Bridge to Terabithia 4: Unearthing Secrets (2023)

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[If Nigel isn't there, Calvin, Sarah and Conrad explores the left side of the left side of the mansion while Leslie, Jess, and Kelly explores the other site. Whoever finds Nigel first would whistle and go back to the guest bedroom. They see some double oak doors, so probably they are at the reception hall of the mansion. The hall is tiled in black and white, lined with mahogany, with an ornate marble grand staircase, where Henry Alson had fallen and died, flowing down from the upper floor like a frozen waterfall with several painting of landscapes and animals on the walls.]

Leslie: Nigel's scream earlier wasn't normal. Something has happened to him. I'm sure he saw something.

Kelly: I needed to look upon where he is. His scream is not normal. You were right, Leslie.

Leslie: I was. The bathroom Nigel is in should be somewhere in this hall.

Jess: Then we should look for him fast.

[He opens a door, looking around the room. It's nothing. Leslie gasps.]

Leslie: Jess, look at that!

[He and Kelly follows her inside and he hands her the backpack. They go to the side and gaze at the realistic painting of the tree house in the forest. But it looked familiar. Then it hits him like a blinding light.]

Jess: Is that...?

Leslie: The castle of Terabithia.

Kelly: I remember that.

Leslie: Well, what was it then?

[She gets a picture frame on a mahogany study table with many school books on it below the painting, and he aims the flashlight on the frame The man at the middle of the picture is in hid  mid-fifties, bald with a brown beard. The woman at his left, who seemed to be in her forties, had long black hair, and at the other side was a guy in his twenties with a birthmark on his left hand. They are grinning at the camera all perfect familied did.]

Jess: That's Henry Alson. The man who died here seven years ago. Behind him are his wife, Trina, and son, Dimitri.

Leslie: That Dimitri is awesome. I wonder how he and his mom are doing now in New York. The piece earlier was sorrowful, don't you think so, Jess? [pause] You get a sense of a bitter-sweet memory, or a tragedy. It's wallowing in self-pity or blubbering internally over some lost love.

[Jess notices something on the far side of the table.]

Jess: Hey, there's another picture frame.

[He gets it and they saw a younger Dimitri and a curly blonde-haired girl, grinning widely together for the camera while doing the peace sign, the tree house behind the. He opens the frame behind. There is a message written at the back of the picture.]

["Dimitri Alson and Veronica Hanley. Best of friends since November 6, 1994 until forever."]

Kelly: Is this from the '90s?

Leslie: Yeah. It sure is.

Jess: This must be Dimitri's bedroom.

Leslie: They're like us, Jess. I wonder why they lust left the pictures and the painting her though. Does this mean they're the first owners of the tree house?

Jess: I believe so. There's a signature at the lower right: Bruno. This Bruno person sure is amazing and talented. I mean, look at how detailed and realistic the painting is.

Leslie: You're right. But I'm sure you could do better than that, Jess.

Kelly: The other Bruno. That's interesting. When he was very talented, he shows what they made of.