Chapter Four
"Nice landing, Saboo!" Naboo shouted sarcastically through the hole in the roof. "Next time, don't try and do a triple backflip!"
"About time, Naboo! I've been blind for hours!" Vince shouted angrily at the wall.
"I'm over here Vince. Anyway, that's not important." Naboo replied, digging in his bag. "Vince, can you lie down?"
"Why?"
"It's part of the ritual."
"Oh, okay." Vince said, lying on his back.
"Right. Howard, put the picture of Vince's eyes over his real eyes." Naboo instructed, sprinkling silver powder in a circle around Vince.
As Howard placed the pictures over Vince's eyes, he noticed that his real eyes were a lot dimmer than normal. As Howard left the silver circle, Naboo recited in a loud, clear voice.
"Le demon yeux, reveal the passage to the Field Of Eyes so that we can retrieve the eyes of Vince Noir. As an offering, we have an image of these eyes for you to treasure."
Suddenly, the building started to tremble. The picture of Vince's eyes glowed silver as they rose through the broken skylight and out of sight. Then, a small dot appeared on the dark carpet. It grew into a hole.
Vince didn't react (He appeared to have fainted.) but Howard and Naboo went to examine it. It was like a rainbow whirlwind, but it had voices emanating from it, all saying the word 'eyes', one of which Naboo recognised as his own.
"Right," Naboo said, after they'd looked at the whirlwind for a while. "This portal leads to the field of eyes, a place of legends. You need to go in there and find Vince's eyes. I'm not sure what kind of things are there, but there's one thing you have to be sure of. Don't get the wrong eyes. That's really important. If you get the wrong eyes, Vince will be stuck with someone else's eyes. He'll see the world differently, as in he'd think things he used to think were pretty were hideous."
"OK. I understand. How do I get back when I've got them?" Howard asked, worried.
"I think you get transported. Good luck Howard." Naboo said, before shoving Howard into the void.