Inside the room was dusty but strangely clean. There were strange objects all around the room. From shells, mirrors, and bottles of different colored liquids. Candles were lit all around the room, and hundreds of dream catchers hung from the ceiling. Everything was placed as if it had a purpose for being there. It was what my mother liked to call, organized chaos.
"So Elizabeth. What troubles your mind?" The old lady sat at the small wooden table, which was filled with cloth and gemstones. I sat at the wooden seat opposite her. "How do you know my -" I spoke but the old lady cut me off.
"I'm Persephone, and I don't know why I know you're name. I just get told things without sometimes knowing why, but I was supposed to meet you and today is the day fate has aligned."
I smiled as I looked down at my hands. On the table is drawn on a piece of paper in dark pencil, was the symbol. I gasped and looked at Persephone. "You're familiar with this symbol?" She asked curiously. I shook my head.
"What does it mean?" I asked my voice cracking softly.
"Well now that depends on who you ask," she said sitting back in her chair. "Some believe it means that you are on the right path. That you are discovering your true destiny." She said, as her eyes stared intensely at me. As if she was looking into my soul.
"What do you believe?" I asked. Persephone pulled a cigarette out from her pocket and lit it quickly. She placed it into her mouth and exhaled a cloud of black smoke."Ahh- I think it's a key of some sort. I believe it opens the door from our world to another." She tapped the cigarette ash into a shell bowl.
"What other world?" I asked bewildered. Persephone smiled.
"Now that's a very good question." She took another puff and released a smaller cloud into the air. "You see there are hundreds of other worlds. More than you could ever dream of but this symbol," She said pointing at the piece of paper. "Opens the door to what I believe is the fey realm," She looked me slowly and I tried not to laugh.
"Like fairyland?" I said slowly.
Persephone shook her head.
"Don't be silly. That is only humans way of trying to understand what they don't know."
Persephone picked up a brown book from the table and turned it to a page. She placed the book on the table in front of me. There was a drawing of a gate, that at first look seemed beautiful. But the more I looked I could see that the flowers looked... deadly.
"You see my dear. The world you used to dream about when you were young. Now that world isn't real. Fairyland isn't real. However this," she said pointing at the drawing. "This place is real and there is nothing pretty about it."
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