SUMMER'S RAIN

CHAPTER 54

CHAPTER 54

I look at Lisa, and she is giving me the same knowing look. Neither one of us can understand how this human girl could even start to be able to feel us. Humans aren’t supposed to be able to feel a Keeper.

“Rachel I’m sorry about your brother. It’s true that a Keeper can enter the fairy realm, if they have the right incantation to open the door but, by what I’ve read the fairies are always changing the glamour to make sure that never happens. I don’t think a Keeper or anything else has ever gotten in the fairy realm unless the fairies take them there.”

“I have the incantation” Rachel said as she pulls a piece of paper out of her pocket. “I hid behind a tree. The fairy didn’t know I was there. I wrote down every word he said, so unless they have changed the spell by now this will work. All I need you to do is open the door. I’ll take it from there.”

“Look there’s no way we can open a door and just let you walk through it.  It's not that simple. First off, even if it’s possible that incantation is still good, and we're able to open the door. A Keeper will have to go in with you in order to open the door for you to get back out. Secondly, we have no idea what the Fairy World is like. Thirdly, don’t you think as soon as you were spotted by the fairies, they would change the glamour opening the door, leaving you or us without a way out?” I say to the girl.

“Please help me my brother is all I have. It's my fault he’s in this mess, and I have to get him out.” Rachel said as tears running down her face.

“May I see the paper” I asked, holding my hand out? Rachel stood up walked over and held out the piece of paper, she had written the incantation on. I take the paper unfold it and start reading it to myself. I didn’t want to take the chance of reading it out loud in case it still worked.

“This is said to the fairies to the east and to the west open thy door I seek, and I will give you parse.
This is said to the fairies to the north and to the south hold, thy door and let me pass. This is said to the fairies of our realm protect our door and our land.”

I read the incantation a couple of times not believing such simple words could open a door to a whole different world. Looking up at Lisa, and Rachel, I decide I will help her. “I will help you, but you’re going to have to give us a couple of days to work out a few plains and let Lisa have time to get feeling better.”
“Thank you” Rachel said still crying.

After talking with Rachel for a while, we found out that her, and her brother Adam lives in an apartment over one of the shops on the boardwalk. They had been in and out of foster homes their entire lives and had never met their parents. Then a couple of years ago they ran away and came here. Her brother had managed to get a job on one of the ship yards, and Rachel works in a souvenir shop. She will be turning eighteen in a couple of months, and her brother will be turning nineteen the week after her birthday. They would be the same age for one week. I tell Rachel she can stay with us until we go to the Fairy Realm and bring her brother home. At some point Lisa had fallen back asleep while Rachel and I had been talking.

I went to the kitchen after helping Lisa back to bed. I blink in all the ingredients needed to make homemade chicken noodle soup. Rachel comes in the kitchen and tells me she needs to go back to her apartment to get a few things, and she will be back. I tell her to be careful and not to talk to anyone, and by that I meant fairies. Rachel left, and I continue preparing Lisa’s soup and wondering how this girl could have known Lisa, and I was Keepers. That should have been impossible.