LABYRINTH: Birds Fly Over The Rainbow

Chapter 2

The wall disappeared and she cried out and fell through on her hands and knees. Sarah stood up and was dusting herself off. It was a pitch black creepy dark dank musty cave with cobwebs. She spun around to see nothing but a stone wall. She started feeling for a spot in the wall for the keyhole and it was not there on this side. She placed her hand upon the stone wall and it felt like real and solid stone. She finally realized that she fell through a wall or portal of some type and couldn't get back. She had her flashlight and was holding it up looking for an exit. 

She slowly crept through the cave and it was humid on this side of the wall where you could hear drips of water only. She couldn't believe she was really in the Underground. What she realized is that the information she had discovered had led her to this place and it was very odd. She wasn't sure if there was a portal that would really work or not. Seems it did, because she believed. It was still so unreal. She was amazed, excited and a bit scared.

Suddenly, she began looking around and tripped hard over a very heavy brick or rock. She got up dusting off again and was looking down at a big pot. It was covered in a couple of inches or so in layers of dirt and dust. Sarah wiped it off with her gloved hand and it was filled with gold coins. She thought, 'This is just too crazy lucky.' 

She pulled a few large gallon size plastic zip bags she carried with her from her backpack and stuffed them with as many coins as she could fit into each one, minus the dirt, if possible. She had five bags full when she was done. It was heavy. She put them in her shoulder bag which made it much much heavier, like fifty pounds or more. She filled up a couple pockets of her cargo pants with coins too, but tight enough so it wouldn't jingle. She thought, 'Perhaps, maybe the leprechaun died. After all, the portal from Newgrange, Dagda's Mound home in Ireland, was over 5,200 years old. It was from the time that the Tuatha De Danann were in Ireland.'

She said out loud, "Boy, I 'wish' the weight of my bags I'm carrying were lighter." The magic swirled out made it so. The burden was lessened. Sarah thought, 'How the hell did that happen? Oh, shit! I made a wish and it frickin' worked! I haven't said a wish out loud since I was here last.' 

She had used her savings to convert what she had into silver and gold chain jewelry, which she had a lot of, in her duffle bag. Combined with the pot of gold on her shoulder tote now, she was financially ok, but not secure. If she got attacked by multiple people at once it could be bad.

She found an opening that was overgrown a lot and she had to cut through it to get outside. She started hacking and sawing through at least five feet of scrub and vines with her hunting knife. She could start to see it was a wooded forest and the trees nestled up to the cave front. 'No wonder,' she thought, 'there was no light because of the trees blocking it.' She had to skinny squeeze between two very large old trees growing in front of the entrance which was a feat. She had to take off her bags and coats and push them through to the other side of the trees to get through. It was almost like the forest was trying to hide the cave entrance forever. Once she had her gear back on, the woods felt like a forest primeval and went on forever. It was seriously dense and dark there with heavy moss growing on trees and green and misty haze settled in. Sarah was lost no matter what way she went. 

She walked out into the thick forest with crickets chirping at night. She walked around looking for a water source. She kept her flashlight on and found a trail along a stream. It was the change to fall just like in her world. It was night time, so it seemed.

She had no idea where she was. She set up a camp with her tent against a grouping of trees and was foraging for wood and rocks to make a fire in the dark with her flashlight. When she finally settled down, she had a loaf of baguette bread she had in her backpack of spices and dried food stuff.