NINE TIME MACHINES: Do you want to undo your entire life on planet earth?

CHAPTER 97: To take them to high places

Kat left Mary behind and found the others waiting in the middle of the shrinking forest as planned. They stood inside the triangle of the three tallest cedar trees; Xaxu in her sea of white, accompanied by all the colours of the rainbow that made up Kat's seven other sisters.

"Kat," said Xaxu, her tone a sexy huskiness. "Where were you? I called twice."

"Let's not pretend," Fantum barked. "We all know she dropped that veil of hers again."

"Let Kat answer for once without you barging in."

"It was an accident," Kat offered. "A nosy human saw me. I had to go dark to touch him."

"Strange," Xaxu replied. "Everyone knows you're more careful than that."

"She's lying!" Fantum interrupted again. "Can't you tell?"

"Enough already!" Xaxu's onyx black eyes pulsated in her oval-shaped face. "It's time. Let's go back for our meeting."

Everyone fell silent. Already in position, they waited for Kat to join. She stepped forward to complete the equilateral triangle, arms at her side and head bowed. Xaxu extended her left arm and uttered the magic words. "Kishar. Nammu. Nin." Three golden lines engraved the triangle at their feet; then Xaxu transformed into a stick of white light and was pulled to the middle of the witches. Qira extended her left arm and did the same. Her stick of red light stood beside Xaxu's; then Raea's orange, Fejj's yellow, Suke's green, Jarka's blue, Mira's indigo and Fantum's violet.

Now it was Kat's turn. She uttered her personal secret word in her mind then wrapped her shadowy self around them until their energies fused to flip the triangle. Finally, Kat drove everyone into the ground, and the earth sealed up over them as though nothing had happened. When they appeared again, everyone was inside the pitch darkness of the Feel Room – a combination of nine etched triangles, the thrones that formed a circle, all surrounded by two golden rings, with another larger etched triangle at the centre. Kat unwrapped herself and stood inside the larger triangle, head bowed, in silence. Xaxu's triangle, at the north of the circle, sucked her white stick of energy towards it. The others followed suit. As usual, Kat was the last to take position on her throne.