I finished packing the few necessities we would need for the long road ahead of us. I walked into Toby's room to see him fully dressed and ready to go. He was just as excited as I was to return to our true home, the only difference was he didn't feel the nerves that are almost overpowering me.
To think that after all this time I was finally going to see Hoggle, Ludo, Sir Didymus and his stead, and….Him. The thought of seeing him again gave me mixed emotions, I was overjoyed and scared, at the thought of meeting him after so long. After saying the words that broke both our hearts. How could I face him, after all the pain and suffering that had come about from my naivety? On the other hand, how could I not find him, when I loved him with all of my being? I don't think I'll last much longer without him.
I grabbed the spell book, our bags, and Toby's hand and headed out the door. It was barely afternoon, and the sun was at its peak in the sky. A ten minute walk was all it took for us to reach our destination. An old park that had become overgrown with weeds. Carefully opening the aged book I found the page that would take us to the underground.
Positioning Toby so that he wouldn't see what needed to be done, I took out the large, jeweled dagger and slowly dragged it against my palm. The searing pain that flared on my palm ran up my arm and into my chest. Gasping I fell to the ground, reaching for anything that could stop the pain. Then as soon as it came, it left as if it had never been.
Standing I sang the enchantment recoded in the book, an enchantment that would attach our bodies with the underground. According to the spell book, this would make a rubber band reaction causing us to be pulled directly into the underground.
I finished the chant and grabbed Toby, then held on for dear life, because it was clearly working. The monument I stopped chanting a pull like any I'd felt before, dragged me and Toby into a gapping vortex. We span through the vortex with a speed unimaginable, until we were finally spat out in an unfamiliar surrounding.
It had worked, I couldn't believe this. After four years of trying I finally found the answer. Now here we were sitting in a huge bed chamber of some unknown creature in the Underground. Well this could be problematic, I didn't exactly want to stick around to see just who, slept in this room. I grabbed Toby's hand and ran for the door, but I was to late, because just then a beautiful Fae woman, with smoldering eyes stepped into the room.
Well I guess I just found out who lives here.
