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The Time Quest
The girls woke up all at
the same time. The
oldest sister, Jennifer, flicked her hazel eyes open, staring around the room.
She flicked a piece of long brown hair over her shoulder and got off the couch
she’d been lying on.
The second oldest, Victoria, opened her blue eyes and looked around. She
blew a strand of long blonde hair out of her face and got off the sitting chair
she’d been sleeping on, coming to join Jennifer in standing.
Katherine, the second youngest, burst
awake, her fierce green eyes staring around at her sisters in disbelief. Lying
on her lap, almost hidden in her piles of black hair, was the Book—the huge,
aqua colored book that contained the secret of Time Travel.
And the youngest, Elizabeth, screamed and
then burst out of her sleeping state, huge gray eyes blinking around and bright
red hair flying as she cried,
“Where is he?! Where he is he?!”
“Relax, Elizabeth,” Jennifer smiled gently. She
shrugged lightly, a wan smile on her face. “We’re home.”
The sisters all looked around the room—she was right. They were home, in
the girls’ own special sitting room upstairs. There was Katherine’s pile of
books, and Jennifer’s table full of scientist goo, and Elizabeth’s pile of
balls and play swords, and Victoria’s wrap lying on the couch.
“We’re actually
back,” breathed Victoria in disbelief. “But remember what the person said?
About the question for the four original Time Travelers?”
Jennifer narrowed her eyes and stared off into
space, clenching her teeth. “I bet my life that that was Father Time.”
“Jolly mean fellow, wasn’t he?” snorted Elizabeth, staring out the
window over the rooftops of London. “I say, wouldn’t the four original Time
Travelers be our parents and grandparents?”
Katherine sent Elizabeth a look. “Snap out of your snooty accent,
Elizabeth. And, yes, I think you may be right.”
“So maybe the book will guide us,” whispered
Victoria. She looked up at her sisters, her eyes bright. “Maybe all we have to
do is touch it again, and the Book with take us to where we need to find the
person. We’ll still have to find the person and bring them to Father Time, of
course, but still…” Victoria started pacing. “The possibilities….”
“Victoria is right,” Jennifer nodded.
“It’s time our Time Quest began.”
Victoria nodded, carefully taking the book from Katherine and placing it
on the floor. She looked up at her sisters. “Grandmother’s obviously not here.
If she was, then she’d be yelling at us to get up. Come on—we’ve got to get
started.”
The other sisters nodded, and they arranged themselves in a circle
around the book. At the same moment, they pressed their four hands together on
the book.
Everything seemed black, at first. Then all of
them could see a dim light, like a tunnel appearing out of the never-ending
darkness. The light seemed to swirl all of them into its light, taking them
from the clutches of the dark.
Then there was a blast of light, and then they saw something that never
before had been seen by the human eye.
They were in space. But they were moving forward, and rapidly. Moving
towards a thing that none of them knew what it was. It looked like an eye, to
them, at least.
There was a blast of light as they drew closer to the thing that looked
like an eye. It had in their first journey, too. And then there they were,
standing on the stone platform that hung weightlessly in space.
The stone was black, just as it had been before. They looked towards
where the door that had led them to Greece had been. Instead of the huge door
that they’d seen, they now saw a wooden door.
Surprisingly the rest of them, Victoria stepped forward first.
“Wait!” cried Jennifer. “What if…”
“Remember last time,” Victoria smiled. “We’ve got to go. We’ve got to
find everybody and bring them back to Father Time.” She shuddered. “Who knows
what will happen if we don’t.”
Victoria turned to the door, reached out, and touched
it. Light sprayed out and blinded them.
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