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=The Tales of Sir Fedricky and His Lovely Sister Memith= This is the tale of Sir Fedricky and his lovely sister whom he will underestimate later in this story. It shall be told from my own point of view so if you wish to have a happy gay tale, you must contact my brother for he is very optimistic. This is a story of the hardships of two children who have a very unfortunate life not including the fact that they live with each other. So now listen closely and you shall learn of the untold adventures of these unfortunate siblings. The day was the coldest I am sure that I will ever see. I was sure that the temperature was off the charts as we started out at six in the morning. We had been bundled up well,(my brother and I) but the wind still seemed to go right through our clothes to our bones. The old sisters had been kind enough to lend us some coats and hats and even one full day of food. We had grown up with our family in Brookline Massachusetts. We had been planning on visiting our grandparents in Washington DC. But our plane took and unfortunate dive and we were randomly dumped in the woods with nobody alive. We had found three sisters who gave us shelter and a small portion of food. We had tried to get some information about where in the big world we were, but they obviously had lost their memory long ago and they could not answer. We had only stayed with them for eight days but that was enough time for the fall to turn into a harsh unforgiving winter. One of the sisters stood in the doorway and we waved as we trudged through the wet snow. I looked sideways as we descended into the woods. The snow was not as thick under the trees, but an inch of snow still covered the ground. “Do you have any plans of where we are actually going?” I asked feeling the freeze of the cold in my bones. “Memith please don’t ask me that unsettleling question, but no. I do need to admit I do not know exactly where we are going. There was a peaceful silence as I listened to the wind brushing over the trees. We stepped over branches and we needed to sometimes duck in order to avoid any injuries. “Fedricky, I need to take a rest for my feet are sore and cold. May you give me the bundle of spam the sisters made us?” I asked after we had taken maybe a half –an-hour walk. He handed me the small cloth bag covered in dirt. I Looked inside and gasped. “This is all they gave us?! You can’t be serious!” “Yes. I do agree that they gave us a very small portion of food.” I dug a small hard piece of spam from the withered bag. “Don’t eat too much. We need to get out of the woods and maybe we could even find a trail or a passage.” Maybe we should start to move now.” I said with effort. I just wanted to sit and rest, but a long walk through the winter… I might want to just get that over with. I got up and Fedricky stumbled against a tree. We started moving; doing the same stumble over here and climb over logs and duck under tree branches routine. It was very tiring work and my sneakers were sopping wet. All of a sudden we stumbled onto a ledge. I was about to fall and pass out anyway and I was almost glad that we had no way to go now. Fedricky looked hard at the cliff that sloped down sharply. I looked down, down, down… “There is no way what so ever we were going to survive this.” I thought miserably as I sat on the frozen ground. Fedricky was pacing along the edge of the cliff. Back and forth looking into the deep blackness of the hole before him. For all we knew there was no bottom to that hole. There was no other side either. It was a big dark wide pit for as long as we could see. “I think if we can’t go the same way we were gong then we have to go back…”Almost on cue, the woods disappeared behind us and it looked exactly like the dark pit before us. The ground disappeared beneath us and we fell down. A terrible dread and weightless feeling. Looking down into your dizzy doom before you. I must have passed out because I woke to see a blurry image of my brother moving around a little log cabin. It was warm in the log cabin. I noticed I was lying in a warm bed with a mattres and covers. This brought back sad memories of home to me. I sat up in the bed and fully opened my eyes. It was my brother cleaning some wood shelves and cupboards with a cloth. I watched him work around the small house. It was not lit but the windows were drawn back and light came in. The house had three beds including mine and there was a sink and a stove, oven, and a big pantry. It was just a one-room house. I then remembered what had happened. How was I still alive after that fall? What was that huge pit and why was it there? I couldn’t exactly remember everything and I wanted to know what had exactly happened. Remembering all that made me feel week and I felt tired and sad. I coughed a bit and Fedricky turned slowly around. He smiled a smile of relief, which made me feel better. “Oh good! You’re awake! We thought that something might have gone wrong when we carried you here. You must have passed out or something.” He smiled again a happy smile. “What happened? Where are we? Why aren’t we dead?” I shot the questions a mile a minute. “Relax. Let me explain. It turns out that we were entering a Buffalo herd trap. It was specially made by the magician of the town. Anyway they have an invisible net at the bottom to keep the animals alive when they fall. I was panicked when I saw the ground from a distance but then I saw the net and I knew we would live. The people here know little of the world above and about the people and trade. Nobody has ever been there. We were invited warmly into an old man’s house. You should be thankful.” I let this all sink in. Another world below us? Is that possible? What is this world like? Can they help us get home? “Come outside and see for yourself.” He said reading my thoughts. I’ll help you out.” I swung my legs over the side of the wood bed. I stood up and headed stiffly toward the door. That fall must have made me sore. I saw that my shoes were dripping in front of a fire in the fireplace. Fedricky handed me a pair of moccasins. The old man gave us these. Your shoes are pretty wet. I slipped the moccasins on my cold feet and I stumbled to the wood door. I pushed it open with ease and I stood there gaping in the doorway for what I saw was something I was sure no other man had ever seen before. Now remember the world above us? Yeah it was winter but what I saw was not winter at all. It felt like one of those days where it’s sort of the days between summer and spring. The warm fresh air hit my face. It was not a drippy warm but a gentle breeze. There was a stone path leading away from the house. On either side there was a patch of well-trimmed grass. There were beautiful flowers that were unknown to me too. Big purple flowers that looked like roses were everywhere. There was no gate. It was a very nice open garden to all the public. There was no road just a path going over little swells up to other houses similar to ours but they were scattered everywhere. Eventually the path winded around a big hill and was gone. The sky was a gentle turquoise. Almost like the sky where we lived back at home. There were no trees. And everything was calm. A few people walked around. They looked busy and cheerful. There was a girl about thirteen carrying a milk pail. There were also horses pulling wagons around with little loads and donkeys carrying little bundles. The owners walked easily beside them. Children were playing ball over the small rolling hills. They were laughing and having fun. The only thing I thought was weird about the town was the fact that the only place that was level was the places where the houses were and where the path was. The people were also dressed in pilgrim like clothes. The little girls wore dresses and the boys wore those odd short pants with socks. I saw that some of the people’s clothes were very patched and some people had nice bonnets and real shoes. Nobody looked at us except for a young little girl who I would get to know very well latter. The little girl was only about five to seven and she wore clothes in pretty bad condition. She wore a light red dress with long sleeves. It was a knee length dress and I noticed she wore moccasins very much like ours. She had a tan little face and a small nose. She also had the biggest eyes I had ever seen. They were a light brown, which looked a lot like her hair. She was also a little dirty. She did not smile she just looked at me in a blank way. “My name is Emral. I am the daughter of Thisemus the milkman. The man that you live with now is my grandfather.” She spoke in a pleasant way. Her words were not that welcoming but she said them with a warm feeling. She had a great sense of speech for a little girl. “My name is Memith and this is my brother Fedricky. Please thank your grandfather kindly and treat him well,” I said. I was surprised of how I knew how to speak with such a polite tone because I was usually a person for back talk. And there was something about this girl… “Come on. We need to give you some clothes and I think I should show you around. You shall also meet my father.” She took me by the hand and I motioned for Fedricky to follow. She pulled me along by one hand on the path past many houses. It was just one path until we reached a big wall. She took both of my hands now and she looked me straight in the eye. “Do you promise to tell no one about the town beyond this wall?” She asked me. I nodded and she smiled. It was just a little smile. Then she brushed her hair out of her face and she opened a door. A big cement door. She pushed it hard and it swung open. I only saw a few people at first but then I saw it. A town inside the walls. People in pilgrim outfits were leading pigs around and carrying buckets. Men and women of all ages. There were also nice looking houses with straw roofs like the one we were staying in. But they looked much nicer. I could also see there were little places where some animals were kept. It was very crowded unlike the path. It was a big village inside four big walls. This must be safety reason but safe from whom I was not sure. At the far left corner of the village, there was a big tower with many draped windows. Big gates that led into it. Emral looked up at me. “That’s where the princess lives. She is an orphan and she has never shown her face in public. Only one person knows what she looks like.” “Why? Is she sad about her parents or something?” I asked. Emral gave me an understanding look. “I don’t know I don’t think that anybody does,” she said. I thought her voice had a little sadness in it when she said that. I was really starting to like Emral more. She was kind to me. I found that I really cared about how she felt and what she was saying. “Come on. I think my father might be home now and if we’re lucky my grandfather might be home with him.” Emral said. And she gave me a little smile. We walked a little together when we had gone out of the main town. Then I remembered my brother was still with us. He had been quite the whole time I was talking to Emral. I looked over at him. He was looking down at the ground. Then he looked right at me and gave Emral a nasty look. “I don’t like Emral much,” he whispered. What was he thinking?! Emral was right there and she was the only friend I ever had! With my free hand I pretended to slit my neck. We finally walked up a little slope and we stood in front of a house. It looked terrible! There were no windows. All the glass had fallen out. It was an even smaller house then her grandfather’s house. The springy sun was now up fully in the sky. “Hey you. You need to go home now. I don’t want you coming in,” said Emral suddenly. “You know your way back to my grandfather’s don’t you?” “Hey to YOU! You can’t just kick me out little rat girl!” “Oh yeah? Watch me!” Emral kicked Fedricky right in the stomach. He howled and ran away as soon as he recovered. “Wow. Now that was amazing. Emral dusted off her skirt and opened the door. “I knew your brother didn’t like me. I heard him talk to you and you made that decapitating gesture. Thanks. I like you too.” I stared at Emral. “How did you know that? Your like sicec or something.” “I thought you already knew! In this land the people here can read people’s minds if they want to.” “Wow good thing to know” I thought Emral gave me a weird look. “Oops sorry!” I thought. She led me into the house. It was the exact same model as her grandfather’s. All the exact same furniture. The only difference was that it was a smaller house and it felt more crowded. There were only two beds and the little house felt lonely. Unlike her grandfather’s. “Yes. My mother went down to Hades a long time ago. My father misses her a lot and it always feels lonely,” said Emral sadly reading my thoughts. “I’m sorry that she died,” I said. “You remind me of her you know. I know I was young, but you look like her and you have her presence,” she replied. I knelt down and took her hand. “You look familiar to me too,” I thought and I meant it. She reminded me of MY mother… Somebody tapped Emaral on her shoulder. It was a clean strong hand. She whirled around she was suddenly up in the air. She was in the arms of a strong man with scruffy corn colored hair. He wore a green pilgrim coat, which as missing its buttons and a pair those short black Whatchamacallits. He was laughing and she was squealing. They looked like they were very close and they did not fight much. He was finally calm enough to speak some words. “Hey I missed you! I had a big day at work and I couldn’t wait to come home! I’m so glad you got by okay on your own for breakfast this morning, Well it looks like your still alive,” he said in one long sentence. “I’m glad your home now a lot has happened!” said Emral. I recovered and I started to the door. I thought that Emral might just want to be with her father for a while. Plus I wanted to be a lone for a while. That was how our family used to be. A happy nice julst right family. I wasn’t sure if I was going to see them again. “Wait! Memith I want you to meet my father. If you ever want to get home, he’s the man to talk to,” said Emral still clinging to her father’s neck. Her father carefully put Emral down and gave me a nice welcoming smile. “Hello. It seems Emral has already met you. I’m sorry I did not see you when I came in. So you are stuck from the world above? I may be able to help you.” He said kindly. “ And that’s the whole story,” I said. Emral was sitting on my lap. She was leaning up against me like she just had a bedtime story. I put my hand on her head. I had been telling my story of how we came here to Emral’s father for a long time now. I need to admit that I had started to cry at one point when we fell into the pit and that was when Emral climbed into my lap. Thisemus was now looking very hard at the floor. He seemed troubled. I liked the way his pure blue eyes seemed to sparkle and talk. “ I know a way that you be able to retun to your world but it will not be easy. Get your brother. We need to make a plan.” I ran as fast as I could to the old man’s house. I didn’t want to think. I didn’t know what to think. I guess I was happy and sad and maybe a bit confused. I had gotten very friendly with Emral. She was my best friend. I also wanted to see my parents. Of course I wondered about the plan that Thisemus had made but I didn’t want to think about that either. I was at the front door of the the old man’s house in minutes. I was frazzled and I was totally out of breath. I slammed my fist on the door and Fedricky came to open it. I flopped my hand on his shoulder and after a few big breaths I managed “Thisemus has a plan! Come on!” Fedricky must have been sort of worried that I would be in such a state which that I was in. I would have totally panicked if I had seen him run down and tell me to move. We ran pellnell down to Emral’s house. Once I saw it Fedricky started running faster which was a big mistake. I was at the door first but I didn’t have enough time to stop myself. Unfortunatly the door of the house was open and a ran right in and smacked into the table. I whithered to the floor dazed. Emral went to shut the door right when Fedricky was about to come in. He slammed into the door full force. Thisemus gasped and opened the door quickly and took my knocked out brother by his arms and pulled him into the house. I sank into the wooden chair that I had been sitting in before. Fedricky was lying like a limp sack on Emral’s bed. He had a bandage around his forehead that Emral had cut for him. “Well I’ve made a good plan for you to get home,” declared Thisemus. “ We have one ship that has enough booster power to go up the hole you had fallen through. It is all we can afford. It s the town’s and they have given you permission,” he continued. You shall make it up in only a few days. The ship is made out of our best kindwess tin and you should be safe,” he continued. “ I’d hate to leave you. I mean this place. I don’t know if I want to go…” “You can not stay here. You know that. You would need to go up to your world. Think about your parents,” Thisemus said. “I’d hate to leave you too and I think you know that my father is correct. I stood up. I couldn’t just leave. “Could you visit me if I send the ship back down the hole,” I said hopefully. “You and Emral could visit.” “We can not. Once you enter your world again you will forget this world. You will forget all of us. If we went up to your world to visit you we would be invisible to you,” Thisemus said sadly. No that couldn’t happen I couldn’t forget! I wouldn’t allow myself to. “That isn’t possible,” I said. “I won’t have it, " I said finally. "There is no way. If we did come we would be invisable to you," Emral said. I sat back. Sudennly the door openedwith a creak and the person I saw there I knew before he said anything. "You need to go and we shall assist you. Fedricky knows who I am," he said. There was a silence where I got to examine him. He was wearing the exact same thing as Thisemus and his clothers hung baggy around his thin waist. He had white hair and a croocked nose. He also had cold gray blue eyes that seemed ancient and powerful. "I know who you are,"I said stiffly. "You shall not disobey me,"He said in a rattling tone. He made me want to obey so badly that I finally gave in. "Yes I soppose you are right,"said Fedricky excitedly. "Come the shi is waiting." "No I will not leave!" "It is unwise to speak back to me girl." "Come Memith let's go!" "No where is Emral?!" Fedricky and the old man were dragging me away. Out the door. Away from the house. I kept trying to brake loose of the grip but they wouldn't let go. Over a hill and the house was out of sight. There were trees overhead now. And then I was thrown into a tin can or what felt like one and I closed my eyes and fell asleep while they were still dragging me. The smell of my mother's cooking filled my bedroom. Oh yeah. I needed to go to my grandparent's house today. My head felt odd and heavy. I rolled out of bed and placed my feet on the carpet. I stumbled down the stairs to the good smell. My mother was at the stove making pancakes. I sat on the stool at the kithcen table. "Rise and shine Memith. You slept in today. Fedricky is upstairs getting dressed. You have a long day today," she said in that carefree voice. "I dowanna go," I said in that halfasleep tone. "Now Memith. Grendpop and Grandmom are excpecting you. Please be kind to them," she replied. I goaned and walked back upstairs to go get dressed. I went into my room and was about to take my pants off when something caught my eye. It was a big splotch of dirt on my wrist. I had not gone outside or played in dirt for a while. Why did I feel dirty? Plus I was dirty? I decide to forget it because that was not the most important thing on my mind right now. I had a plane to catch. I dressed in some sweatpants and a sweatshirt and went to go find Fedricky. He was already downstairs and he had already eaten beakfast. He was telling my mom that HE had seen some wierd splotches of dirt on his body too and I said I had too. "That is very strange" he said in that stuck up tone. "Eat breakfast and let's go" he added. We boarded the plane in no time at all. The babies were crying in the backround and I took my seat next to Fedricky at the back of the plane. "I'm hungry,"I declared winning. "It is just a two hour flight you can manage," he replied harshly. The plane started to move and pick up speed. Finally we were in the air and the babies really started to coures in their crying. I laid my head back and turned my head to look out the wndow. I started to dose off watching the land below us knowing that all was well. I then fell asleep. I woke to the most annoying of noises. It was a siren. All over the plane people were getting up and running around. I forgot where we were for a minute and then I remembered. I unbuckled my own seatbelt and grabed Fedreicky. He was already up yelling"We are all going to die! Come on Memith!" Then I noticed that we were plunging into a forest. I mean right into a forest and I yelled as everything went black. I opened my eyes feeling very sore. I felt like I could not possibly move. I was lying on the forest floor covered with leaves. The trees above were bare and lonely. Was I dead? No. I wouldn't feel anything if I was dead but I never had been dead so I didn't know. "Come on Memith your so lazy,"said Fedricky's voice behind me. "Just try getting up," he said inpatiently. I managed to turn over and look at him. He didn't look to bad. Only a couple of scrapes. "Give me a hand will you?" I said. He came over and pulled me up by the shoulders to a sitting position. "So we survived the plane crash,"I said without much inthusiasm. "Yeah and I have some bad and good news. We are the only ones that are alive,"he said in a strained to be normal tone. "Wow. That is impresseve,"I said. This conversation wasn't going anywhere. "We should try to find someone who lives here pretty fast because winter is comeing on and we need a place to stay," he said sniffing the wind like he knew what he was doing. I got up without much touble and we started to walk. Hours passed and finally we came upon a little house with a yard of clearing. It was windowless and there was a fourfoot door. I went up exausted and knoked on the door softly. Nobody came. I knoked harder and still nobody came. I nearly broke down the wood door with the next knock and then three old ladies stood in the doorway squinting at us. "Come in you look lost," said one. They were dressed in raggs and they looked very old. "We take visitors once in a while," siad another. "Come in, come in,"said the last and we didn't need to be asked twice. The three old ladies fed us a dinner of liver of something... After dinner without speeking one motioned for us to go to bed in the back room and we took the hint that they didn't wnt us around that late. The beds were scraatchy and they were basicly boards. "Fedricky I don't like it here," I said in despair. "just wait to morning and you will feel better,"he said back and then he started to snore. I just looked at the cieling. This was terrible. I missed my mom and dad and even my grandparents. I longed to be back home in bed so bad. I closed my eyes. Something started to whisper in my ear. I brushed the whisper away from my ear and I settled back into the scratchy covers. The voice whispered again and I actually said out loud,"Come on! I'm trying to sleep!" It stopped for a second and I decided to listen to what it said... "We will need your help young one. You shall need to leave now. Come down to where we dwell. The ones you do not think you know. You know us in in the deepest part of your mind. We need you. Help us..." I sat up. The voice was a feeling not aa real voice of so it felt. I had a desire to get out of bed and run. And that's what i did. I bolted out of the house. I didn't have any coat on but I wasn't cold. "Your going crazy. Get a grip," I told myself as I ran. But I couldn't stop myself. I was now down the slope covered with leaves. The branches were now snagging me and slowing me down. I ripped them away with unknown power. I was running through the woods not knowing what I was doing. Was I crazy? I didn't think so. I was only running for a couuple of minutes or mabey hours I couldn't tell when I came to a cliff. I knew what I had to do and without much thought I let myself run over the side of the cliff and fall into the darkness. If you have ever fallen out of a building, you will know what it felt like to be falling for a long time. It is most uncomferatable but you can sit up and do anything you can on the ground except you feel sort of noixious. But of course I felt very tiered after my crazed run so I fell asleep in midair. I woke again in a warm and soft bed. I was in a log cabin that was very familiar to me for some odd reason. It was nice and warm because a fire was burning in the other side of the room. And then I saw a bed. It was near the fire. It had old quilts draped over it and it looked like my own bed. But underneath all those blankets was a small lump. I could see light brown hair sticking out of the covers. The lump looked lifeless. I got up and pulled back the covers of my bed. The floor was cold and hard. My head throbed. I must have been running for hours last night. I almost collapsed but I grabbed onto the side of my bed to steady myself. I stumbled over to the bed. I stood there for a minute. I felt a weird sense of power standing over the bed that only came up to my waist. I put my hand out and touched the lump. It was soft but not warm. A dread now spread over me. I pulled the covers back slowly. I didn't know what I was excpecting to find. Something different that's all I can say. I peeled the covers back and there was a little girl. She had a round face and her cheekbones were sticking out dramaticly. Her light brown hair spread out all around her. She was wearing a very old red dress. I could tell she was very fragile. She was also unearthly skinny. The girl stirred. I reached out and touched her shoulder. She slowly woke blinking aukwardly. She looked up at me and a rememberance spread over me. I looked at her and she looked at me. Her eyes were the same color as her hair. She looked very weak. Like she couldn't keep her eyes open. "Who are you?" I managed to whisper. "Memith,"she said in the same tone. "Who are you?" I repeated. "Oh gosh I knew this would happen! You don't remember me! I knew you shouldn't have gone!"she was in hasterics now. She sat up and fell down. "Emral! Don't you remeber me? No. That's impossible! Just leave now!"she said again. I was bewildered. I didn't know this person. Who was she? "Emral!"she said finally. Emral. Just then something happened. It felt my head imploded. Memories from when I was very little came back to me suddenly. Emral. How could I be so stupid?! Emral! I left her. Why did I leave her?! "Go to the princess and stay there till morning. If you be good until the morning and you come back at seven-oklock sharp, then you might be able to save me. It is a magical force that I can not explain,"she said. Then she fell down asleep. Passed out from her long sentace. I ran along the dirt road to the town. I was bumped by many people and I just thought "Get out of my way,"over and over again. I got some pretty weird looks too. But it all made sense now. They wanted me to come down again because they knew that I could help Emral and they needed to tell me that she was about to die. I finally came to the high walls of the town. I was worn out by my run but I couldn't rest. I neede to stay with the princess who never talks to anybody. How was I supposed to stay with her? I pushed open the doors and saw the crowded town. I just stood there looking at everything. Then witihout thinking I ran once again up to the castle tower in the corner of the town. Once I was there standing in front of the door I did a veery stupid thing that I will always remember. I went into the gaurded castle into the darkness. It was all dark inside. I couldn''t see anything for a second. I stumbled forward and hit straight into a wall. I clutched my eye. "Ouch!" I thought. "Who was that said a gruff voice behind me. A hand grabbed me and threw me to the ground. "What are you doing here?" The voice demanded." I just came to see the princess," I said in my little girl voice. "Come on earthling. The princess is expecting you," I was so startled I sat up but I didn't have time to think for the hand grabbed me again and started dragging me up some stairs. I was dragged into a light rool now. I could tell it was the thrown room of the princess because a gold thrown stood at the end of the room. The floors were white marble and everything was trimmed with gold. I then looked up at the man who had taken me. He was darkhaired with blue eyes. He had a thin face and muscular arms and legs. He looked down at me with those blue eyes. "Come on I think you earthlings can walk sometimes,"he said as he picked me up to my feet. Then I noticed that the thrown was preocupied. A slender white figure sat there. She had gold hair and brown eyes. She was dressed in white robes that were almost translucent. No crown was on her head. I walked up to her as nobley as I could and nelt. "Stand up and neal. I hate it when people neal. It makes me feel wierd,"she said quickly. I stood up so fast I fell right down again. "You come for Emral do you not," she said again."Yes. I need to help her," I answered. "I shall not give you any answeres but you may stay here for one night if you wish," she said plainly. I got up. "Thank you your um... madjesty,"I said. "You shall sleep in the servant's room over there," she said pointing. I looked and I only saw a closet. "Oh no. I can't sleep there!" I said. "This must be a mistake!" "Do you want my help?" "Okay fine,"I said giving up as I walked to the closet. I opened it up and lay down on the stone floor. I then fell asleep. I woke with a start and bursted out of the door. What time was it? I wasn't too late was I? "It is now six-thirty in the morning and it would probably take you at least a half-an-hour by the looks of you to run to her house. I sighed and turned around to face the thrown. I was not really liking the princess. "I'm going," said and bolted out the door. I ran down the stairs which were now lighted. I ran out of the castle and through the town. I couldn't wait to see Emral. Out of the town down the dirt road. Passing houses. Finally I came to Emral's house. I stopped at the door. I wanted to be poite. Anyways Emral would now be better so she could answere the door. I knocked. No answere. I knocked again. Notohing. I need to admit I was sort of worried. Of course I knew Emral was not usually wrong about stuff so I decided to just go in and surprise her. I went in. At first I didn't think that anybody was home. I felt very disapointed. But then I notice that the chair at the table was occupied. Emral was sitting there stock still. Her eyes were open but unblinking. Her head was titling to one side. Her brown hair hung all around her. I went up to her not being able to breath. I took her limp hand. It was freezing. I felt her wrist for a pulse. Nothing. She had lied to me. She knew that I couldn't save her. She wanted to die. And she didn't want me to be around her when she did. She knew me too well. I would have been so greif-stricken that I might not be able to function. I thought then about Fedricky up in my own world. Where did he think I went? Does he think I'm dead? I didn't really want to go back to my world and forget everything agian. I liked it in this world. Where was Thisemus? The question struck me hard in the head. Where was he? Why was he not with Emral? I closed Emral's eyes and picked her up. I needed to go back to the princess. She might know. I slung Emral over my shoulder and as I ran out of the house once again I promised myself that this would be my last run between here and the town. Emral slowed me down a little. I still got to the town in no time at all. I kept my head down and walked through the crowded town full of children going to school and adults herding goats. I made my way to the castle. "I'm sorry. You may come in," said that gruff voice. But this time it was softer. "Thanks,"I muttered," "Just so you know my name is Antrothensis and you may talk to me any time you like," "Hey thanks,"I said smiling. And for the first time I noticed that he was actually close to my age. He had a big voice but he could be about fourteen. We walked up the stairs together and he let me into the thrown room. The princess looked up at me. I'm so sorry Memith. I knew she meaned a lot to you. I wanted you to find out for yourself. She was a clever peson to send you to me,"she said. "That's okay I guess. I don't know what I would have done if I saw her die right in front of my own eyes," I said as straight as I could."I have a question though princess. Where did Thisemus go?"I asked. She looked down. She shook her head. "He abondoned her when she got sick. We think that s=he might havve fled into your world,"she said. "Wait that couldn't be. He gaurded her with his life. He loved her," "He must have known that she couldn't live so he just ran away. It was a smart idea to go into your world,"she replied simply. Emral was starting to get heavy in my arms. "I want to go find him. I want to return him back here. Make him pay for what he did," I said getting angry. "As you wish. A ship shall be prepare for you and Antrothinsis. If you have him with you, you will not be able to forget us and your quest. You are going in five miutes," she said ass if she were planning this. Antrothensis entered the thrown room and bowed. "Come Emral. Our ship awaits." Part Two: The Fearsome Adventure of Memith and her Faithful Comapanion Antrothensis We were once agian in broad daylight once we exited the castle. I was feelings almost good. The sun was out. It also felt good to be doing something again. We weaved our way out of the town and down the dirt road to the lading platform. "Are you nervous?" "Not a bit" and I laughed. We both knew that this jourmey could lead to anything dangerous. Our bags were already there at the shuttle when we finally got there. Antrothensis was given regular Earth clothes and I was given new ones. We hauled our trunks up into the shuttle. The shuttle looked like a tin can on the outside but on the inside it looked like a house. There was a kitchen, living room, a bedroom with two beds and a dinning room. I must have looked sartled because Antrothensis smiled. "We take great pride in our shuttles," he said. "I helped make this one," he said proudly. "Very nice," I said as I looked around. There was also a control room that we both went into when we were all ready to leave. It was located at the top of the shuttle and it had an invisible window. There were two seats with cushions. One I could tell was the driver's seat because it had a very big variety of buttons. "I just want you to be here when we take off because if something happens to me, I want you to be able to drive the ship back," he said as he sat down in the driver's seat and staarted flipping switches. I sat down too and whatched what he was doing. The shuttle started to rumble and we started to slowly lift off the ground. Then as fast as you could say Bob we were shooting up so fast you couldn't see a thing out the window. Antrothensis relaxed. "Now we can go downstairs and do whatever we want. Just sitting up here get's very boring," he said as he got up. I was already bored once I was sitting at the kitchen table with Antrotensis. "How long is this ride supposed to be?" I asked. "Oh. Just a month or so. Mabey longer or shorter," he replies without much interest. I sighed. A whole month. Wow. Just to get up into our own world. "I'm going to go get changed into those clothes you people wear,"said Antrothensis excitedly. "I might as well get used to them," he said as he started up the stairs to the bedroom. He came down a short while after and I was very surprised at what I saw. He was wearing a pair of blue jeans, a navy tee-shirt, and a pair of ankle socks. He smiled at me and turned around. "These clothes are SO comferatable! Our clothes back at home are terrible! Your really lucky!" he said. "Yeah. I know. Those clothes didn't look that great to me either," I said and we laughed. Soon enough we started getting tired. It's an odd sensation because there are no windows and all of a sudden you start to feel tired. Antrothensis yawned. "Come on Memith. There's something you need to see," he said. I followed him up to the control room. It was dark outside except for some stars. "The stars sure are pretty," I said in wonder. "Do you think those are stars?!" Antrothensis mused. "No. They are universes. All of them are different. When you fell, you could have landed in any of these. You were lucky you fell in ours. Some universis are bad," he said gazing at them. He stuck his hands in his jean pockets. "Come on. We should get to bed," he said and we headid downstairs. We got ready for bed after I taught Antrothensis how to brush and floss. I got iinto some fleece pajamas that were packed in my suite case. I got under the sheets. Antrothensis came in and sat down on his bed aand pulled back the covers. He got under them and turned off his bed light. "Good night," I said and turned my light off too. Suddenly I haad an urge to ask something. "Antrothensis?" "Yeah?" "Where are your parents?" "They died from the same thing Emral did. I was given up to the princess who treated me with kindness. I was lucky..." he drifted off and soon he was asleep. I kept my eyes open for a while. I felt bad for him. He doesn't really deserve to have no parents. On that thought I fell asleep. I woke in the morning before Antrothensis. I got out of bed and quietly crept down to the living room. I sat on the leather sofa. I pulled my feet uup and rested my head on the armrest. I felt hungery so I went into the kitchen. I poked around until I saw some sort of grain. That gave me an idea. I started making pancakes. They were pretty easy to make even though I had never made them before. I had to light a fire in the pit that was on the counter. Since they didn't haave stoves, they just made a fire and put a pan on it. I put the pancakes on the fire and let them cook. Soon Antrothensis came down rubbing his eyes. His hair was a mess but he looked better. He stretched up and then sniffed the air. "Wazz for brefas?" he said. I knew what he meant. I had that problem too. I couldn't make out real words until about twelve-ocklock. "I'm making pancakes," I said in a cheerful voice. He plopped down into a chair. I set two pancakes in front of him and I set some down for myself. I ate them. He had gobbled them down and had finished. "Memith, you are going to have your first flying lesson today," he said as he got up. That was how every day was. First, I made an "earth" breakfast that Antrothensis ususally enjoyed. Then I would have a lesson on how to run the ship. I learned everything about it and soon enough I was a ship expert. Then we would take a nap until dinner. Antrothensis would make his kind of dinner. They ate mostly grains and beans and barley, but he made some special occasion meals. Then we would look at the universes and go to bed. Then we would set our course in the morning. That was what we did for the whole month. I liked it too. One day when we were up in the control room setting our course for the day, Antrothensis let out a gasp. "I never knew we were so close! Memith! We need to get our landing gear out now!" Fortunatly I knew what to do. I pressed the ten buttons that let out all the gear and I strapped myself in. Antrothensis did the same. Then I saw it through the window. The trees were all a blur as we shot up out of the hole. Then we spun around and crashed headfirst into the ground. As soon as we finally stoped sinking into the new spring muck of the forest, we started to laugh. "We prepared all that time for this landing!" cried Antrothensis through laughs. "Well good thing we're alive," I choked out. "Come on we should get going," he said starting to unbuckle his seatbelt, We got out of the ship with not real trouble. Antrothensis kept on snickering to himself as we were getting out.We got out bags. We were in the woods right next to the cliff. I looked into it and as usual I couldn't see anything. I looked over my shoulder and Antrothensis motioned for me to come along. We went through the woods. It was spring now because I hadn't gone back in time. It was nice to be back on the ground. "So where so we plan on going?" I asked because we hadn't planned on this. "I got some information from the princess of where he might be," he answered. "We think he might be in Canada. That means we have to take a plane as you call them. He is in the mountains in Canada," he looked down. I knew he was not sure and he knew that the princess wasn't sure either. "Well I think I know where the closest airport is. I was tracking our route here when I was on the plane,"I said and Antrothensis relaxed. We then saw the very familiar house that I now saw for my third time. "Be careful. Your brother is still in there and he will make you come with him and forget about me if he sees you," whispered Antrothensis. I nodded. I sort of wanted to see the look on Fedricky's face if I came back though. I pushed that thought out of my mind. We both krept passed the house. There were voices inside and I desperatlly wanted to listen. It was Fedricky's voice. He didn't sound sad! He sounded happy! I raced forward and caught up with Antrothensis. "Hey. I think we're getting close to the plane," I said. "That's good. I'm not realy in shaspe since we haven't been excersizing," he said looking at his legs. It was true. We both looked very skinny and weird. My clothes were lose on me. We kept on trudging forward until we saw the wrecked plane loomign in the sunlight. "Well I'll be scallped!" cried Antrothensis. "How did you survive that?" he said staring at the wrecked jet. It was cut clean through the middle. Dead people still lay around it. Smoking bodies of babies. Adults of all ages lay in heeps and still some in their seats with their faces covered. I looked down. This made me very sad. Death. We were very, very lucky. Antrothensis shook he head and we walked right by the dead bodies without looking. I wanted to forget I saw them. The smell of the burning in my nose. "Please don't lisen to my thoughts for a little while," I said trying to sound regular. He nodded without speaking. I didn't realy have much to think about. I just had the same dreadful picture running throgh my mind. Those dead bodies. The children. "I just don't understand," I said. "Why do people need to die?" "Death is just natural. We can not survive without death," he snickered at his little joke. "All people need to die and if they don't that would cause unatural magic," he said. I understood. Life could not thrive unless there was death. I just needed to heat that from somebody. We were now deep into the woods. Antrothensis was following me now. I kept on looking around to see where we were. I looked around again. "Antrothensis, I hate to say this but we won't be able to get to the airport by tonight. We should stop and rest and we will get there by eight tommarow," I said slumping down next to a tree. "Yeah. I'm all sore. We should stop now," he said flopping onto the forest floor. I made myself a bed of leaves but Antrothensis stopped me. "You know we have an inflatable two person air mattres in my bag.." I got down under the foil covers fo the bed. It was not as comteratable as the real bed but it was better then the ground. Antrothensis was already asleep. He was snoring softly. I closed my eyes and went to sleep. I got up shakilly the next morning. I had forgoten where I was but I soon remembered. Antrothesis was just hoisting his pack on his shoulder when he saw me get up. "Come on Memith. We need to get going and get to the airport. We already have our tickets. Don't ask how just come on!" he siad. I scrambled to my feet and got my pack up. I turned in the right direction and we started a brisk walk. All of a sudden there was a road that led right up to a hidden airport. There were many people runnign all over the parking lot and people were runnign around trying to get their flight. I remebered to vaugley. We went through the double doors and we went through sucurity with ease. No questions were asked. We borded our plane five miutes after we checked our bagage into the plane cargo. Antrothesis was smiling. I knew something was up. "Come on. What are you doing to these poor humans," I said and Antrothesis cracked up. "I thought you'd never notice! I've been just making things go a little quicker with changing the time. Just very short changes. We were hardly even time-travlening," he said through his giggles. I rolled my eyes. Yes he outsmarted me. "Hold your mouth buster we're going to tke off soon!" I could tell Antrothesis was nervouse when the plane started to move. He had never done anything lide this except for the ship ride here which was very different. He clutched the armrests as we lifted off. Then he looked down and looked at me. "This is boring," he said and as he did so he fell asleep. I kept on looking at him. I was sort of lonely without him to talk to. He was the only person I had been with ever since we left his world. I didn't want to go to sleep. I wasn't tired. I looked out the window at the clouds and the blue sky and the ocean half hidden under the clouds. I liked this world. It was my own home. Not somebody elses. I was meant to stay here. This was where I belonged. Antrothensis woke when the waitresses started passing out lunch. It was a drink and either mashed potatos or potato pancakes. I chose the mashed potatos and so did Antrothesis. I had made them on the ship so he knew what they were."Please don't fall asleep on me again. It was boring without you,"I said as he started to lean his head back on the seat. "Oh no. I'm done with sleeping. This ride is taking forever," he said. "I guess your not used to being strapped into a seat for a day. Don't worry. We should be landing soon," I said. A few minutes latter, the pilot said that we were gong to be landing in five minutes and to keep you seatbelts on. That got Antrothensis all hyper and excited. I myself was worn from the trip. It was now almost dinner time. We landed and we were the first ones off the plane. The air was very cold here. People were wearing winter jackets and we had only tee-shirts. There was still snow on the ground. We got sweaters out of our bags and hurried inside the airport to take a taxi to the inn where we would be staying. It took a long time to get to the inn in the taxi.He was a very bad driver and I could tell he was speeding. Antrotthesis had never been in a car before so he was content about asking the driver millions of questions. I just sat there. Soon enough we came to our inn. It was bright red like a barn. "Here you are," said the driver. We took our bags and checked in. It was basicly a barn and we were going to sleep in the hay loft. Great. At least there were beds. Once we were up in our room we decided that we would eat our food that we had packed. We ate dinner quickly but Antrothensis seemed troubled. "I've got it!" Antrothensis suddenly shouted. "Got what?" I wanted to know. "I almost forgot what the princess wanted me to tell you! How could I forget? Memith. Please promise you will not start to go in hesterics when I tell you this but Emral is your sister!" I just gaped at him. My mouth was hanging. I couldn't speak. "My sister?" I gasped. "My siste?" I gasped again. "Emral never did tell you where her mom was did she? She went up to this world. She became your mom.