Hello, hello, it is me again, and one of my reviewers told me that the
whole story was stuck together, and I apologize for that. I didn't mean to
make it go together, but sometimes when I upload the new chapter it doesn't
come out correctly. For one such thing, when I try and make faces on it,
they never come out. I shall try some right now, and I have a feeling that
they won't even come out: T.T -- I wonder if that worked? If it
isn't there, then we all know the answer to that. And I am lonely. Because
I have no friends online, now doesn't that just suck?
Hail: Why would somebody want to talk to you?
I shall ignore you. Well, it's just that, I don't like to go in chat rooms!
Sleet: Why not, they like to party in there!
Well, I like to party, but when I ask if anyone likes video games no one says any thing to me, I wish that they had chat rooms for ff.net. It isn't fair! I just want some friends that I can e-mail or instant message!
Sleet: I guess that it could get lonely, couldn't it?
Yes, it could, and it is. I'm all alone, there's nobody beside me!
Gust: I almost feel bad for you!
Oh, shut up.
Gust: Seriously, I mean it!
Poo poo.
Hail: Where did that come from?
I think that my sister's cat just went to the bathroom on the floor.
Sleet: But your sister doesn't have a cat.
Wait, you're right.... Oh no.
Gust: What?
Her year and a half toddler has dyaria.
Sleet: Eewwwww!
Please no.....
Gust: SO, I think that I can conclude that that is not good.
What do you think?
Hail: I am NOT cleaning that up!
Now this just sucks. I'm going to clean it up as you reviewers read it and then review, now Sleet, could you just lend a hand once?
Sleet: I don't have a hand.
Never mind. I own nothing of GoldenSun, but everything that happens in this story is mine. I need a rag and some cleaning stuff.
Chapter Three: Pieces of a Broken Heart
Isaac and co. made their way across the ice, they had just left Biblin (Is that what's called?) and were now headed off to Imil. They had traveled far enough to where the snow hadn't melted yet and was still as hard as a rock. At least it made the journey easier for them, or did it?
"WATCH OUT!"
Garet slipped and slid across the ice after tripping and falling down a hill. He was in the back, so h hit everyone on his way down.
"Garet you clumsy moron!" Felix yelled at him when had gotten back up and was standing over him like a tower. "How can someone slip SO much?"
Piers stood up, trying to hide his laughter, it didn't work and Felix shoot a look at him.
"What's so funny?" Felix demanded, most of the time others would shrivel at his glare, but for some reason it never seemed to affect Piers.
"Nothing!" Piers replied back innocently after he got his laughter under control. Isaac was already up and marching, not waiting for anyone else. The rest of them had to run in order to catch with him, Garet slipped again, but everyone was out of his slipping range. Only Jenna went over to help him, and Felix gave her a disapproving look. Isaac was still set strait ahead, trying to go as fast as he could to Imil, why had he waited until after winter to go?
"Slow down Isaac!" Ivan called after him when he caught up with him. "No everyone can go on your pace of motivated love!"
Isaac slowed down and then smiled at Ivan.
"I know, but I just want to see Mia so badly! I can't wait to get there!"
Piers popped up on the other side of Isaac.
"Just like a kid in a candy store?" Piers asked him with a smile.
Isaac nodded happily back, "Just like a kid in a candy story, what is that anyway?"
Piers smiled and laughed.
"In Lumeria, we have stores where they only sell candy and sweets, it's 'candy store.' I remember when I was smaller that whenever I would go there, the man would give me lots of candy for free."
"Why?"
"You see, since we live so long, children aren't born that often, they become adults in about only about a hundred years, sham really."
Isaac felt a sweat drop go down his head nice and slow.
"Uh, Piers, how old are you really?"
"I'm not going to tell you! And besides, it isn't polite to ask your elders of there age!"
Isaac smiled at Piers sarcasm, but at the same time was still disappointed in not learning his age.
"You're probably a little over two hundred, is that right?"
"No."
"What?"
"Well, once you look around twelve, you start to age twice as slow, so I'm older."
"Gees, you are old!'
"Of course I am, at least to you, in Lemuria, I'm one of the youngest men there. I'm aging like you now though, because I don't have any of the fountain water. But that isn't so bad, I don't want to be still living when your body has been in the ground for well over three hundred years, I wouldn't want that at all."
Isaac saw the flicker of fright in Piers eyes and saw that even if Piers did have the fountain water that he wouldn't want to drink it anyway. Isaac thought of that, and also thought that he would be as afraid as Piers was if all of his friends had long since died and he would till be living. It would be horrible, no matter how much you would want to forget them, they would still be there.
They were closer to Imil now, it had been a few days since they had left Biblin and they could all see the Mercury Lighthouse in the distance. It had been there for a while though, and the lit beacon had let them see it in the night. They had been traveling around the frozen beaches, and even though Isaac couldn't see Imil, he knew that he and everyone else were close to it.
A few hours later, Piers declared that he saw some houses off in the distance, and everyone had to squint to look. But it was there, and Isaac was having a hard time not running there and abandoning everyone to get there by themselves. Ivan saw that, and told everyone to speed up, and everyone did, Isaac wasn't the only one to be excited to see Mia again. Garet slipped at least twenty times every hour, and every time Felix yell at him for doing so. Everyone would laugh, and then start again. To Isaac, this was one of the most exciting days of his life.
It was nightfall, and so they set up camp, they were close enough to Imil to where they could reach it by midnight, but they would probably freeze themselves while doing it.
"Well, Piers wouldn't freeze!" Garet said as Jenna lit the fire since everyone was too afraid that he would screw up as he always did. "After all, he's also a Mercury Adept, just like Mia!"
"I do think that I could make it across without killing myself," Piers told everyone as they gathered around the fire. "But I think that Isaac would kill me for going ahead of him instead."
Everyone laughed and even Isaac laughed along with them, after all, it was probably the truth!
"Who's going to get the food this time?" asked Jenna, the sun was below the horizon now, and all that remained of it was its colors streaming across the sky. Garet's hand shot up, but Ivan instantly slapped it away, and instead Sheba got out her Meditation Rod and left the camp and waved at everyone. They all waved back, and Garet rubbed his hand and only wiggled his fingers.
"Why can't I go?" Garet demanded after Sheba had left. "I can hunt just as well as she can."
"Because, you'll mess it up, just as you always do." Felix growled back at him as moved away the bangs that always seemed to fall over one his eyes. But it just fell back, and he pushed it back anyway.
"I would not!"
"You sure about that?"
"Well, no, but I think that everyone else except for you would say that I can hunt better then Sheba can!"
"Alright, everyone in favor of saying that Garet can hunt well, raise their hands." No ones went up, and Garet scowled. "All in favor that say that he can't hunt well raise their hand." This time every hand except for Garet's went up, and he gave scowled again and Sheba came back. Garet looked at her and smiled.
"So, Sheba, you didn't catch anything?" He asked her triumphantly.
"Actually I did, it's just that it's way too big for me to carry, I was wondering if you and someone else could help me bring it back."
Garet blushed and everyone grinned and Isaac, Felix, and Piers went and helped Sheba to get whatever she caught. Ivan nudged him in the ribs and then pulled out some salt and other stale foods that they had, and Garet just hugged the side.
Isaac was having the hardest time not running to where Imil stood, he could see it, and knew that he could run to it without losing any breath. Both Piers and Felix were keeping their grip on his arms to make sure that he didn't move though, so he even if he did run, they would just lift him up and put him on their shoulders. He could see the people moving around in the snow, and also the children throwing the snowballs at each other.
They finally got there, and when they did come, all of the villagers saw them and came and greeted them smiles and pats. Isaac introduced Sheba, Jenna, Felix, and Piers as his new friends, and the people greeted them just as warm. Some of them asked how their journey had been, and of course, that confused the entire group.
"Didn't Mia tell you?" Isaac asked, but when he mentioned her name, all of the people looked away and at the ground. "What did something happen to her?" he asked urgently, the Mayor of the town spoke up.
"Something did, but we know not what. She is not sick, but there is something wrong with her, I don't think that you would want to see her. If you do, she'll be at the Lighthouse, and I warn you, a rough looking bunch went there about a few minutes ago, so be careful."
Isaac nodded and he felt guilty, she had a broken heart and was probably filled with sorrow everyday, and that was what was probably wrong with her. With a nod to the group, they all setted off to the lighthouse.
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Mia stood there at the end of the fountain as she always did, her djinn lined on her shoulders and head. She could see a group of muscular men making their way to the lighthouse, and she already knew that they were thieves. There were always thieves coming to see if they could try their luck, but none of them ever even got to the doorway. And these men would get the same treatment as all of the others did, a little frost to make them run. But maybe she should have a little fun with them, it was getting dull.
They were going up the steps and were all looking at her with hungry eyes, and again, there wasn't a female in the group. There usually never was, men, they always under estimated how effective the woman could be.
"Well, well, look at what we have her, a pretty little-girl with long blue hair. Now, that doesn't come along everyday," Mia already knew what he was going to say before he even said it. "We could get some money off of her if we make her a prostitute, if we could find the right people in the high places, rich lonely men can be dirty."
Mia sighed and held out her Frost Staff, it was the same one that she had been using ever since she had been able to make her Frost Wand into a staff. She had even found ways to make it her most powerful weapon thanks to the ancient ways of the lighthouse guardians and the lighthouse itself.
"If you can lay a single finger on me, I'll be stunned." She hissed at them, as usual, they all laughed.
"If I do, will you give me a kiss?" Why did they always ask for kissing or for, 'her womanly touch, to satisfy their needs'?
"Why don't you try no and kiss one of those men beside you, I'm sure that they have the same wanting as you do."
The man looked at her offended, and Mia rolled her eyes at him. She didn't even notice the other band of people that were running to try and help her.
"I'm tired of you men," she told them as the group that was racing across the snow got nearer. "Tundra!"
Ice pelted down at the men, and they tried to stop the ice from hitting them by waving their swords around, but the ice still came and went through their skin just as effectively as a sword would. She smiled, maybe she should have some fun, it was getting boring around here, and she deserved it.
"Ice Horn!"
More ice came and hit the men, some of it even getting stuck into their skin; she still didn't see the group of people that had suddenly stopped racing towards the Lighthouse. She laughed and then looked at the men on the ground, what worms! She kept on laughing at their pain, and they all looked at her with pure horror and pain.
"Witch! She's a witch! She'll kill us all, run!" Cried out one of the men, and all the others screamed and got up and then ran off from the lighthouse as fast as they could. Mia was still laughing at their pain and fright; it was almost like wine to her. She finally contained herself after a few seconds and then petted each of her djinn.
"Why do thieves always under estimate me, sometimes I actually feel bad for tricking them so, but it doesn't matter."
She sighed and the smile on her face fell just as quickly as it had come. She hadn't even moved from her spot on the end of the fountain, what wimps! She dusted off the top of her staff and then went back into the posture that she had everyday, only then did she notice the group of people that had been racing to help her, they were all still on the ice, and were about two yards away from the Lighthouse. Mia felt her jaw drop; it was Isaac and the group!
She backed up and then turned away and ran into the lighthouse; she didn't want to be anywhere near Isaac, or any them! She could hear their footsteps as they all raced and called after her, she could especially hear Isaac's voice, calling for her to wait. But she didn't, she just kept on running. She barely turned around to the front of the doorway, she cried out, "Hail, Sleet, freeze the floor!" She went into the room where the statue of the woman was and stepped on the tile that made her able to walk across the water, she ran across it, and then went to the statue, and the voice of the statue came.
"What is it that you seek?" It asked Mia, Mia replied so fast that her words jammed together.
"To go to a room where nothing can come and seek me!"
"Only those of a Lighthouse blood may enter."
Mia cast Ply, they were in the hall, and she had to hurry! The mouth of the statue opened and Mia raced through it, and then felt the return of Hail and Sleet as the mouth of the statue closed itself. She kept on running, but mouthed to them, "Thank you." She ran into the room with the waterfalls, and began what she had to do.
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Isaac and everyone stopped when they entered the room and saw Mia go through the mouth of the statue, Isaac called after her, but the mouth of the statue had already closed, with two of her djinn barely making it through.
"Mia!" He called after her again, but his voice just echoed through the room, Isaac kicked the wall and then sat down against it. He could feel Ivan sit down next to him, and he could also feel the wonder in of the others in the room. The wonder was, why had Mia acted like that?
"What's wrong with Mia?" Isaac asked as looked back up at the mouth of the statue. "Why was she laughing at those men's pain? She would never do that! And those spells, she had meant to make sure to get them hit! That isn't her!"
Isaac hit his head against the wall and instantly regretted it as a throbbing pain came, Piers knelt down next him and cast Ply, and the pain went away, but not the pain in his heart. Everyone was silent; they didn't know that Mia, it definitely wasn't the Mia that they knew.
"I don't get it." Isaac whispered, and then he stood up and looked at the statue of the woman across the water. He wasn't going to give up that easily! Ivan stood up along with him and put a hand on Isaac's shoulder, and everyone nodded at him, they were with him all the way. He looked around and found the tile that Mia had stepped on to walk across the floor, he felt his feet go a little numb, but he ignored it and went across the water. All of the others followed, and when they got to the statue they found it harder then they thought to fit on it. But that didn't bother Isaac either.
"What is it that you seek?" The statue asked him without opening its mouth.
"To find Mia." Isaac replied, the statues eyes flashed red for a moment.
"She does not want to be found."
"But I want to find her."
"It does not fit her wish."
"Well, what about mine?"
"Do you have the blood of the Lighthouse?"
"No."
"Then you may not enter."
"But I need to!"
"What is it that makes you want to see her?"
"Because I love her, and I need to tell her that!"
"Because you love her?"
"Yes, if you can understand what it means."
"Of course I do, there used to be love all around this lighthouse, but then it came, and now all that there is a lonely, heart broken, angry, jealous, and envies guardian, that is all that is left."
"Why would she be like that?"
"Do not ask me such a question. If you can cast the blood line of the lighthouse, then you may enter."
"But I don't have blood to the lighthouse!"
"Then you may not enter."
Isaac bit his lip for a moment, and then looked around and saw that Piers was right next to him.
"Piers, can you cast Ply on the statue?"
"Yes, why?"
"No time for answers!"
"Ply!"
The statue's eyes flashed blue this time, but the mouth still didn't open.
"What is it this time?" Isaac cried out impatiently.
"You may have cast the blood-line of the Lighthouse, but it has not been done by someone of the lighthouse."
Isaac wished that he could cast Raqnarok on this statue, this was getting annoying!
"Isaac!" Isaac turned his head around and saw Ivan pointing to a wall across the room. "There's a wall there, I think that if we go through it, we might be able to find Mia!"
"Then let's not waste time, everyone, just swim back to the other side!"
No one complained as they jumped into the unexpected freezing water and swam back to the other side. Once they all got out, they were dripping in the cold air and shivering. Ivan waited until Isaac was out of the water until he walked over to the side of the room where he had seen something. He cast Reveal again, and a hidden passageway appeared, Garet thumbed Ivan on the back so hard that he fell over. Isaac helped Ivan back up and then went through the passage way, he listened as everyone else followed him, hoping the same thing that he did. It seemed to take forever until they reached an end, but the only problem was, was that there was a wall at the end. Isaac felt like punching it until Felix stepped out in front of him.
Felix pressed his hand against the marble wall and it glowed a brownish-yellow for a moment, then the wall opened itself and allowed them through. Isaac looked at Felix, and the only response he got back was a smile. Isaac smiled gratefully back, and then went through the hole in the wall.
Isaac looked at all of the doors that lined the walls, but he already knew where to go. Jenna went over and opened one of the doors but then slammed it as fast as she could. Everyone looked at her, and she just looked at the floor.
"There are a few dead people in there, nothing else...."
Isaac felt a chill go up his spine and then he turned around and began walking down the hallway.
"Isaac!" Garet called after him, "Where are you going?"
"It's this way, I know it."
Ivan, Sheba, and Piers immediately began following him, the others waited for a while until they finally began to follow him. Isaac went all the way down the hall and stopped at the last door; he sighed, and then opened the door as quietly as he could.
He stepped in, and looked around at the majestic beauty of this blue crystal room; he could hear the others as they gasped as they looked around as well. He didn't waste time though; he immediately went to the other side of the room and began to go up the stairs. No one else followed him; both Ivan and Sheba stopped any of them from doing so. Isaac felt a heart of thanks to them, if Mia was up there, then he needed to do this without an audience.
Isaac arrived at the top of the stairs and looked around, and then he heard someone walking around in one of the rooms. He went over to the room as quietly as he could and then peeked in to see Mia, walking around the room, her staff left on the floor. And her djinn no where in sight.
"Why did he have to come? Why? I don't get it! Is this some type of a curse that the Lighthouse has put on me? To be haunted by his eyes again? Why can't he just leave me alone! I don't want him to be here, why couldn't he have just stayed in Vale with his mother and father? Why did he have to chase after me? Why did he do it?"
Mia began to mutter so quietly that Isaac couldn't hear her anymore, but that didn't matter to him. He walked into the room as quietly as he had walked in the hall, he touched Mia's shoulder softly, and she whipped back around and looked at him strait in the eye.
"How did you get in here?" She screamed at him, Isaac didn't even flinch.
"I don't need to answer that, the question is Mia, what's wrong with you?"
For only a split second, Isaac saw the pain and wounds inside of her heart behind the ice that had gathered behind those sea blue eyes. He reached out to touch her cheek, but she stepped back and turned around away from him.
"Why couldn't you have just stayed in Vale and be happy with your family? Why did you come here?"
"Because, I need to tell you Mia, that I.... I... love you."
Mia turned and looked at him again, confused, and Isaac could see the tears that were building behind her eyes.
"What?"
The tears would have been large enough to spill, but she was keeping them back with all her might.
"That's right, I love you. Sheba told me the truth about how you love me too, but now that I'm here, you don't love me as I thought that you did."
"That's not true!" Mia burst out, this time the tears coming down her face at full force. "I do love you, but no matter what I do, I can never leave this Lighthouse, when I did leave, it kept on calling me back, driving me out my skin! I couldn't stand it, if I left it again like the last time, then it would kill me. It doesn't matter what the reason is, the law of the Lighthouse say that if you leave then it means death. But the only reason it let me live is because I'm the last of the Lighthouse blood, but I know that if I leave again, it will surely kill me!"
"But what about when you go to Imil?"
"Well, that place is the just the same as Vale, it was put there to protect the lighthouse, I love you Isaac, I really do, but I can't leave!"
Mia fell to the floor, her shoulders heaving as she wept. Isaac knelt down next to her and picked her up in his arms and cradled her, she cried into his shoulder, all of her true emotions that she had froze inside melted back, the hatred evaporating. Isaac put his face in her hair, and held her, not wanting to ever let her go. But after a few minutes Mia sat up, and Isaac took one hand and wiped away the tears on her face. She smiled hopelessly at him, and he smiled back, and put as much in it as he could.
"I'm sorry." Mia told him, her voice low and quiet. "I want to be with you, but no matter what, I am bound to this Lighthouse by my blood, no matter what happens, I am bound to it forever with my life."
Isaac touched her cheek, and Mia placed her hand on top of his.
"No," Isaac said as he looked into her eyes. "There is a way, I know that there is. After all, Alex left, and he stayed away from here for years! How do you think that he did that?"
Mia shook her head.
"I don't know how he did that, but I know that I can't leave."
Isaac stood up and lifted her up with him, he wrapped his arm tight around her, and she did the same. He tilted her chin up to him, and softly kissed her. Mia kissed him back, and then their lips separated, and Mia began crying again.
"Please, Mia, don't cry, if I can't get you out of this stupid Lighthouse, then I'm going to stay here with you."
Mia looked up at him with shock. "What? But Isaac, you don't want to stay here, it's a prison!"
"Well I don't care, just as long as I get to be with you."
Mia smiled at him, this time it had hope, and Isaac could see the sparkle of life reappear in her sapphire eyes. She hugged him as tight as she could, and Isaac hugged her back. Mia didn't cry, but instead sighed softly, and Isaac felt her warm breath against his neck. He closed his eyes for a moment, and it felt like the seconds that ticked passed were like years, the years that would pass while he was with Mia, holding her just the same way as he was now.
Mia pulled away form him, but to where she was out of his grasp.
"Isaac, the days here have been horrible. I changed myself into someone that I wasn't, I'm so sorry. I should have told you that I loved you before. But I didn't, I'm so sorry."
"There's noting to be sorry about, Mia, you were afraid, I was just as afraid as you were to tell you that I loved you. Don't blame yourself."
"I can't believe.... That you love me as well, I mean, it's just that...."
Mia lost her words, but that didn't bother Isaac at all, he just took her hand and gestured for them to leave the room. Mia nodded at him, and they both went out together. Isaac could feel Mia shaking, and he stopped and looked at her and smiled.
"Mia, something wrong?"
"It's just that, I can feel my true self back, but it still doesn't make up for the way I have been for these past few months.... I've been terrible Isaac; I don't think that the villagers of Imil can ever forgive me for how I've been acting. And even the way I was with you, and all of the others, Sheba and Felix, you know? I feel so guilty; I just can't... can't believe I acted that way."
"You had a broken heart, Mia; I would have been the same way."
Mia looked at him with saddened eyes.
"I'm not so sure you would have twisted as much as I did."
"If I was in your shoes, I would."
"Thank you Isaac," Mia told him as her eyes glimmered. "You have no idea how much your words mean to me!"
She suddenly hugged him again, and then released him, but she hooked onto his arm. Isaac smiled, and entwined his hand with hers.
"I love you Mia." He whispered softly under his breath.
"I love you too Isaac." She whispered back to him as softly as he had told her. She peeked his lips softly and then rested her head on his shoulder. Isaac lightly touched her hair, and then Mia took her head off of his shoulder and looked forward. Isaac looked in the same direction, and then led Mia down the stairs. They were all greeted by the group, and Garet gave Mia a bone-crushing hug. Mia was almost crying even though there was no extra shine in her eyes, Isaac could just feel it. After everyone had given both Mia and Isaac a pat, hug, or just something otherwise, Mia turned to the stairs.
"Everyone, come out!"
Isaac felt confused for a moment but then it went away when her djinn bounced down the stairs like gum. They all jumped up on Mia, and she gave them each a tender touch and smile. She really did love them, because they hadn't left her when she had turned away from her true self and became something that she wasn't. At least, that was what Isaac had thought. After that, Mia told the others of how she couldn't leave the Lighthouse, and how last time she had done so with them, it had nearly killed her.
"But what about Alex?" Garet asked Mia, "He left years before we came to Imil, and he didn't seem to be dead to me!"
"Well, I'm have no idea how he did that." Mia answered to Garet solemnly.
"I do." Everyone turned around and looked at Piers, but his gaze was the floor. "In Lumeria, King Hydros once told me a tale of how the keepers of the Lighthouse were bounded and could not leave. It was so long ago, it just came to me now, I was just a child you see, I can't really remember things from my childhood that well. Only things that seemed to please me the most, bad things, happy things, and so on. I was with King Hydros, because my father used to be a good friend of his before he died, we were there because.... Of... I think it was the day that they had first met, anyway, King Hydros was telling me...." Piers stopped and his eyebrows went together as he tried to remember what exactly he had been told.
"I think.... Drat... I can't remember, all that comes to mind is this little song that King Hydros sang to me.... Let me see, it goes: Azo nale loomu uco shemaca senaro... elca norash faleda norese Elcoma kasho norame, teld usi okko yuunia. Yes, there it is."
"What the HELL does that mean?" Jenna cried out, and slammed her foot into the floor and regretted doing so as she gripped her foot in pain.
"Oh, sorry, I forgot to translate it. In this language, it would be, let me think.... 'Those who are bound must look to the Pieces of a Broken Heart and only then can your blood free you.'"
"Again, what the hell does that mean?" Jenna demanded, no longer holding her foot. Piers only shrugged and kept on looking at the floor. Mia almost bolted out of the room if Isaac hadn't stopped her.
"Mia, what is it?" Isaac asked her as she bit her lip.
"What Piers said, I know what it means! In one room, it's a secret room; it has a heart in it. Well, it's actually the statue of a star, but that's the symbol of a heart in the lighthouse. It's broken into five pieces, my mother ad father always told me never to touch or else something horrible would happen. That must be what it is! We need to go there!"
Mia looked at Isaac, her heart racing, if this was the way to escape the Lighthouse, then she wanted go there as fast as she could! Isaac nodded and let her go, she ran out of the room, and all of the others followed. She got to the end of the hallway, and then Isaac realized that the way they had come had been sealed shut. But Mia tapped the floor with her foot twice and the hole reappeared. She ran through it, wasting no time, once she out she kept on running, and then went to the other side of the room and to the next one. Isaac followed her; he could remember each of these rooms as well as if it were his own house. Mia kept on going through different rooms until they reached a room a with a dead-end. But she went to the end of it and cast Ply on the wall, and the blue bricks in the walls moved and a doorway appeared. She slowly went through it, and as Isaac would do for the rest of his life, he followed her.
Ok, bad chapter, I know, well, I have to go to church now! And the muses are asleep! I thank the Lord for that.
So until next time,
CrypticElf....
Hail: Why would somebody want to talk to you?
I shall ignore you. Well, it's just that, I don't like to go in chat rooms!
Sleet: Why not, they like to party in there!
Well, I like to party, but when I ask if anyone likes video games no one says any thing to me, I wish that they had chat rooms for ff.net. It isn't fair! I just want some friends that I can e-mail or instant message!
Sleet: I guess that it could get lonely, couldn't it?
Yes, it could, and it is. I'm all alone, there's nobody beside me!
Gust: I almost feel bad for you!
Oh, shut up.
Gust: Seriously, I mean it!
Poo poo.
Hail: Where did that come from?
I think that my sister's cat just went to the bathroom on the floor.
Sleet: But your sister doesn't have a cat.
Wait, you're right.... Oh no.
Gust: What?
Her year and a half toddler has dyaria.
Sleet: Eewwwww!
Please no.....
Gust: SO, I think that I can conclude that that is not good.
What do you think?
Hail: I am NOT cleaning that up!
Now this just sucks. I'm going to clean it up as you reviewers read it and then review, now Sleet, could you just lend a hand once?
Sleet: I don't have a hand.
Never mind. I own nothing of GoldenSun, but everything that happens in this story is mine. I need a rag and some cleaning stuff.
Chapter Three: Pieces of a Broken Heart
Isaac and co. made their way across the ice, they had just left Biblin (Is that what's called?) and were now headed off to Imil. They had traveled far enough to where the snow hadn't melted yet and was still as hard as a rock. At least it made the journey easier for them, or did it?
"WATCH OUT!"
Garet slipped and slid across the ice after tripping and falling down a hill. He was in the back, so h hit everyone on his way down.
"Garet you clumsy moron!" Felix yelled at him when had gotten back up and was standing over him like a tower. "How can someone slip SO much?"
Piers stood up, trying to hide his laughter, it didn't work and Felix shoot a look at him.
"What's so funny?" Felix demanded, most of the time others would shrivel at his glare, but for some reason it never seemed to affect Piers.
"Nothing!" Piers replied back innocently after he got his laughter under control. Isaac was already up and marching, not waiting for anyone else. The rest of them had to run in order to catch with him, Garet slipped again, but everyone was out of his slipping range. Only Jenna went over to help him, and Felix gave her a disapproving look. Isaac was still set strait ahead, trying to go as fast as he could to Imil, why had he waited until after winter to go?
"Slow down Isaac!" Ivan called after him when he caught up with him. "No everyone can go on your pace of motivated love!"
Isaac slowed down and then smiled at Ivan.
"I know, but I just want to see Mia so badly! I can't wait to get there!"
Piers popped up on the other side of Isaac.
"Just like a kid in a candy store?" Piers asked him with a smile.
Isaac nodded happily back, "Just like a kid in a candy story, what is that anyway?"
Piers smiled and laughed.
"In Lumeria, we have stores where they only sell candy and sweets, it's 'candy store.' I remember when I was smaller that whenever I would go there, the man would give me lots of candy for free."
"Why?"
"You see, since we live so long, children aren't born that often, they become adults in about only about a hundred years, sham really."
Isaac felt a sweat drop go down his head nice and slow.
"Uh, Piers, how old are you really?"
"I'm not going to tell you! And besides, it isn't polite to ask your elders of there age!"
Isaac smiled at Piers sarcasm, but at the same time was still disappointed in not learning his age.
"You're probably a little over two hundred, is that right?"
"No."
"What?"
"Well, once you look around twelve, you start to age twice as slow, so I'm older."
"Gees, you are old!'
"Of course I am, at least to you, in Lemuria, I'm one of the youngest men there. I'm aging like you now though, because I don't have any of the fountain water. But that isn't so bad, I don't want to be still living when your body has been in the ground for well over three hundred years, I wouldn't want that at all."
Isaac saw the flicker of fright in Piers eyes and saw that even if Piers did have the fountain water that he wouldn't want to drink it anyway. Isaac thought of that, and also thought that he would be as afraid as Piers was if all of his friends had long since died and he would till be living. It would be horrible, no matter how much you would want to forget them, they would still be there.
They were closer to Imil now, it had been a few days since they had left Biblin and they could all see the Mercury Lighthouse in the distance. It had been there for a while though, and the lit beacon had let them see it in the night. They had been traveling around the frozen beaches, and even though Isaac couldn't see Imil, he knew that he and everyone else were close to it.
A few hours later, Piers declared that he saw some houses off in the distance, and everyone had to squint to look. But it was there, and Isaac was having a hard time not running there and abandoning everyone to get there by themselves. Ivan saw that, and told everyone to speed up, and everyone did, Isaac wasn't the only one to be excited to see Mia again. Garet slipped at least twenty times every hour, and every time Felix yell at him for doing so. Everyone would laugh, and then start again. To Isaac, this was one of the most exciting days of his life.
It was nightfall, and so they set up camp, they were close enough to Imil to where they could reach it by midnight, but they would probably freeze themselves while doing it.
"Well, Piers wouldn't freeze!" Garet said as Jenna lit the fire since everyone was too afraid that he would screw up as he always did. "After all, he's also a Mercury Adept, just like Mia!"
"I do think that I could make it across without killing myself," Piers told everyone as they gathered around the fire. "But I think that Isaac would kill me for going ahead of him instead."
Everyone laughed and even Isaac laughed along with them, after all, it was probably the truth!
"Who's going to get the food this time?" asked Jenna, the sun was below the horizon now, and all that remained of it was its colors streaming across the sky. Garet's hand shot up, but Ivan instantly slapped it away, and instead Sheba got out her Meditation Rod and left the camp and waved at everyone. They all waved back, and Garet rubbed his hand and only wiggled his fingers.
"Why can't I go?" Garet demanded after Sheba had left. "I can hunt just as well as she can."
"Because, you'll mess it up, just as you always do." Felix growled back at him as moved away the bangs that always seemed to fall over one his eyes. But it just fell back, and he pushed it back anyway.
"I would not!"
"You sure about that?"
"Well, no, but I think that everyone else except for you would say that I can hunt better then Sheba can!"
"Alright, everyone in favor of saying that Garet can hunt well, raise their hands." No ones went up, and Garet scowled. "All in favor that say that he can't hunt well raise their hand." This time every hand except for Garet's went up, and he gave scowled again and Sheba came back. Garet looked at her and smiled.
"So, Sheba, you didn't catch anything?" He asked her triumphantly.
"Actually I did, it's just that it's way too big for me to carry, I was wondering if you and someone else could help me bring it back."
Garet blushed and everyone grinned and Isaac, Felix, and Piers went and helped Sheba to get whatever she caught. Ivan nudged him in the ribs and then pulled out some salt and other stale foods that they had, and Garet just hugged the side.
Isaac was having the hardest time not running to where Imil stood, he could see it, and knew that he could run to it without losing any breath. Both Piers and Felix were keeping their grip on his arms to make sure that he didn't move though, so he even if he did run, they would just lift him up and put him on their shoulders. He could see the people moving around in the snow, and also the children throwing the snowballs at each other.
They finally got there, and when they did come, all of the villagers saw them and came and greeted them smiles and pats. Isaac introduced Sheba, Jenna, Felix, and Piers as his new friends, and the people greeted them just as warm. Some of them asked how their journey had been, and of course, that confused the entire group.
"Didn't Mia tell you?" Isaac asked, but when he mentioned her name, all of the people looked away and at the ground. "What did something happen to her?" he asked urgently, the Mayor of the town spoke up.
"Something did, but we know not what. She is not sick, but there is something wrong with her, I don't think that you would want to see her. If you do, she'll be at the Lighthouse, and I warn you, a rough looking bunch went there about a few minutes ago, so be careful."
Isaac nodded and he felt guilty, she had a broken heart and was probably filled with sorrow everyday, and that was what was probably wrong with her. With a nod to the group, they all setted off to the lighthouse.
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Mia stood there at the end of the fountain as she always did, her djinn lined on her shoulders and head. She could see a group of muscular men making their way to the lighthouse, and she already knew that they were thieves. There were always thieves coming to see if they could try their luck, but none of them ever even got to the doorway. And these men would get the same treatment as all of the others did, a little frost to make them run. But maybe she should have a little fun with them, it was getting dull.
They were going up the steps and were all looking at her with hungry eyes, and again, there wasn't a female in the group. There usually never was, men, they always under estimated how effective the woman could be.
"Well, well, look at what we have her, a pretty little-girl with long blue hair. Now, that doesn't come along everyday," Mia already knew what he was going to say before he even said it. "We could get some money off of her if we make her a prostitute, if we could find the right people in the high places, rich lonely men can be dirty."
Mia sighed and held out her Frost Staff, it was the same one that she had been using ever since she had been able to make her Frost Wand into a staff. She had even found ways to make it her most powerful weapon thanks to the ancient ways of the lighthouse guardians and the lighthouse itself.
"If you can lay a single finger on me, I'll be stunned." She hissed at them, as usual, they all laughed.
"If I do, will you give me a kiss?" Why did they always ask for kissing or for, 'her womanly touch, to satisfy their needs'?
"Why don't you try no and kiss one of those men beside you, I'm sure that they have the same wanting as you do."
The man looked at her offended, and Mia rolled her eyes at him. She didn't even notice the other band of people that were running to try and help her.
"I'm tired of you men," she told them as the group that was racing across the snow got nearer. "Tundra!"
Ice pelted down at the men, and they tried to stop the ice from hitting them by waving their swords around, but the ice still came and went through their skin just as effectively as a sword would. She smiled, maybe she should have some fun, it was getting boring around here, and she deserved it.
"Ice Horn!"
More ice came and hit the men, some of it even getting stuck into their skin; she still didn't see the group of people that had suddenly stopped racing towards the Lighthouse. She laughed and then looked at the men on the ground, what worms! She kept on laughing at their pain, and they all looked at her with pure horror and pain.
"Witch! She's a witch! She'll kill us all, run!" Cried out one of the men, and all the others screamed and got up and then ran off from the lighthouse as fast as they could. Mia was still laughing at their pain and fright; it was almost like wine to her. She finally contained herself after a few seconds and then petted each of her djinn.
"Why do thieves always under estimate me, sometimes I actually feel bad for tricking them so, but it doesn't matter."
She sighed and the smile on her face fell just as quickly as it had come. She hadn't even moved from her spot on the end of the fountain, what wimps! She dusted off the top of her staff and then went back into the posture that she had everyday, only then did she notice the group of people that had been racing to help her, they were all still on the ice, and were about two yards away from the Lighthouse. Mia felt her jaw drop; it was Isaac and the group!
She backed up and then turned away and ran into the lighthouse; she didn't want to be anywhere near Isaac, or any them! She could hear their footsteps as they all raced and called after her, she could especially hear Isaac's voice, calling for her to wait. But she didn't, she just kept on running. She barely turned around to the front of the doorway, she cried out, "Hail, Sleet, freeze the floor!" She went into the room where the statue of the woman was and stepped on the tile that made her able to walk across the water, she ran across it, and then went to the statue, and the voice of the statue came.
"What is it that you seek?" It asked Mia, Mia replied so fast that her words jammed together.
"To go to a room where nothing can come and seek me!"
"Only those of a Lighthouse blood may enter."
Mia cast Ply, they were in the hall, and she had to hurry! The mouth of the statue opened and Mia raced through it, and then felt the return of Hail and Sleet as the mouth of the statue closed itself. She kept on running, but mouthed to them, "Thank you." She ran into the room with the waterfalls, and began what she had to do.
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Isaac and everyone stopped when they entered the room and saw Mia go through the mouth of the statue, Isaac called after her, but the mouth of the statue had already closed, with two of her djinn barely making it through.
"Mia!" He called after her again, but his voice just echoed through the room, Isaac kicked the wall and then sat down against it. He could feel Ivan sit down next to him, and he could also feel the wonder in of the others in the room. The wonder was, why had Mia acted like that?
"What's wrong with Mia?" Isaac asked as looked back up at the mouth of the statue. "Why was she laughing at those men's pain? She would never do that! And those spells, she had meant to make sure to get them hit! That isn't her!"
Isaac hit his head against the wall and instantly regretted it as a throbbing pain came, Piers knelt down next him and cast Ply, and the pain went away, but not the pain in his heart. Everyone was silent; they didn't know that Mia, it definitely wasn't the Mia that they knew.
"I don't get it." Isaac whispered, and then he stood up and looked at the statue of the woman across the water. He wasn't going to give up that easily! Ivan stood up along with him and put a hand on Isaac's shoulder, and everyone nodded at him, they were with him all the way. He looked around and found the tile that Mia had stepped on to walk across the floor, he felt his feet go a little numb, but he ignored it and went across the water. All of the others followed, and when they got to the statue they found it harder then they thought to fit on it. But that didn't bother Isaac either.
"What is it that you seek?" The statue asked him without opening its mouth.
"To find Mia." Isaac replied, the statues eyes flashed red for a moment.
"She does not want to be found."
"But I want to find her."
"It does not fit her wish."
"Well, what about mine?"
"Do you have the blood of the Lighthouse?"
"No."
"Then you may not enter."
"But I need to!"
"What is it that makes you want to see her?"
"Because I love her, and I need to tell her that!"
"Because you love her?"
"Yes, if you can understand what it means."
"Of course I do, there used to be love all around this lighthouse, but then it came, and now all that there is a lonely, heart broken, angry, jealous, and envies guardian, that is all that is left."
"Why would she be like that?"
"Do not ask me such a question. If you can cast the blood line of the lighthouse, then you may enter."
"But I don't have blood to the lighthouse!"
"Then you may not enter."
Isaac bit his lip for a moment, and then looked around and saw that Piers was right next to him.
"Piers, can you cast Ply on the statue?"
"Yes, why?"
"No time for answers!"
"Ply!"
The statue's eyes flashed blue this time, but the mouth still didn't open.
"What is it this time?" Isaac cried out impatiently.
"You may have cast the blood-line of the Lighthouse, but it has not been done by someone of the lighthouse."
Isaac wished that he could cast Raqnarok on this statue, this was getting annoying!
"Isaac!" Isaac turned his head around and saw Ivan pointing to a wall across the room. "There's a wall there, I think that if we go through it, we might be able to find Mia!"
"Then let's not waste time, everyone, just swim back to the other side!"
No one complained as they jumped into the unexpected freezing water and swam back to the other side. Once they all got out, they were dripping in the cold air and shivering. Ivan waited until Isaac was out of the water until he walked over to the side of the room where he had seen something. He cast Reveal again, and a hidden passageway appeared, Garet thumbed Ivan on the back so hard that he fell over. Isaac helped Ivan back up and then went through the passage way, he listened as everyone else followed him, hoping the same thing that he did. It seemed to take forever until they reached an end, but the only problem was, was that there was a wall at the end. Isaac felt like punching it until Felix stepped out in front of him.
Felix pressed his hand against the marble wall and it glowed a brownish-yellow for a moment, then the wall opened itself and allowed them through. Isaac looked at Felix, and the only response he got back was a smile. Isaac smiled gratefully back, and then went through the hole in the wall.
Isaac looked at all of the doors that lined the walls, but he already knew where to go. Jenna went over and opened one of the doors but then slammed it as fast as she could. Everyone looked at her, and she just looked at the floor.
"There are a few dead people in there, nothing else...."
Isaac felt a chill go up his spine and then he turned around and began walking down the hallway.
"Isaac!" Garet called after him, "Where are you going?"
"It's this way, I know it."
Ivan, Sheba, and Piers immediately began following him, the others waited for a while until they finally began to follow him. Isaac went all the way down the hall and stopped at the last door; he sighed, and then opened the door as quietly as he could.
He stepped in, and looked around at the majestic beauty of this blue crystal room; he could hear the others as they gasped as they looked around as well. He didn't waste time though; he immediately went to the other side of the room and began to go up the stairs. No one else followed him; both Ivan and Sheba stopped any of them from doing so. Isaac felt a heart of thanks to them, if Mia was up there, then he needed to do this without an audience.
Isaac arrived at the top of the stairs and looked around, and then he heard someone walking around in one of the rooms. He went over to the room as quietly as he could and then peeked in to see Mia, walking around the room, her staff left on the floor. And her djinn no where in sight.
"Why did he have to come? Why? I don't get it! Is this some type of a curse that the Lighthouse has put on me? To be haunted by his eyes again? Why can't he just leave me alone! I don't want him to be here, why couldn't he have just stayed in Vale with his mother and father? Why did he have to chase after me? Why did he do it?"
Mia began to mutter so quietly that Isaac couldn't hear her anymore, but that didn't matter to him. He walked into the room as quietly as he had walked in the hall, he touched Mia's shoulder softly, and she whipped back around and looked at him strait in the eye.
"How did you get in here?" She screamed at him, Isaac didn't even flinch.
"I don't need to answer that, the question is Mia, what's wrong with you?"
For only a split second, Isaac saw the pain and wounds inside of her heart behind the ice that had gathered behind those sea blue eyes. He reached out to touch her cheek, but she stepped back and turned around away from him.
"Why couldn't you have just stayed in Vale and be happy with your family? Why did you come here?"
"Because, I need to tell you Mia, that I.... I... love you."
Mia turned and looked at him again, confused, and Isaac could see the tears that were building behind her eyes.
"What?"
The tears would have been large enough to spill, but she was keeping them back with all her might.
"That's right, I love you. Sheba told me the truth about how you love me too, but now that I'm here, you don't love me as I thought that you did."
"That's not true!" Mia burst out, this time the tears coming down her face at full force. "I do love you, but no matter what I do, I can never leave this Lighthouse, when I did leave, it kept on calling me back, driving me out my skin! I couldn't stand it, if I left it again like the last time, then it would kill me. It doesn't matter what the reason is, the law of the Lighthouse say that if you leave then it means death. But the only reason it let me live is because I'm the last of the Lighthouse blood, but I know that if I leave again, it will surely kill me!"
"But what about when you go to Imil?"
"Well, that place is the just the same as Vale, it was put there to protect the lighthouse, I love you Isaac, I really do, but I can't leave!"
Mia fell to the floor, her shoulders heaving as she wept. Isaac knelt down next to her and picked her up in his arms and cradled her, she cried into his shoulder, all of her true emotions that she had froze inside melted back, the hatred evaporating. Isaac put his face in her hair, and held her, not wanting to ever let her go. But after a few minutes Mia sat up, and Isaac took one hand and wiped away the tears on her face. She smiled hopelessly at him, and he smiled back, and put as much in it as he could.
"I'm sorry." Mia told him, her voice low and quiet. "I want to be with you, but no matter what, I am bound to this Lighthouse by my blood, no matter what happens, I am bound to it forever with my life."
Isaac touched her cheek, and Mia placed her hand on top of his.
"No," Isaac said as he looked into her eyes. "There is a way, I know that there is. After all, Alex left, and he stayed away from here for years! How do you think that he did that?"
Mia shook her head.
"I don't know how he did that, but I know that I can't leave."
Isaac stood up and lifted her up with him, he wrapped his arm tight around her, and she did the same. He tilted her chin up to him, and softly kissed her. Mia kissed him back, and then their lips separated, and Mia began crying again.
"Please, Mia, don't cry, if I can't get you out of this stupid Lighthouse, then I'm going to stay here with you."
Mia looked up at him with shock. "What? But Isaac, you don't want to stay here, it's a prison!"
"Well I don't care, just as long as I get to be with you."
Mia smiled at him, this time it had hope, and Isaac could see the sparkle of life reappear in her sapphire eyes. She hugged him as tight as she could, and Isaac hugged her back. Mia didn't cry, but instead sighed softly, and Isaac felt her warm breath against his neck. He closed his eyes for a moment, and it felt like the seconds that ticked passed were like years, the years that would pass while he was with Mia, holding her just the same way as he was now.
Mia pulled away form him, but to where she was out of his grasp.
"Isaac, the days here have been horrible. I changed myself into someone that I wasn't, I'm so sorry. I should have told you that I loved you before. But I didn't, I'm so sorry."
"There's noting to be sorry about, Mia, you were afraid, I was just as afraid as you were to tell you that I loved you. Don't blame yourself."
"I can't believe.... That you love me as well, I mean, it's just that...."
Mia lost her words, but that didn't bother Isaac at all, he just took her hand and gestured for them to leave the room. Mia nodded at him, and they both went out together. Isaac could feel Mia shaking, and he stopped and looked at her and smiled.
"Mia, something wrong?"
"It's just that, I can feel my true self back, but it still doesn't make up for the way I have been for these past few months.... I've been terrible Isaac; I don't think that the villagers of Imil can ever forgive me for how I've been acting. And even the way I was with you, and all of the others, Sheba and Felix, you know? I feel so guilty; I just can't... can't believe I acted that way."
"You had a broken heart, Mia; I would have been the same way."
Mia looked at him with saddened eyes.
"I'm not so sure you would have twisted as much as I did."
"If I was in your shoes, I would."
"Thank you Isaac," Mia told him as her eyes glimmered. "You have no idea how much your words mean to me!"
She suddenly hugged him again, and then released him, but she hooked onto his arm. Isaac smiled, and entwined his hand with hers.
"I love you Mia." He whispered softly under his breath.
"I love you too Isaac." She whispered back to him as softly as he had told her. She peeked his lips softly and then rested her head on his shoulder. Isaac lightly touched her hair, and then Mia took her head off of his shoulder and looked forward. Isaac looked in the same direction, and then led Mia down the stairs. They were all greeted by the group, and Garet gave Mia a bone-crushing hug. Mia was almost crying even though there was no extra shine in her eyes, Isaac could just feel it. After everyone had given both Mia and Isaac a pat, hug, or just something otherwise, Mia turned to the stairs.
"Everyone, come out!"
Isaac felt confused for a moment but then it went away when her djinn bounced down the stairs like gum. They all jumped up on Mia, and she gave them each a tender touch and smile. She really did love them, because they hadn't left her when she had turned away from her true self and became something that she wasn't. At least, that was what Isaac had thought. After that, Mia told the others of how she couldn't leave the Lighthouse, and how last time she had done so with them, it had nearly killed her.
"But what about Alex?" Garet asked Mia, "He left years before we came to Imil, and he didn't seem to be dead to me!"
"Well, I'm have no idea how he did that." Mia answered to Garet solemnly.
"I do." Everyone turned around and looked at Piers, but his gaze was the floor. "In Lumeria, King Hydros once told me a tale of how the keepers of the Lighthouse were bounded and could not leave. It was so long ago, it just came to me now, I was just a child you see, I can't really remember things from my childhood that well. Only things that seemed to please me the most, bad things, happy things, and so on. I was with King Hydros, because my father used to be a good friend of his before he died, we were there because.... Of... I think it was the day that they had first met, anyway, King Hydros was telling me...." Piers stopped and his eyebrows went together as he tried to remember what exactly he had been told.
"I think.... Drat... I can't remember, all that comes to mind is this little song that King Hydros sang to me.... Let me see, it goes: Azo nale loomu uco shemaca senaro... elca norash faleda norese Elcoma kasho norame, teld usi okko yuunia. Yes, there it is."
"What the HELL does that mean?" Jenna cried out, and slammed her foot into the floor and regretted doing so as she gripped her foot in pain.
"Oh, sorry, I forgot to translate it. In this language, it would be, let me think.... 'Those who are bound must look to the Pieces of a Broken Heart and only then can your blood free you.'"
"Again, what the hell does that mean?" Jenna demanded, no longer holding her foot. Piers only shrugged and kept on looking at the floor. Mia almost bolted out of the room if Isaac hadn't stopped her.
"Mia, what is it?" Isaac asked her as she bit her lip.
"What Piers said, I know what it means! In one room, it's a secret room; it has a heart in it. Well, it's actually the statue of a star, but that's the symbol of a heart in the lighthouse. It's broken into five pieces, my mother ad father always told me never to touch or else something horrible would happen. That must be what it is! We need to go there!"
Mia looked at Isaac, her heart racing, if this was the way to escape the Lighthouse, then she wanted go there as fast as she could! Isaac nodded and let her go, she ran out of the room, and all of the others followed. She got to the end of the hallway, and then Isaac realized that the way they had come had been sealed shut. But Mia tapped the floor with her foot twice and the hole reappeared. She ran through it, wasting no time, once she out she kept on running, and then went to the other side of the room and to the next one. Isaac followed her; he could remember each of these rooms as well as if it were his own house. Mia kept on going through different rooms until they reached a room a with a dead-end. But she went to the end of it and cast Ply on the wall, and the blue bricks in the walls moved and a doorway appeared. She slowly went through it, and as Isaac would do for the rest of his life, he followed her.
Ok, bad chapter, I know, well, I have to go to church now! And the muses are asleep! I thank the Lord for that.
So until next time,
CrypticElf....