as her name predicts sees love everywhere.
“No, why would I be missing him” I ask sarcastically, “he irritates me most of the time.”
“I think you’re missing him” Love says with a cheeky grin and a wink at Dream.
“Stop doing that, I just think that mom should have let me go with them, I might have been able to help. I’m not missing him.” In truth I am missing him but maybe just a little.
“She’s very defensive, isn’t she Love?” Dream asks playfully.
“Don’t you start too” I mutter as I look at Dream that simply grins at me, “why don’t we concentrate on more important things,” I say trying to get their minds away from me. “I was thinking that we should monitor more carefully what Dad is eating. I find it very strange how the darkness keeps on coming back only after a couple of days and its never the same number of days, sometimes its longer and sometimes shorter periods.”
“You think someone is doing something to keep him like that?” Love asks as she stands, closing her book and placing it on the bed besides her.
“I’m not sure, it just seems strange,” I state.
“I agree with you, I have been thinking it strange too.” Dream confesses, “I mean, when we heal him there is no darkness left, how does it come back?”
“Maybe we should go and see if there is anything that he uses that might be manifesting this onto him, or we will have to take turns and stay with him, check everything that he drinks, eats, or touches that might be doing this.” I suggest as I look at both my sisters.
“You know what I have been thinking,” Dream reveals as she starts packing her paints and brushes. “Maybe I could start by going into each person’s dreams at night and try and find out if any one of them is the traitor.”
“Do you think you could pick it up from their dreams?” I ask.
“I’m not sure, but I’m thinking that I might see darkness in them and that would help us investigate if there is anything within them” Dream replies as she turns towards us, cleaning her hands on a rag. “I’m ready, shall we go see Dad?” she asks.
The three of us make our way out of the room and down the corridor towards our parents room, “You could try, I have been looking at peoples energy, some are darker than others, but nothing that would call out that they are a traitor,” Love confesses. Love has always been able to see people’s aura, or the colour of their energy, and usually know if they are good or bad. For her not to have seen anyone standing out makes me wonder if the person is even someone that works in the property, or if maybe just someone that comes to deliver things.
“You can do that with things too, can’t you Love?” I ask as an idea starts manifesting.
“Yes of course, I have learned with time to block it and only see it when I want to, but I can see the energy of people, animals, vegetation and even things when someone has touched it.” I see her eyes widening as she says the last. “Of course,” she says with a smile and a wink at me. “I can see if there is anything in Dad’s room with bad energy, that might lead us to who has put it there.”
We enter our parent’s room to see Dad sitting up in bed glaring at Thomas, he is my parents’ right-hand man and advisor. When he sees us his expression changes, he opens his arms for us to go to him. His wings are peeking out from behind him whichtells me that he has been up and stretching them out sometime earlier.
“What’s wrong Daddy?” Love asks as she sits on his right, hugging him across his stomach and kissing his cheek. His arm wraps around her as he lowers his head to kiss the top of her forehead. Dream and I are standing at the end of the bed, Thomas is still standing next to the bed on my dad’s left-hand side.
“Nothing my angel, it’s all good.” His voice is gravely and low, “You can go Thomas” he mutters, and I see Thomas tense, but he nods, turns, and then leaves. Dream moves towards where Thomas was and sits down on Dad’s left-hand side, his arm stretches out and he takes her hand as he smiles at her. “Why are you so far away Hope, come closer.” I climb onto the bed, crawling up I sit just behind Dream, her back to my front.
