Maybe you remember
how a while ago
(If not take a look inside
Jade´s Letters, 26 Nov 2013)
we got lost in times and spaces…
Well it took a while,
but the pieces of the puzzle
are finally starting to
come back together.And the plot-line
had uncovered!Still the most important part
of plotting remains
to remember
that
Not Every Line´s a Border
and
Not Every Border´s a Line.
Thank You!
~.~~~~
Part 0.1
~~~Some time ago,
you might recall,
the forest threw a wicked party.
We might have had invited
some unfamiliar guests
(which no one really knows for sure,
the parties here tend to get a little wild
at times.)
But anyway, we all had gathered
by the fire, while Jade was telling
us
a story – the one with her admirer,
the secret lover-teacher-pirate ghost
who used to live above her
in an old apartment building.
…
We all were listening quite carefully
when suddenly…
Oh! No! –
The Earth had started shaking,
the whitest bright light had embraced us
in a second.
So blinding and breathtaking.
Was it fear? My
amygdala responded –
‘yes, my dear, indeed! that´s fear!’
…Well.. should I run now? –
I jumped aside, but I was blinded
by the light. Then shockingly the trees and all
start cracking. It felt as though the ground
was split in two.
And all the animals were shouting…
What was I supposed to do???
I must have fainted…
…
For about a moment later, maybe two,
I´m waking up – the humans and the animals
all bent above me and in shock –
stuttering some stuff:
‘The shaman and the time’…
‘The warrior… what happened?’
…
‘I do not know, now, let me see…’
I replied, then dusted myself off a bit.
I stood up and looked around,
the others were now quiet.
And so was all – I took a second look,
the fire – running low,
no wind, no sound –
a stagnant flow.
‘Something must be wrong, I know.’-
my heart was telling me.
The darkest darkness following
this brightest light!?
An empty feeling in my stomach
telling me my heart was right.
It´s all so quiet now. And all so dark…
We needed to deliberate.
Alanis says.
…We sat there and discussed,
the humans were so nervous and suspicious,
could not concentrate at all,
at least the other animals were with me,
following my every argument,
the bestest team that one could ever ask for!
Cooperation´s not our privilege,
it´s our nature!
The humans though, they had to strive a bit
when working under pressure…
…Quickly we had come to some conclusions.
We had to find the source of all this mystery occasion.
There were (at least we thought so) several options –
a sorcery was possible – dark magic from within the Woods,
or maybe (quite the usual) –
a human failure with machinery of sorts,
or just the Universe had had a seizure.
(there were some even stranger suggestions,
but let´s stay serious here, as the topic demands…)
So first thing´s first – we needed to investigate.
We sent the Eagle for surveillance from above,
the Wolf was our connection to the city –
he had a german shepherd Dog as friend.
The other animals remained the way they were –
to keep observing here, our modest camp.
…
While we´re discussing,
the humans had just noticed something –
that some of them were missing.
The Shaman and the Warrior –
our special guests,
had mentioned something of a mission –
a castle in the Woods
they were supposed to find and conquer
and to rescue someone´s wife… I think…
(I did not get that very clear,
the humans were all trembling…)
Yet my first thought was –
‘That must be our hint!’So we proceeded in the night,
My cousin
Jade, her husband
Will and I –
Wapiti,
took off into the wilderness to find this secret castle.
(Little did we know back then that it would later on become our home…)
The Woods were dark, we had to walk a while
to reach up that abandoned road,
that was supposed to lead us there (as the Eagle had reported.)
At the crack of dawn we reached the dusty path.
It seemed that no one visited this place for years.
We continued silently until we stumbled on a spring.
We stopped a bit – the humans had to get some rest and take a sip,
then find some food. And as we searched I noticed something –
my lovely cousin seemed not to be very happy.
Usually when she smiled (and to me it seemed she´s always smiling),
the whole space filled up light and colors and sensations.
But her aura seemed so messed right now – all greys and muddy greens and filthy shadows. Something´s wrong – I looked at her, she turned her head the other way – there was a problem and that was her sign for me, her eyes had never had before avoided me… Was she so frightened?
‘Come with me, Wapiti, please!’ – she´d read the questions from my mind
and reaching out her hand she had me follow her away from Will.
‘I am not scared…’- my cousin whispered. – Please, close your eyes and take a peek inside my head.
She sat down quiet on a stone, her eyes were shut, her mind wide open, allowing me to view her visions…
…
In a fraction of a second she showed me all she´s been through
in the last few decades. She´d never had allowed me so much deeper…
I will admit, I was quite overwhelmed with what I saw – there was almost as much sadness as there was her bliss…
But the last part of her insights bothered me the most…
I looked at her and worriedly I asked her:
‘Jade, what´s wrong, dear? Are you sick? … and all that´s happened –
all this flashing and the earthquake… did you know about them?’
‘Yes, love.’ – she replied. – ‘I knew it´d come,
just wouldn´t have expected it so soon.
And Wapiti, dear, please do not tell the others
but it´s time for me to go…
I´ve been sick for years now and I hid it for the best of all.
Will noticed, I believe, but hasn´t said a word –
he´s so involved in all his schemes and games and riddles,
that he neglected me a bit…
I guess he thought that I would stick around forever
(and how I wish I could), but you know me – love is all I am.
And recently I noticed that my husband´s love for me is slowly dying.
So am I – it feels like I’m dissolving into thin air.
I´ve been getting weaker all this time
and all he tells me is – ‘Hold on, be like me, be stronger!’
But I´m not, Wapiti! I´m so sorry!
Oh… how I wish it wasn´t all a game for him,
but I can see it now – he´s just a man
and sometimes men just have to let things go
just to learn and grow…
And remind themselves of what they had forgotten.
That´s what he always teaches us, you know?
So I´m sure that Will can manage…
And the rest, the Woods, love… Oh…’
My cousin Jade had burst in tears…
It broke my heart to watch her
and there was nothing left for me to say –
I just sat and watched her turning greyer.
‘Kiss them all and tell them that I´ll miss them
and although I might not be there anymore…’
sniveling she added,
‘…know that, dear, my love for them forever shall remain!’
And she went silent for a moment,
bowed down gracefully and from her shoe she took and gave me
a little bag she said I’m not supposed to open yet.
‘Give it to the twins, they´ll need it!’
‘Wha..’
‘They´ll need it!’
‘What twins – I was about to say, but you did it,
(Read my mind again!) Right?’
‘Yes.’- she smiled!
(my baby cousin smiled again and she’s so pretty!`!! Oh… –
my heart´d just sighed.)
‘They´ll need it… when you meet them.’ She replied.
‘I cannot tell you when and why –
you´ll know when it´s the time.
I have to go now.’
And she disappeared as usual,
leaving me bedazzled in her way.
…I turned my face back to the spring
and saw her standing with her husband.
And I could hear them speaking as I saw…
A tall blond man approached the other shore.
The haze above the water made him look unrealistic.
His skin was shimmering, his heart lit golden –
shining through his naked upper-body skin.
the golden light reached with his hand
above his head – the hat of straw –
and as he took it down
in front his stomach
his deep blue eyes were lit –
he´s staring Jade as if he owns her…
…
At first I thought she hadn´t seen him
´cause she went to Will and said:
‘I love you, Love. I´m always with you.
And you know it.’
She kissed him slightly on the cheek and added:
‘I´m glad we had a chance to be together.
But I will have to go now,
meet my shepherd…’
And she reached behind her back
and showed towards the stranger.
Then she looked him in the eyes,
like hypnotized, she smiled (still grey-ish),
entered through the water
and swam out towards him,
kissed the
Sheep who´s drinking water
on the forehead and stood up
facing the warm stranger.
They looked each other in the eyes
as if they knew it all,
then hugged and kissed
right there – in front of Will.
I looked back at him just to see
Will´s jaws are paused – wide-open,
(had to check – mine too!),
his eyebrows showing me
she just had left him too – bedazzled –
in her own way.
But what had actually happened?
Who´re these twins Will did not even know about?
And what had actually happened?
Seemed to me as the beginning
of a wicked mystery-adventure,
that was bound to happen
(Jade would say.)
~~~
Part 0.2
~~~We stood there in the morning mist –
the Spring, my dear late cousin´s husband Will and I – Wapiti,
(no idea for how long),
we could not grasp just what had happened…
My lovely Jade was gone –
she´d let this unfamiliar man just take her with him
and left us with a bunch of memories
and with some baggie
(for some twins I had not met yet.)
The dawn kept cracking
and as the sun rays start to burn
I turned and noticed –
Will´s expression hasn´t changed a single bit.
He stood there with his jaw wide open
and in shock –
he could not comprehend or say a thing –
so devastated.
His aura started changing too –
from living creature (human) to a mourning statue.
‘Something needed to be done.’ –
thought I to myself. – ‘There must be something I could say.’
…
And at this very moment a noise came from beneath the bushes –
the Snake – she´d witnessed all –
‘It´s time to change’ she said in calming manner,
‘I heard the Wolf is on his way…’.
‘You hear that?’ – somewhat hopefully I turned to Will.
His eyes, though, staring still – the water surface.
And he wasn´t blinking (which had got me worried now a bit.)
‘Hey, Will?..’ – I turned to him again.
‘Wha… What´d just happen? No… that wasn´t real.
I feel her still.
That simply wasn´t real…’ – he murmured.
(He neither moved his head, nor blinked.)
‘Now that´ssss denial…’ crawled the snake right there between us
and just before she disappeared she turned to us and added:
‘And the Wolf is on his way. He´ll meet you at the cassstle.’
Something in her eyes suggested there´s a smirk.
(I never got her sense of humor.)
What I was mostly worried now about, was Will, and his denial,
and how were we supposed to go on through our journey
when we were both so broke and devastated?
…
‘Should we take a rest?’ – I asked him unconvincingly…
(I did not think he would recover…
He seemed to be a walking-dead.).
‘I do not know…’ – he answered, opening his mouth the slightest bit.
And then just fainted – a ton of sorrow collapsing to the ground.
For a second there I thought I lost him too,
but as I kneeled to him I heard him breathing
so I took him on my back, I found the road and carried him along.
…I must have walked for hours,
the road was dusty and my mouth was dry,
and Will was huge and lifeless –
not an ease to carry,
but in my determination that there´s something we could do
I was so absent-minded and I didn´t notice,
how myself too was getting breathless.
It was afternoon – no shadow on the heated path,
my feet seemed not to play along no more –
and so I felt myself as well – collapse…
And as my eyes unwillingly got shut
and brought myself to sleep,
my carriage fell from me and rolled aside…
My eyes…I didn´t…
…
…
My head…
…
…
…
And my eyelids…
…
…
felt so terribly…
…
…
heavy…
…
…
…***
I woke up jumping on all four –
someone´s sniffing up my butt! –
The Wolf!
He found us!
‘What?!
Hey!
Where is Will?’
I looked around still partially asleep.
The sun was setting – the Sky was brightly red,
the darkness – starting to absorb the valley way ahead.
‘Yeah… Where is Will?’ – I knew now where I was,
so I insisted.
‘And what were you…? You know I´m not that kind of guy!’
‘I´m sorry, Joe! I could not help it!
You were sleeping like a baby
and you have a butt.
It needed to be sniffed.’ – the Wolf just patiently replying.
‘And Will – he´s up! He went to get some wood for fire.’
The Wolf majestically sat down as he said that
and just waited for me to get more awake.
I shook my head and it all started coming back –
the sorrows and the shocks and all…
I took a second, looked around again
and with the heaviness inside my chest returning,
all I could say was, with a sigh:
‘My cousin – Jade´s gone missing…
I think we lost her…’
‘Yes, I know – Will told me.’ –
with the deepest, wisest, soothing voice
the Wolf replied.
‘But I can sense there´s more…’ –
he thoughtfully then looked aside.
‘How´d you mean that? More…?’ – I asked, encouraged.
‘I do not know yet, but there´s more – the flash, the mystery,
the village and this chaos… There must be more, I tell you…’
(And as I thought of it,
the Wolf was right!
These twins, the bag that no one knew about!?!
The Wolf was definitely right –
there´s more, we just don´t know it yet.)
‘Yes..’ – he got me feeling somewhat better.
‘You probably are right,
there must be something else…
Now what about the village…?’
And as I said that, before even finishing my sentence,
my cousin-in-law shows up running
out of trees and bushes,
throwing woods and sticks above his head –
shouting something really scared…
‘…chases me…’ – is all I can distinguish.
We ran towards him in a hurry.
And as I got to him, the Wolf was checking up
inside the bushy cluster
where the human´s trails were…
What the hell was chasing Will?
He went inside the bushes
and a second later
came out crawling backwards,
belligerently growling to the darkness.
Both Will and I turned startled
to see what was about to happen.
What came behind him
I had not expected!
***
***
About three times the size of Wolf,
with roars, from which my teeth got chills
and my back fur – goosebumps…
Perhaps the most breathtaking creature
I had never yet encountered –
a Bengal Tiger!
She could´ve raptured our Wolf in halves
but suddenly she looked aside and noticed me –
the most fierceful creature´s eyes
that ever in the world met mine.
‘Wait!’ – I shouted to the Wolf.
The growling stops, but she continues to look at me.
Then reverberating in my mind –
a deep, majestic female voice says:
‘You!!!’…
Her eyes are piercing my soul…
(How did she know me?)
She turns around and walks back to the darkness.
…
I deliberated for a second,
but inside of me I knew
what the Tigress wanted me to do.
‘I think she´d like it
if we followed her.’ – I said and went her way.
‘Wapiti, wait!’ – Will reached and tried to stop me.
I turned around and looked him seriously in the eye,
walked past the baffled Wolf
and noticed he was nodding
towards Will, inviting him
to disobey his fears.
…
And so he did.
I heard them following me to the darkness.
I sensed the Tigress´ trails before me.
Her sheen presence lit the paths she raced on
as she led us deep inside the forest.
…
We followed her in silence.
…
‘I think we´re here – I lost her presence.’
I turned around and told the others.
‘Ok… Now what?’ – discouraged Will replied.
The Wolf was sniffing something in the air.
‘I sense another trail!’ – he said. –
‘Some humans!’
Will looked at me anticipating.
‘Take us to them, Wolf!’ – I asked.
We followed him around,
but I already knew –
the butterflies inside my stomach
had reminded me along the way –
the secret bag that Jade had hidden
in the white spot fur, right across my chest.
And as we followed our Wolf,
I had another of Jade´s visions come back to me,
so I saw them right before I saw them –
there they were – the Twins.
…
Some ancient oak, at least few meters wide,
and they were standing right beside it –
two hairless naked creatures,
shimmering green silver
all around their palest skins.
A grown-up male and female,
standing by each other, holding hands.
The Wolf and Will could not believe their eyes.
At the safest distance they´d remained, I noticed,
as unknowingly I carefully approached the Twins.
I did my best just not to scare away those creatures!
I somehow got three feet away,
the female reached towards me,
stretched her hand and waited,
looking at me strangely.
I don´t know why, but I felt safe.
The creatures slowly tilted both their heads.
I think they were awaiting –
this surreal look of them…
I almost had forgotten…
Of the package.…
Their energy was just so soothing.
I approached them, calmly went a little further,
so that the girl could reach and touch me.
I looked back just to check
with Will and Wolf –
entranced they carefully attended
all this seeming wizardry
that happened in the Woods that night.
The female took the bag right from my chest –
I had no clue what I was hiding
underneath my fur,
right by my heart.
She took it out – it seemed she knew…
I noticed something as a steel reflection…
And…
Oh, God!
A razor blade!!!
…
…
…
…
!?!
…
…
…
…
And they cut their veins,
right there – in front of us,
wide open.
And as they are collapsing gently,
touch the ground as if they´re weightless,
a single word exhaled by both of them –
‘…love…’ – they simultaneously whisper…
And somewhere in between these foreign voices –
again… this feeling of resemblance –
I could swear I heard Jade´s echo somewhere…
And as they touch the ground I notice –
they´re feet and knees – entirely rooted –
so much weeds and grass and branches
were slithering their bodies,
they must be waiting there for ages.
And now they´re dead.
I looked down – again bedazzled and misunderstanding –
as I heard some distant cracking.
I looked up as within a moment –
a several huge leaps and there she was again –
the Tigress.
I stepped few feet away until I felt behind my back –
my company approaching to protect me.
…
Again…
We all were rendered speechless
and our feet and hoofs and paws were frozen.
…Those mystic Twins…
They were so unreal and innate pale
and now all this…?!?
What´d Jade put us up to?
I did not think there´s any less that I could comprehend,
but there I was, again,
my jaw´s wide hanging,
some naked dead bald grown-up twins
and there she was –
bewildering with beauty,
this furious enormous female Bengal Tiger,
now calmly stepping over those two suicidal bodies –
protects them, as if they are her own,
bows down to us and gently growls,
then barfs a little at our feet and hoofs,
but not just anything, I notice –
a tiny perfect greenly-shaded mirror ball –
some sort of unknown mineral,
appeared from deep inside of her –
a stone we are supposed to take –
(she bows and nods at me.)
The piece is so obscure
and it resembles something,
something so familiar –
an aura.
And I sensed that Jade must stay behind this too.
Somehow.
…
~~~
Part 0.3
~~~
***
[And it seemed for just a moment
that she had it all under control.
´cause what happened after that ensured me
that all that happens, happens for a reason
and all that is or was or ever will be
is (and is!)
the way it is(!)
supposed to be!]
They disappeared.
Just vanished.
All of them!
All three!
The twins, the Tigress,
the razor blade, the Oak as well?!
…
First their colors started slowly fading,
then they turned all cloudy
and…
My eyes got somehow shady,
somehow white…
…
like the haze the twins had turned to
entered me and…
…
…
…
…
…
***
I must have fallen asleep again,
I cannot recall anything –
it´s all blurry.
But I know I woke up
from another earthquake
and a flash…
I jumped awake.
A dreadful headache.
I felt sick.
And the others weren´t there.
It got me more than scared.
As I was standing
opening my eyes (the light was blinding),
had to blink a little to adapt,
but as I opened them completely,
I noticed it was day already,
and the thick white mist was back…
I slowly started walking
but I didn´t know where to –
irreversibly disoriented,
I was lost…
(Oh.. s**t!)
I think I started panicking,
my mind was blocked,
I tried to shout
by then my throat repelled,
A shock attack developed…
…
…
…
…
…
And I must have fainted…
´cause again I woke up,
stood up on all four,
dusted myself off a bit,
I looked around and –
there they were again –
my cousin’s husband Will, the Wolf
and something felt so weird…
I loped towards them and I noticed
they were as well disoriented,
they also didn´t know what hit them.
But as I got nearer
I received another vision –
the blue-green crystal
had to do with our mission.
(somewhat random…
but I felt it…)
…
***
***
We approached the dusty road again –
the three of us – the Wolf,
my cousin´s husband Will and I –
but none of us had said a word.
Something told me
that the other two did not experience the second flash,
(as I did),
I tried to grasp it, to explain it to myself somehow –
I couldn´t,
but it (for some reason),
didn´t bother me at all.
We just were going.
All we knew was,
that we have to find this castle
and perhaps it´d turn all clearer.
Silence.
…
…
…
‘Now that´s what I call Sunset!’ –
the Wolf in his deep voice said,
pointing to the valley with his snout.
None of us replied,
but he was right –
it was outstanding.
A magnificent horizon had unraveled –
a valley, veiled in creamy mist
and layered pinks and reds and purples
and the Sun was wishing us good night.
He´d seen our whole adventure
and supportive warmly promised to be with us
in the morning. So I thank him.
…
We continued in silence
and we got a few miles further
as Will said something for the first time
since the night began:
‘She was all to me, you know?!
I still cannot believe she´s gone,
I still can feel her…’
…
I pitied him a bit –
for still denying it
and yet my senses also told me –
that he might just be correct.
***
~~~
Part 0.4
~~~
***
I was thinking all night of what Will had said
and I was just about to answer him
as Wolf stopped walking and speedily implied:
‘Guys, look!!!’
…
In the distant morning haze we saw it –
a warmly lit castle with a partially visible vast garden.
Without noticing it all three of us speeded up
and almost galloping we arrived at the gates.
They were colossal.
And locked.
(Now what?!)
…
Will fell down almost suffocating
(choked his lungs out –
wasn´t used to sprinting,
as the Wolf and I).
But he made a sign –
he was ok.
Stood up and smacked the golden gate forcefully
with his whole palm.
Nothing.
…
He hit the door again…
Then again..
And again…
‘HELLO?!?’… –
he shouted with his whole lungs.
Again nothing.
…
Then he banged again,
but this time began to rapidly
hit and kick the door
and to shout desperately…
…
(‘Do something!’)-
I looked at the Wolf.
He nodded. –
‘Hey, WILL!!!’
…
Will didn´t hear a thing –
he was crying with tears
and shouting random stuff about
how she´s still alive and it isn´t fair
and pleading how they had to open the door
and cursing the Shaman and the Warrior.
(who were supposed to be inside…)
but no one answered…
‘WILL!!! STOP IT!!!’ –
had to snarl the Wolf and show his teeth a little.
Will was really desperate.
The Wolf stuck his head right before William´s head
and repeated louder:
‘WILL!!! STOP IT!!!’
…
This time it shook him –
he took a few steps backwards
and collapsed to the ground,
on his buttocks and back.
He had turned all grey and yellow –
his paleness got me worried.
But at least he was silenced.
***
(A madness…what a madness…) – I thought to myself.
***
Still silently crying, Will crawled to the side of the road,
curled up
and still murmuring something about Jade,
gradually fell asleep.
***
***
I must admit –
it was a relief.
He got me a little scared –
I thought he might hurt himself somehow.
‘I think that´s what they call break-down.’-
I turned to the Wolf.
He smirked.
And as he did that, something apparently
caught his attention,
´cause his ears were now pointing up
and he suddenly looked alerted.
‘What, did you hear something?’
…
He didn´t answer, instead quickly turned around
and disappeared into the bushes
around the eastern castle wall,
sniffing in the air above him.
Until I even got the chance
to understand what happened,
Wolf came back out,
carrying something
(twice the size of his head)
in his snout.
He bowed and gently put it on the ground,
near by the gate of gold and stitched with light.
‘What is it?’ – I couldn´t see it,
it was getting dark,
so I got nearer.
~~~
Part 0.5
~~~
***
The nightfall was already covering the Woods.
I approached the Gate to get a better view
and noticed – what the Wolf had brought
was not a ‘something’, but a ‘someone’.
The Turtle was the Woods clairvoyant.
We´d all heard of her, but rarely had someone
the chance to really meet her.
It was said she chooses by herself
who she´d see and what she´d tell.
My heart was pounding in my chest –
for some reason this encounter had me so excited.
(It was somewhat of an honor,
were we now the chosen ones?
I felt a little flattered.)
…
Reeeeeaaally slowly something started moving.
Reeeeeaaally slowly from the shell were stretching now
a head and her four limbs,
supporting her to
reeeeeaaally slowly stand up and to
reeeeeaaally slowly look around.
My heart – still beating rapidly –
and this slowliness was getting
my head real impatient.
(‘Oh… that´s gonna be one loooong long night…’) – I thought.
…
But I was surprised, for as she started speaking –
in this so amazingly calm matter,
yet with a completely normal rhythm
(which contrasted somehow to the way she moved.)
And her voice – extremely beautiful,
coming out from deep inside her dark-green shell,
the acoustics made it sound
as if some tiny bells accompanied her speech.
She looked at Wolf, then slowly turned to me
and calmly smiled a little as she reeeeeaaally slowly blinked
(or closed her eyes and fell asleep –
I wasn´t really sure that very moment.)
But it turned out she was blinking.
Then she said:
‘Thank you, Wolf. It would´ve taken ages
´till I reach you by myself.
I almost thought I might´ve missed you.
Got lucky that the Gates are locked.
How are you? Is your friend there sleeping or is he dead?’ –
she moved her head few millimeters, pointing us to Will –
he really seemed to be so lifeless.
‘No, he´s fine.’ – I said. –
‘That´s Will, my beautiful Jade´s sleeping husband.’
‘Oh, I can see now, it´s a human.’ – she replied.
‘But where´s the other one? The fourth?
This other human – “Jade”, you mentioned…?’
‘Oh… However sad this might just make us,
I admit – we think she´s dead.
She´s gone from here, at least.’ – I bowed my head.
‘I´m sorry, dear to hear that.’ –
the Turtle slowly started turning,
her intention was to walk away.
‘I must have been misled. Goodbye.’
‘Goodb.. What!?…Wait!’ – the Wolf stuttered. –
‘Aren´t you supposed to show us something?
Thought you´re the clairvoyant
and we´re the ones you searched and met…?’
‘Yes, dear. So I thought as well.
But as the prophecy had said –
I had to find the four of you.
But you´re just two instead.
And a half… if we would count this human there –
half-dead.
I´m sorry. You are not the ones I was supposed to meet.’
And as she nearly finished saying that
the Eagle landed at my antlers – emerging from the twilight.
‘Hey, guys.’ – he said.
I´m glad you made it here.
There´s something you should see
inside the castle – some sort of light.
I´ve been observing from above
and I believe that something weird is going on inside –
there are some flares and fires in uncommon colors
coming out the basement window.
Glass shattering and humans shouting –
it seems to me there is a quarrel.’
(Hm… perhaps that´s what we came here for –
to stop this?…)
‘We cannot enter, we have tried. The Gates are locked.’
‘I´ll go and check what I can do inside.’ –
the Eagle said and was already flying.
…
A moment of brief silence followed,
then the Turtle (she had not reached far)
sat down, looked at me and for some reason
her optimistic eyes were reassuring
and my heart was filled with faith.
‘That´d do the job’ – she winked.
‘It seems you ARE the four that I was searching.
I will show you now, if you allow me.’
‘Sure, why not?!’ – the Wolf was so excited
(by the unknown)
that his tail was swirling all around
and he was jumping back and forth
above the Turtle.
‘Alright, alright!’ – she smiled.
Then continued:
‘Please assume positions at a safe distance
and I’ll explain to you how these things work.’
Wolf looked at me and noticed
I was as confused as he –
none of us was sure what was about to happen.
***
Yet we took a few steps back
and then the Turtle added:
‘Good! Now please relax and focus!’
Deliberately she retreated back into her shell.
The night was so dark that it seemed the Turtle disappeared completely.
Silence.
Nothing happened for a while,
so I checked with Wolf.
He was really focusing his full attention on the Turtle
and didn´t even look at me
so I continued watching her, anticipating.
Suddenly the tiles that covered up her shell
cracked up a little
and opened outwards just a tiny bit –
to let a cloud of this elusive blue-ish light escape
to form a magnet aura all around the Woods´ clairvoyant.
The light´s intensity continued its progression
and at certain point it lit the territory
as a torch, but multiplied by thousands.
It must have woken Will up,
for he slowly joined us from behind
and sat right next me –
entirely apathetic,
didn´t really seem to care about
what´s happening before us.
Lifeless, speechless
and his eyes – still full of tears and sorrow,
concentrated on the bright blue light.
…
I don´t know for how long we stared at it
and it was so magnetic
that I hadn´t even noticed there´s a sound.
A constant chanting at some frequency,
and I could swear, the source of it was hidden
inside Turtle´s shell.
(Or maybe she was singing, this I couldn´t tell.)
And then she started speaking calmly
with this unreal vibrance in her chant.
The acoustics in her shell were echoing her every sound
in such a matter, that it filled the whole surroundings
and my head.
The first thing that she said
was for me completely unexpected:
‘When I kill myself, I kill the others,
when I kill another, I just really kill myself!’
And then she stopped.
(Was that it??? – I thought to myself…
The big epiphany??? The message???
…
To be honest… at first I didn´t really get it
and I was quite a bit confused.)
But she continued in just a moment:
‘Please relax, Wapiti.
I can feel you´re worried.
But there´s more!’
Through the powerful magnetic light
her head now started showing
and she smiled and closed her eyes again.
‘It´s all alright, I’ll give you every message that I have for you …
Just please be patient,
and be ready to receive it.’
…
…
…
…
…
…
As the Turtle now continued,
new colors started utterly appearing
within the blue-ish cloud of light
with almost every word that she pronounced:
‘The energy is travelling through light and water
and the only bridge´s a spiral vessel
swimming up and down your spine
and in all directions inwards and outside.
Fill the vessel with the music of your heart
and then hear it with your mind –
the pulses…
And just dance.’-
Then the turtle started moving her head
as if she was dancing
(to some extreeeemely slow music in her head). –
‘Just dance inside your words
and feel inside your fingertips.’ – she added.
Then continued calmly, still head-dancing:
‘And we can make it,
for it´s all in us!
The time and electricity and all.
It´s in our nature.
And so we are, we´re born from Her.
And just when we´re connected,
we can make it!
*
Four´s the leading number.
(for this book at least…)
Four´s a hero!
But do not discriminate the Zero,
it is as essential as the One.
*
And essential is as well,
to know that:
(you might need it!)
Time travelling, on quantum level,
renders time irrelevant!
When you transcend the time and space,
maybe you´ll notice,
all you need to do is free your mind
and let your spirit guide it,
but do not expect a simultaneity,
´cause time is not existing! It´s just You!!
*
So as you travel beyond time and space –
regardless what or who you meet there –
you affect the Whole in all dimensions.
And you build, create your worlds of visions,
which now DO exist and CAN be visited by others,
but in their own time and different n0-space.
And as you meet the Mayan Shaman,
he will be expecting.
You should ask him of the cycle
and he´ll tell you how to close it back.
And there will be something, that you´ll need to give him.
He´d appreciate it gladly and he´ll let you go.
So you´ll be able to come back and save me.’
As she said that all the colors merged and turned to
blinding green of sorts, which started then pulsating
into even brighter light.
‘And dear human, Mr. Will,
this one´s just for you, love!
You can even find it on the Internet,
when you´re back in your own time.’
(What she´d said so far
was already not making much sense,
but ‘the Internet’???
I sensed it was about to get stranger,
as if this was possible…)
‘Tell the others of your species,
when the thing they´ll call a TV in the future
gets invented, they should do
the following:
Throw away your TV
or just let´s invert it, inside out,
(as my old friend George had once suggested) –
in case you have some questions
about fairness and surveillance
and who´s who and what and why?
For in front of it they´re hiding
just as well as they can do behind it.
Once they´re in it though,
and not just one, but all of them,
there will be no more need for mere pretending,
for they´ll know, no one is really following.’
And she turned it off – the light and sound and everything,
it was gone within a flash.
We´re back in darkness, sitting there,
completely silent.
And again – bedazzled.
…
‘Turtle, you OK?’ – I scarcely asked.
No answer.
‘I think she might be tired.’ – the Wolf soothed me.
‘Yes.. I guess you might be right.’ – I replied. –
‘But what about the message, did someone get that?
I understood her words but…did you get the sense?
What should we do with all this information now?
And what is Mayan? And what´s that vessel?
Can someone please explain it to me?
I feel stupid.’
‘I´m sure it will all make sense when the time is right.
I memorized it all, don´t worry.’ – the Wolf was exceptionally smart.
Will was also startled:
‘This sentence…’
We looked at him awaiting to continue…
but it seemed he just dived in his thoughts…
‘Which sentence, Will?’ – I asked,
that got him back.
‘She said… She said:
“…when the thing they´ll call a TV in the future
gets invented…”
didn´t she?’
I nodded.
And as I did my brain started shuddering
´cause I was getting the direction
that his question had suggested.
‘In the future?’- William repeated
and looked at me misapprehending –
I shrug my shoulders, but I got his point.
For all I knew the TV was invented
a few decades ago –
none of us was even born yet.
This whole situation was becoming more and more
a riddle.
Such a chaos!
All three of us, again –
just standing there
with our hearts racing,
our jaws dropped
and eyebrows lifted,
looked into each other´s eyes and
exclaimed in question all at once:
‘ARE WE IN THE PAST?!?’
(Oh…!!! Holy S*it!!! Again!!!???)
***
~~~
Part 0.6
~~~
The darkness and the cluelessness
that we´ve been sent to,
and the fear, as far as I could tell,
interrupted by the Wolf,
turned very quickly to a rather different sensation.
We stood a while in shock like this,
until the Wolf – apparently a little bit ashamed
of not at first distinguished it,
he cleared his throat and insecurely stated:
‘Ahm…
Ok…
….
The Past, you say?…
That makes a little sense to me,
it would explain a couple things I witnessed
in the village.
I mean…
With all that happened…
I just… didn´t think it would be as important,
since everything seemed fine back there. …’
‘You met your friend – the dog?’ –
I noticed this whole thing had made the Wolf a little nervous,
and I thought I might just help him take it easy,
since no matter what he said –
it probably couldn´t top the shock of what had just happened –
finding out one had just traveled to the past was quite a thing.
…
‘Yes… Yes, we met.
She welcomed me at dawn,
right before she left to work –
that hadn´t changed –
her owner still – the village shepherd.
I´ve never met him though –
she´d warned me he would kill me.
Didn´t have much time to talk
as she was leaving soon
and I was terribly exhausted –
the night I’d spent in running only.
She led me to the stall, to take a nap
before returning (and while the others weren´t there).
…
I woke up to the voices of some humans –
I got scared and jumped to see that no one´s there –
except an injured sheep, a doctor and his nurse.
I overheard them speak of something
and as they mentioned it, I found it rather strange –
my stomach started shivering. They said
that all the pendulums in town got broken –
the doctor´s, mayor´s, even Clement´s one –
I didn´t recognize their speech, not all at least.
But I believe they mentioned that they´ve lost
their track of time, deliveries were late.
But then they laughed and made some jokes about it –
how the future transport engines will not use the steam
as power source and how ridiculous it´d seem.
That´s all I heard – I used the moment while they´re laughing,
sneaked behind their backs and ran towards you guys –
across the village, midday, crystal light.
Though as I crossed the street I almost got ran over
by a horse and his white carriage.
No cars were there, as I was used to,
so I thought – the humans must have finally upgraded.
The Horse excused himself and slowed down even –
that impressed me, what a Gentleman.
And then I found your trails and as I reached you –
Will was wandering half-conscious, searching wood.
And then… You know… All this just happened…’
‘I see, Wolf…
You´re right, that doesn´t quite help the story,
and the city changes constantly so anyway,
you couldn´t possibly just know it…-
that we´ve traveled back through time, I mean.’
I was starting getting used to the idea
that we had somehow traveled to the past.
I stood up and just made few steps –
I had to move… to check with Will again –
he had his thumb and index finger at his chin
and was again far sunken in his head.
‘Any idea what we should do next, Will?’
‘… Nope…’ – he quickly answered
without changing his position.
(‘Me neither’ – I thought to myself.)
But what were we supposed to do?
The Gates were closed,
the end line of the night
was certainly approaching,
the darkest black had turned now purple
and the Orb was no more dancing –
all that´s left was Venus –
shining in the morning sky and
reminding me of hope…
…
Something somehow told me though –
the answer was inside the castle´s walls.
For a second I considered even running up
towards the Gates, but my antlers gave me sign
that´s not a good idea.
I felt useless, helpless and uncommon –
having traveled to the past –
it seemed indeed we were in trouble.
…
Suddenly I turned around…
I hadn´t noticed I had deeply sunken
in my observations, as the Eagle had announced
a lower place he had discovered on the North side
of the Castle Wall Walk.
I turned around and noticed –
the Eagle had the Turtle lifted and he carried her towards the spot,
while Will and Wolf
were hurrying behind, attempting to surround the Castle,
remotely following the Wall
and running so fast that it scared me for a bit-
for I thought I couldn`t reach them.
So I hesitated for a moment,
it somehow felt quite right just to be waiting.
I stood there for another minute,
my old friend Venus waited with me
and assured me it was all the way it was supposed to happen.
***
And as I waited, heard the Eagle giving me the signal
that they`re there, they`d made it in the Castle.
So I was just about to turn around and give them signal
that I hear them,
so I turn and what`d I see???
The Gates – wide open!!!
And the Warrior is sneaking out –
escaping, right before my nose –
but there!
I saw her!
And she hears me
and then slowly turns around
and sees me too.
And then just looks at me –
I knew her,
yet I hadn`t met her –
she was not the Warrior from our party,
but quite similar – resemblance level:
quite a bit, she must have been her twin or something,
couldn`t tell much difference back then.
Her eyes were somehow piercing.
I looked at her as she was leaving,
headed somewhere in a rush,
and thanked her for the Gate she opened
right before me.
Gate of Light!
~~~
Part 0.7
~~~
Finally!
The Castle!
We arrived!
***
I entered and my breath was by a force of beauty taken,
the Castle was surrounded by its layered Gardens,
full of Water, Light and Colors,
mirrored by all surfaces and hanging sculptures.
Will and Wolf appeared now also to me –
somewhere at the Center – so unreal –
standing there embedded in magnificence –
that park that made the mostly natural seem even to me
so unrealistic.
…
We all met right by the Entrance of the building,
all in rush –
our Jade`s at stake!!!
We open up, while bumping in each other in a hurry –
and there he is – the Shaman!
Standing right there at the corridor,
spread all around his books with spells and such,
his colored magic powders and his herbs
and staring desperately, with his hands up at his head,
inside a hole –
inside a cube –
in front of him –
across the floor.
He sadly looks to us in desperate exclamation:
‘Oh..no…
I think that something might`ve happened…
A misconception –
a misunderstanding…
I`ll explain….’
But Will – impatient, in no mood for bargaining
just runs across and grabs him by his throat
and shouts:
“You bring her to me!!!
Right away!
You lost her!”
“I`ll explain…” – the Shaman scarcely sighs…
“Right now!
Or else…”
“Or else what…?”
(Yeah… or else what?…If Will would harm him somehow,
all his chances to get Jade back,
immediately disappear.) –
I was still afraid approaching…
“Or else…
I don`t know…
I give up…
I think I`d trade my soul to get her back…
I love her…” – Will`s grip softly then let go
the forest wizard`s neck and fell down to his knees…
“Please, take her back…
Please!”
“Wait, I`ll see what I can do… ” – the Shaman seemed a little more determined now.
“And as I said… Let me explain…”
The Shaman was peacefully now gathering around,
preparing some sort of a mixture –
I considered, he would throw it in the Box.
“It`s all a little bit confusing,
`cause you see…”
…
“I think we noticed…” –
the Wolf growled in his face,
surrounding him.
“Well…
You see, I`m from the future…
No… I mean the past… –
Her future…
Yes.
I`m from the present.
Yes…”
He stopped all movement,
baffled for a while –
all thoughtful.
(He seemed to me now more of a
confused professor
than as wise as Shaman.)
He continued:
“I’m from the present
and I think you too…
But something happened
a few decades ago –
a misunderstanding.
I mean error.
My mistake.
I thought that I was helping…
But instead…”
“Wait… A few decades ago?!…
Jade`s gone since yesterday,
that`s all we`re asking you to fix…” –
Will puzzled looked at me.
“For you…” – the Shaman added.
“For me it was the decades,
for you it was a day,
for all I know though,
we have scrambled more than our world,
per se,
we might`ve really f*cked all up this time…
I mean the Time, the Space…
Time-Space Pretending…
But let me try and stop this once again…”
And then he threw all he was mixing in the middle –
in the Hole, the Cube of Light!
***
The Flash, the Smoke, again…
It was repeating…
….
All…
…
…
…
I fell asleep…
(I`ll tell you…
how it all began…) –
the Shaman`s voice…
(so distant…)
…
…
…
…
…
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***
I woke up to a room –
the Castle`s corridor again,
all full of mist
(the others were still sleeping.)
My eyes were heavy,
yet I saw –
and suddenly was forced to open them a lot –
MYSELF escaping from the box…
But how???
So I just jumped, made two-three steps towards him –
I mean me –
and as he turned it was so terrifying!!!
He was me with much much darker fur
and his eyes – on fire!
A red “Inferno”!
DARK WAPITI!
As he looks at me
(got chills…),
he disappears.
(still chills…)
…
A female voice:
“Wapiti!”
…
***
I turned around –
and chills again!
JADE!!!
She´s standing in the middle of the hole…
“But how?!?!…”
“I will explain…” – Jade calmly answered,
still standing at the center,
the thick white mist was sliding up her feet and waist.
“Jade, thank God you`re here! Something happened,
we`re in the past!” – as I said that and walked towards her,
Will was awaking and as he saw her, he just shouted:
“JADE!!!” – and ran over to hug her.
But she was looking at me and her peaceful smiling face
slowly turned serious.
“The past?” – her eyes were getting sad.
Will hugged her and tried to kiss her as she
stopped him with her hand.
“I`m sorry, Love! Not yet…
But I will return!” – she bowed down
and then turned towards the door.
I turned as well to check what she was facing,
and I saw her!!! The Warrior!
This time it definitely was herself!
This time I saw her there! I swear!
Standing at the entry
and behind her – thunder!
She had brought the storm!
And as she stays she shoots
and kills our Jade again!
“No! Wait!” – Will shouts and jumps.
And hands to me his little bag,
yet as I catch it –
(no idea what to do with it!)
he touches Jade
and all the three of us just disappear.
Again.
White smoke.
And nothingness.
But I’m awake this time.
Alone.
***
End of Part 0
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