Jeanne - Book 1- The Oracle

Chapter 4

Letters to other dimensions

Okay, she needed to think straight right now. Magic didn't exist. There was only one dimension. Hér dimension. Was she there or wasn't she?

Her eyes widened and something inside her snapped. This wasn't right, was the only thing she could think. These people... Who were they? Where had they brought her?

She needed to go. These people were mad! Better not having any human contact than being with them!

Or was she dreaming? Please let this be a dream. She closed her eyes and after a few seconds opened them again. She thought very hard about what she understood was a normal bedroom (how could it be that she knew that kind of stuff but didn't know her own age?) but she knew that it wouldn't work. Maybe she should listen to the man's explanation. Maybe he could make something normal out of the nonsense here.

She looked up. Neither Rob or Noor both didn't seemed to have noticed her inner panic.

The drawing on the screen now had changed. Rob had zoomed in on the circle he had been pointing at. Now, clearly visible, she saw trees, a lake, a river... A path leading to a couple of buildings, probably intended to be a city. And a little wooden house somewhere near the middle.

'That's your house', she stated.

'Thanks, but I already knew that. Now, see this little cross right here?' He pointed with the stick at a little cross something beside the house, next to the trees. 'This is where I planned you to be once you came. It was a little bit more to the south, but I was close. Since we didn't knew when you were going to come - if you were going to come - we weren't there to pick you up. If the situation had been different...'

'I would still have my memory'

Rob looked at her with an expression she didn't understand. Was it... Confusement?

'Yes. You would still have your memory.

See, the room we were in just now- it's called The Technical Room. Behind the curtain stand two different machines, but both are incredibly important. One is still a secret. The other one's a portal, which can make humans, animals and other things travel to other dimensions'

Rob put the stick away and sat back at the table. He looked her in the eyes. 'I, and many others before me, have worked years, ages, to completely build it, with our goal to travel to other dimensions than ours. More than a thousand years, people tried to go to different world's then our own. A thousand years. That's how long this idea has invaded our minds. A secret fellowship called The Fighters of Light, founded by our ancestor, decided to take matter in own hands and as long as their life's stretched worked on the machine standing in The Room next to us right now'

'Here? But how can that be? I have seen noboy else here except you two'

Rob gave her that strange look again and suddenly she knew what it was: Guilt. 'Yes. The end of almost all life in the Light-World. A tragedy that happened thirty-something years ago caused almost everybody who lived here to die. Everybody, but me and Noor. Since the last leader of the fellowship was none other than our grandfather, I was now the true leader of The Fighters. But since everybody else hadn't survived, it was only us two. I, I mean, we have worked on the machine for ten years now, and we would have worked on it until our lifes would have come to an end'

'And did it work?' She still didn't knew if she believed him, but she wanted to listen. The man didn't look like someone who would lie.

Rob nodded slowly. 'Yes. A few months ago, we were finally able to make a safe portal, that could make an opening going from this world to any other one you want. And that was when we send the letters'