Chapter Six: Calling Out For Grandma
The room Maru was in now was very well lit, and it had a long table and six chairs in it. Maru decided that this was the dining room, the room where everyone ate. She looked around to see another note from her grandma and another page from the diary. She read the note first, "Dear Maru, Please be careful. Namie seems to be getting madder, and you can tell by how her thorns tighten. She needs your help, but one touch from her and you will die. This isn't a game; you can't start over, so please be careful. I will write to you later. Love your grandma."
"Grandma," Maru said in a sad whisper. She knew no one could hear her, at least no one alive could hear her. Maru went and picked up the diary page, half was torn off, but she read what she could.
This page read, "June 8th my daddy was laughing about something. I heard him talking to grandpa and grandma. I love them both. When I was spying I heard them say that I was getting old enough to do something. They called it…" the rest was missing on the other half.
Maru put both pieces of paper in her bag and wrote in her journal. She wrote how she thinks that it's the next day. She also wrote about her experience last night, and how she ended up here. Then she put her journal away, looked around for anything else, and left for the kitchen door.