Chapter Twenty-Two: The Dreams
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." -Aristotle Onassis
The next morning, Sibuna was congregated around the breakfast table talking about the visions that Eddie and Nina had in the middle of the night. Fabian wrote both of the riddles on a piece of paper:
'The god of light shall point the way to a book about the flight.
The book shall be revealed in the depths of night.
There you will find the answers that are right.'
'Search and search, but you will not find.
You need a heart of kind.
Only then can you know
how to defeat the foe.'
"What do you think it means?" Patricia asked to the group. Eddie squeezed her hand while the KT, Alfie, and Nina shrugged their shoulders.
"Maybe there's a book in the study about Ra, the sun god," Fabian suggested.
"That doesn't make sense. Not everything is in books Fabian," KT cranked. "Sorry, Fabian. I didn't sleep well last night." She paused for a second and went on. "Ra is supposed to point the way to a book. That means we won't find this first part in a book."
"KT's right," Nina said.
"What about the beam at the beginning of the tunnels?" Alfie asked. "It points to the east where the sun rises and goes up, moving toward the west."
"Alfie, when did you get so smart?" Fabian asked. Alfie gave him a hurt look and Fabian said, "Sorry… it's just…"
"It's okay, dude. I was just trying to psych you out," Alfie responded with a laugh as Patricia rolled her eyes.
They were about to run down to the cellar when Victor came down the stairs and yelled, "Shouldn't you six be headed off to school?" They all mumbled inaudible responses as they turned to the door.
As soon as they got out the front door, Nina said, "Do you guys want to go at lunch?"
"Nina," Patricia said, "we can't all go. That's too suspicious. At least one person if not more has to stay behind and hold the fort. So who's staying?"
"Obviously, Nina and Eddie have to go. There the ones that had the visions." Fabian said.
"I can stay, I'm sure I can come up with a pretty good excuse," KT said.
"I'll stay too," Alfie said.
Patricia looked at Eddie and he said, "You should come. You are usually the one who stays behind."
"Honestly," she responded, "someone needs to keep an eye on these two." She pointed her head at KT and Alfie, "If they aren't careful they will screw up the stories, then we'll have a problem. Plus, I think that we all know that I'm not much of a help when it comes to anything book related. I'll stay with them and help." She smiled at Eddie with a sorry look on her face.
"I guess that means that I'm going," Fabian said.
"Great, I'm stuck couple sitting," Eddie whispered so only Patricia heard him.
She gave a small laugh and whispered back, "Nina would have been doing that if I had gone. I was trying to spare her." He gave her a quick peck on the lips and they all walked to class.
The three of them all stood as the beam of ray scanned them from bottom to top and stopped at the amulets. They all breathed a sigh of relief as Fabian beamed the flash light up to the ceiling and, low and behold, there was a sun signal on it. "If only we had a latter," Eddie said.
"Maybe not," Fabian said. "If you and I both gave Nina a boost, she could probably reach it."
"Good thing I changed into pants before I came down here," Nina muttered to herself as the boosted herself up as the two boys raised her so she could reach the symbol.
She pushed the mark inward and she heard the ancient tumblers creak into action as a small slot opened up. Inside the slot there was a note that read:
The point of Ra shall be the rise of the sun where night meets light.
*Sorry, but you have to admit, I'm getting pretty good at ticking you guys off with my cliffhangers.*