Tuesday, January 27, 2015

FADING HEART: Chapter Fourteen, The Great Basin



Chapter Fourteen: The Great Basin
(Mid-Chapter: Reilly and Lottie have just gone through another portal.)

     “I am called Sitara,” said the fairy. Her translucent wings whirred like a hummingbird in front of Reilly. “You are in Jolkavatar.”
     Reilly pushed his Stellagoggles further up on his nose and tucked the bendable rims tightly around his ears. “Then we are near Jolka?” he asked.
     “Jolkavatar is found deep within Jolka,” Sitara replied.
     “Then we are also near Tir Na Nog!”
     “Tir Na Nog is always near. It, too, is within.”
     Reilly sighed, frustrated because the portals always provided few answers and always more questions.
     “Follow me,” Sitara said. Her black pixie hair shimmered against her iridescent wings, and her flowing dress trailed behind her in a blur of white light. “The Fairies of the great Star King and Star Queen await your arrival.”
     Again Reilly thought about the portals he’d been through. They all started to blend together. Although he knew each one was as real as the next, sometimes he couldn’t distinguish one from the other. It was as if all of his barely-sixteen years of existence melded together in a recurring, familiar dream … that recently felt more like a nightmare.

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