Ink wonder~What if Mo had found the sheet of paper (Ink spell, chapter 11, Pg 128)
It was a gut feeling that brought Mo to Meggie's bedroom of the night of her disappearance. Elinor Darius and Resa were all fast asleep which was where he was supposed to be, but something inside of him was telling him to find it. Of course he understood at once what it was but he still believed that Meggie had the only sheet, didn't she?
Mo hesitantly sat down on his daughters bed, everything looked the same yet there would always be one thing missing – Meggie herself.
Mo jumped off the bed as quickly as a kid at a theme park, knelt down in front of the soft toys and started throwing them aimlessly around the room. He remembered when Meggie was little and they would play hide and seek. Beneath the soft toys would be her favourite hiding spot.
When mo lifted up the last toy, a small penguin that was missing one of it's eye, and saw that there was no sheet of paper only a ink black pen, a writers pen.
Presumably Meggie had used it to write the letter that made mo's heart break, his eyes blur, from just the two words "Dear Mo".
He went over to the desk where Meggie kept other pens just like the one he held in his hand, paper, stacks and stacks of paper and her school books that she would no longer need.
Mo was just about to place the pen with the other ones when a loud voice made him jump.
"Heavens above, Mortimer. What are you doing up so early. Making such a loud racket as well." Elinor kept saying stuff but Mo didn't want to listen to her.
He put the pen in the metal pen holder and a he went red with anger. At what he did not know.
Without thinking he swung his arm back and knocked Meggie's school books, which were the closest things to him, into the air.
Elinor went quiet and they both watched the pile of books as the fell down to make a large thump on the white carpet.
Mo saw Resa out of the tip of his eye, standing behind Elinor with her hands over her mouth, he saw her push Elinor aside and run pass both of them towards the pile of books.
Elinor hurried behind her and helped her pick them up.
"Why bother?" mo's voice was no higher than a whisper. "She's never going to come back"
Elinor stood up grumpily, silently cursing her. She still held a book in her hand, Meggie's geography book. "She will come back Mortimer, how can you even think that? It seems like she took all your hope with her! – Elinor flapped her hand which she held the book up in the air with disgrace at him. No one would've seen it if they weren't looking at the book but out slipped, as silent as a feather, a piece of paper neatly folded in half.
Mo knelt down and picked the paper up. Elinor fell silent and Resa went to his side.
Another note? Her hands asked
No, Mo knew at once that it was not a note, he didn't even have to open it to know that it was Dustfinger's returning home letter, the letter that swallowed his daughter and the boy, orpheus' words.