I'm in the darkness, all alone, but I can still faintly hear and feel the world around me. I hear my mother sobbing, while my Uncle Jean holds me, begging me to stay. But I can't stay, I hear my name being called somewhere, and I have to go to it.
There's a light, right above me, I start climbing up towards it curiously. I hope my mother and Uncle Jean don't mind, I will be right back. At least I think I'll be right back, I wouldn't understand why if I couldn't.
When I reach the light I'm blinded for a moment, it doesn't hurt, but I can't see anything. Then suddenly, I can see, I'm standing on a path in the sky. It's like a white strip of ribbon, stretching across the sky. There's a man I don't know sitting there, as though he's waiting for me. I look at him curiously.
"Hello? Excuse me?" I ask him "I can't find my mother". Now that I was standing on this strange pathway I knew for sure I just wanted to go straight back to my Mother and Uncle Jean. The man smiles "Hello Peri, it's good to see you!" he greets me warmly, as though he's known me all my life. I've never seen this man before!
I ask more questions "Who are you? Where is my mother?" I pause "Where am I?". He chuckles "So many questions!" he exclaims "Peri, my name is Victor, I am a... friend..., of your Uncle Jean" he tells me.
This man is crazy, I don't care who he is! I want to go back to my family now "Please! I want my mother!" I tell him, he hushes me "Don't worry, everything will be alright" he says soothingly. That comforts me and calms me slightly.
Now he asks me "Do you know where you are?". I thought I already made it clear I didn't know, but maybe I should guess "Is this a dream? I remember going to sleep" I admit. Yes, it had been a rather peaceful sleep, but this morning I hadn't been able to wake up.
I began to get worried again, this had to be a dream! "Now I'm all grown up! It must be a dream" I say aloud, trying to reason with myself. I was going back, I had to go back! Mother and Uncle Jean sounded so worried about me when I was coming up here!
"It's not a dream. And yes, you are grown up now" Victor tells me. Not a dream? "You're in the prime of your life, and you'll never be hungry or tired again" he explains. Well that was a relief, I remember my tummy hurting me so much when I went to sleep last night.
Then it hit me, "Am I dead? Is this heaven?" I asked after a moment. I couldn't be dead, no I couldn't be, I needed to go back right now! Uncle Jean and Mother must be so upset and worried! "Take your time Peri, you'll need to adjust" he simply replies "You'll soon remember. You're already starting to think like an adult again".
No! I wasn't dead! I was just sleeping! And what was he saying? What do I need to remember? I began to grow fearful, I was never an adult! I was just a child, how could I think like an adult again? I'd never been an adult in the first place had I? "Again...?" I asked, voicing my confusion.
"Soon you'll start to remember your life before you were born. And your mission" he explains. These are all lost words on me, I'm so confused. "My mission?" I asked "What are you talking about?". He doesn't seem slightly bothered by my many questions, and continues to answer them patiently.
He looks at me very seriously "You're a very important person Peri, we need you to save the world. SAVE THE WORLD? What? What is he saying? This crazy Victor man, I need to return back to earth now! "But first you need to save your uncle, Jean Valjean. And before that..." he pauses "Well, let's take one thing at a time".
I try to reason with him "Save the world?" I ask "I just want to see mother, she must be upset!" I say. "You can go down and see her any time you want" he states simply. Does he mean to tell me I could have gone and seen her all this time? I am tempted to leave right this instant, but that would be very rude of me, and mother taught me my manners. I stay and listen.
"But she won't be able to see you" he adds. Oh, well that certainly changes things, I'm in no rush to see her now if I can't assure her I'm alright and happy. I feel tears building up, poor mother! Poor Uncle Jean! "That isn't your world anymore, Peri" he tells me gently "You're a spirit now, you can't interact physically with your old world now".
Holding back tears, I ask him "Then what can I do? I want to help them!" I say, my voice choking. I swallow my tears back "What can I do then?" I ask clearer. He smiles softly "There are two things you can do" he explains "You can see how people are feeling by touching them, they won't feel it. And, you can give them ideas by whispering them in their ears. They won't know it's you, but they'll hear it in their heads".
This is a lot to take in, and he seems to read my mind for then he tells me "If you ever get stuck, no matter where you are, you can come to me for help". It feels like a stupid question, but I still feel the need to ask it "How do I come to you for help?".
He doesn't seem to mind the question, and answers it as patiently as he's answered all my other questions "You only have to desire it, and you'll be here" "How does that work?" I ask, really, this is so confusing and complex sounding.
"I cannot explain it to you" he simply replies "But don't you worry, I will always be here on this path waiting to help you" he pauses "But you won't always need my help. You'll be able to solve most things on your own by listening to people's thoughts".
I sigh, starting to finally understand more "And what if I get lost?" I ask him, Paris is, after all, a big place, and I'm sure the whole world is an even bigger place! "You'll always have a map inside your head, but here..." he pulls out a map and gives it to me "When you need to go somewhere, just touch where it is on this map, and you'll go there" he explains. I roll the map up and put it in my small purse.
"So I just touch things?" I ask. He nods "Just experiment, go and try it out on things" he says. I turn and he stops me "Oh, I forgot to say, Welcome to Heaven, Peri. We have a lot of work to do! You need to save Jean Valjean, and watch over him for the rest of his life". The rest of his life! But Uncle Jean is so young! I'll be watching him for years and years and years!
That will be such a long time. "For the rest of his life?" I ask, just to make sure, because for the rest of his life is almost a stretch. He nods "It will take a lifetime to turn him from a sinner into a saint. You can't rush these things". Uncle Jean isn't a sinner! He's a good man! He loved me and all my siblings, and mother too! What did he do that was so wrong?
He continues to explain "You and he are the two people we're relying on to save heaven, but first you have to be trained. Earth is the training ground". First the world and now heaven? I suppose me and Uncle Jean make a good team, we always used to beat my older brothers at checkers together.
There's a long silence before he laughs "You look surprised" he comments. I tip my head to the side "What's this about saving heaven?" I ask, almost demandingly. "It's complicated" he says "You'll learn more about it after you've saved Jean Valjean". "How does a person save heaven? From what?" I ask. Heaven was supposed to be paradise wasn't it? How could it be in trouble?
"If I told you anymore you'd only have nightmares" he replies. I'm already going to have nightmares, I'm dead! "That's supposed to reassure me?" I ask sarcastically, because he really isn't helping me. He laughs "Don't worry, it will all make sense eventually" he replies. He seems pretty good natured for a man who's in a place that's in trouble.
He looks down "But right now we need to focus on saving Jean Valjean". So now this is it, I'm going to have to save my Uncle Jean. I look down at earth, it looks so small from where I'm standing. Well, the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. I begin heading down to earth to begin my mission.
Hello everyone. So this is half story, half video game walkthrough. What game am I talking about? I'm talking about the free downloadable game called 'Enter the Story'. It's a point and click adventure where you can go through all your favorite stories. The free book you get with the game happens to be Les Miserables, but I believe you can buy more like 'Tale of two cities' and stuff.
What I do in this walkthrough, you don't nessisarily have to do in the game (For example, going to Victor for help). Also, I've used Artistic Liscense on this, so some of the things that happen with Peri here might not be entirely accurate to the story.
Please Review and tell me what you think! If you've ever played the game, would you mind sharing how challanging you thought it was? My first run on it took me several days, so I'm wondering if people who have read 'the brick' have gotten through it faster, or if they struggled just as much as I did. Thanks for Reading, hope you continue to read and enjoy this!