I woke up to the worm feeling of robin on my back. At some point in the night I had rolled over and I was now facing away from him. I slowly turned back around, trying not to wake Robin, so I could face him. When I turned around, to my surprise he was already awake. I froze were I was. Maybe he was just sleeping with his eyes open. Highly unlikely. He slowly started to smile at me. His hand slipped around my waist once more, and without warning he pulled me closer than ever before. We both started to laugh.
"What now?" I ask.
"We go and find these four items, do what we need to do to the tree, and save all of moonacre yet again" he responded.
"Were do we start though?" I asked.
He looked at me and I looked at him for a few minutes. I hit me just then harder than a rock breaking bone. My face lit up with happiness. I knew exactly what to do.
"The painting!" I said.
"The what?" he asked.
By then I was already throwing on my shoes and running out the door. Yup, still there, were I left it. The painting of the first ever moon princess. I stared at the painting for I while. I didn't notice Robin was there until he moved closer to it. The painting then started to move. The princess stepped aside, yet again, showing her home. It was just like before, only this time, I was inside it, looking through the tunnel.
"Robin…" I said. "Do you remember the way to the moon princess's house in the tree?"
"Yes…" he replied slowly. "Why do you ask?"
"I know where to go to find the first object"
Almost instantly I saw Robins eyes get wider, as though he knew exactly what I was talking about. He dashed down the stairs, and I followed. We made it five minutes into the woods before we finally slowed down. We travelled for another five minutes before the tree came into view. Somehow I ended up next to robin, and his hand slowly starting to push me along. We got to the tree and I went in first. Nothing changed, and why would it? That was the problem. It looked exactly like it did before I lifted the curse. Odd.
We went in, and I opened the door. Robin came in behind me. I stared at the bed for a minute. This was a chunk of moonacres history. It was beautiful. Robin came over to me and waved his hand in front of my face, waking me up from my almost eternal trance. I walked over to where the horse head was and pushed it down. I walked through the opening and started down the long, narrow passage way.
When I went through the tunnel, I came to a 'fork in the road'. I didn't relies that this was here last time round. Last time I think we went left, so this time we need to go right. And so we did. We headed down the long passage for what seemed to be hours, until we came to another door.
I pushed open the door very slowly and looked around. There were torches lit on the walls, and a couch that was dusty along with a rug. The only thing that caught my eye though was the wall on the opposite end. The wall was the edge of the ocean! I don't know how the water was not flooding the place, but it wasn't.
I looked at robin, and he looked at me. Then it dawned on me like the sun rising.
"Robin!" I said. "That is the water from the deepest trench!"