Lost Realms

10. Revelation

Julie

What would you do if one minute you were free-falling from the sky while screaming your head off and the very next moment get caught in an actual Griffin's claws? Like a real-life half lion, half eagle?

Freak out? Cause that was literally my reaction.

Once we were safely on the ground and I got over the fact that I didn't just fall a hundred feet to the ground. I slowly got up. My back was surprising...fine. I adjusted my specs which by some miracle seemed to have survived in this crazy ride to the ground I looked around.

You're just not used to it

Who are you again? And why are you in my head?

You'll soon find out

Well, we didn't fall to our deaths as we had assumed. And to be honest Dan had been screaming more than I was.

I looked around myself. We were actually in Orin. It wasn't a dream anymore. I wasn't going to wake up again and brush it all away. This was a reality.

It was exactly like I had seen it in my dream. I'm not sure if it was even a dream anymore. Big golden trees reaching the clouds. A huge castle-like structure towering before me. I looked up to see that three Griffins were circling the sky as if catching people falling from the sky was completely normal.

It is actually.

Who are you?

Your subconscious.

Really?

Nope.

Hey?

Yes?

Can you please be quiet?

Anything you want.

Beside me, Dan was just looking spellbound. As if he couldn't believe where he was seeing. I couldn't blame him. This is a magnificent place.

A man I just noticed had got down the Griffin. He was walking towards us. I noticed he had a spear in one hand. A hard look on his face. He had Dark hair and lines across his face and he towered over us both and he looked kind of familiar

"Who are you and how did you come here?"

Well so much for a hello.

Dan tried to say something but he was at a loss of words.

Tell him about your uncle

"Our uncle...Akinli Starkworth. He brought us here."

His eyes widened. He lowered his spear. His hands trembling slightly and looked at us as if we were mad "Impossible! He vanished 17 years ago!"

"If you don't believe us you'll just have to wait for him to arrive with Celine and Edward."

Now he looked as if I had just punched him
"Celine? She's alive?" He then proceeded to remove something from his pocket. A locket, similar to Akinli's. He twisted the dials and something popped up. No someone. A hologram and I had a feeling I'd seen this person somewhere...

In a dream perhaps?

The grandmaster!

Bingo!

You know you're not so bad if we ignore the sarcasm.

Well someones gotta be the interesting one around