Magic? (Book 1 of The Aluna Search) (completed)

Chapter 12

A/N

hey guys I really liked writing this chapter, so much details which I still need to cover, if you have any questions about the explanation, I will explain, but I can't spoil the story for later on so sorry if I can't answer your questions (if you have some) because I know it's a bit confusing. I am confusing myself by what I just typed... please enjoy!

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Books lined all sides of the room she was standing in, though you couldn’t call it a room, more like a mass amount of enclosed space. The walls looked as tall as city buildings all reaching for the sky. There were longs shelves behind her as well; so long she could not see the end just dimness, with a touch of candle light.

Books floated down from shelves or from the dimness behind her, all hurrying to the rooms in front of her. In lina’s opinion the rooms looked like prison cells, all on top of one another, strange shadows of figures sat, and stood on the stained yellow glass, which completed the ‘rooms’. The glass was textured and Lina was unable to see the figures behind it but merely there shadows which moved like puppet shows.

In some rooms there were short beings which were smaller than the table’s shadow, in others there were taller figures, Lina guessed this was because of distance to lighting but she knew that could not be true. In other rooms were balls floating in mid-air, Lina guessed these were fairies, in one room there were deformed figure with backwards bending knees and hollow backs.

‘Don’t you know It’s rude to stare?’ a voice said in her head, as she was watching the hollowed back figure, and she lowered her eyes to the ground. The whole place was silent, with only a slight murmur from the rooms.

She felt a hand grab hers and as she was about to yelp she saw Sirge walking in front over her his finger pressed against his lips. He held a key in between his fingers and waggled it.  She realised it was Sirge holding her hand and let him lead her to the rooms. There were spiralling stair cases which lead to the very top, at each level there was an exit and a long platform to get to the room.  Lina looked at the number of the key, 0345, which she guessed meant level three room 45, which made her wonder how many rooms there really were.

As they walked along the platform to find their room, Lina glanced down below, and felt her stomach jump because she had just realised there was no railing to grab if you did fall. They finally arrived at the room. It had the same stained yellow textured glass as the rest of the uniform rooms. On the brown door was a rusty silver coloured 45. Sirge slotted the key in and turned the lock. She walked into the room to see it too had a mini bookshelf. It had a few books on the self otherwise it was bare lightwoods shelf. The books were old bound books which looked like they would crumble in her hands.

“So” Lina said turning round once she heard the door click shut, “time for your backstory.”

“No”

“Come on I told you mine!” Lina pleaded, she was curious of Sirge and where he had come from.

“I never asked to hear it” Sirge said bluntly.

“Just a little”

“Fine” he said rolling his eyes, “my name is Sirge, I am seventeen turning eighteen this year, and I come from the fire kingdom in the magi realm.”

“You told me three things about yourself, one which I knew, one which I guessed, and one which I have never heard of before.” From the look Lina got she guessed she was going to squeeze no more out of him.

“So, I meant to help you find someone.” Lina couldn’t bear to say the name; it had been nagging her all day.

“Yes, Aluna of the water kingdom.” Sirge corrected