the girls named Gael craws out of the barrel and looks at her father, Rhince. He looked at her for a second before moving to hug her.
Drinian comes walking up to Gael, looking stern.
'Looks like we have an extra crew member.' He hands her the orange he'd caught.
'Welcome aboard.' I smile at the small girl.
'Your Majesty.' the girl bowed.
'Call me Alexa.'
'Come on', Tavros calls out, 'Come on, look lively. Back to work.'
I walks to my room, Gael following me closely. I look in my closet looking for something the young girl could wear.
Peter, Caspian and Drinian and I stand atop the stairs. Caspian is looking through a small telescope at the island we had seen.
'It looks uninhabited', Caspian confirms, 'But if the lords followed the mist east, they would have stopped here.'
'Could be a trap', Drinian opts.
'Or it could hold some answers.' Peter adds.
'Caspian?' I say in way of asking for his decision.
'We'll spend the night on shore', he states, 'Scour the island in the morning.'
'Aye, your Majesty', Drinian obeys
We all lay on shore, asleep around a dying out fire. Peter always slept really deep, only one arm lays around me, loosely. And my head is resting on his chest as does my hand.
Unfortunately, he doesn't notices when I am being lifted up and carried away by something invisible. I had gotten scared awake and got shoved through bushes while still hanging in the middle of the air. Pushing though the last pair of bushes, I am thrown on the ground in what looks like a garden. I pull out my sword but it's immediately hit out of my hands, and I am not able to get it back due to an invisible wall made by my kidnappers. I can't see who they are, but I can see the cold breaths the kidnappers take floating high above me.
'There is no escape.' -'Well put.' - 'Scary.' - 'Yeah.'
'What are you' I ask.
'We are terrifying invisible beasts', one of them says, 'If you could see us, you would be really intimidated. you forgot to mention that we are very large.'
'Well, what do you want?' I question as I get up from sitting on the grass.
'You', the kidnappers say, 'You'll do what we ask.' - 'She will.' - 'Very clear.' - 'Well put.'
'Yeah. Or what?' I taunt.
'Or death.' - 'Death?' - 'Death?'- 'Death?' - 'Death.' - 'Death.' - 'Death.'
' Well, I wouldn't be much use to you dead, would I?' I remark.
'I hadn't thought of that', it admits.
'No, you hadn't. Fair point.' - 'All right, then we'll just kill your friends.' - 'Ooh.' - 'Good idea.'
'What do you want with me?'
'You will enter the house... of The Oppressor.' they say dramatically.
I am pushed in the back lightly in the direction of a large plain of grass where there are no bushes.
'What house?'
'This one.'
Suddenly an invisible door opens, I can now see the inside of a Victorian house.'
'Upstairs, you'll find The Book of Incantations', they instructed, 'Recite the spell that makes the unseen seen.' - 'Well put, Chief. Well put.' - 'Yeah.' - 'Yeah.'
I step in front of the door, intrigued that there is nothing visible behind the door.
'Well, go on', they rush, 'We haven't got all day. Remember what will happen to your friends. You've been warned.' - 'Yeah.' - 'Yeah.' - 'Yeah.' - 'Right.' - 'Right.' - 'Yeah.'
I turn back to the voices: 'Why don't you do it yourselves?'
'We can't read.' - 'Can't write either, as a matter of fact.' - 'Or add.' - 'Yeah.'
'Why didn't you just say so?' I breath.
'Beware The Oppressor,' they warn, 'He's very oppressive.' - '"What makes the unseen seen," got it?' - 'Don't forget.' - 'Don't forget that.' - 'Yeah.'
I step inside and the doors close behind me.
I walk through a darkened hallway and into what looked like a library. On a stand laid a big book. When I walked up to it, it didn't have a title on it, it just has a mass of letters sprawled across the front cover. I tried to open the lock, but it wouldn't budge. Then I suddenly notices 2 angels on the stand who seemed to float above the corners of the book, they seemed to blow wind onto the book. I blow on the front cover of the book, causing dust to fly up and the wild letters on the cover to form into words.
'the book of incantations' it reads, now I was able to open the book, I flip it open and scans the pages, I reach two mostly black pages with one spell written on it in graceful gold letters
I read: "With these words your tongue must sew, For all around there to be snow"
I look at the next page, which is completely black, suddenly a single flake of snow falls down onto it, more follow, soon the entire room is filled in a layer of snow, I smile.
I blow the layer of snow from the papers of the book and suddenly the book skips many pages forward, the way a normal book would in strong wind, I stop it by slamming her hand between 2 pages. Suddenly the room seems darker, whispers fill the room. When they stop I turn back to the pages in front of me, a spell on the left, a portrait of a beautiful woman on the right.
I read: "An infallible spell To make you she, The beauty you've always wanted to be"
With that the image of the woman began to disappear, leaving what looked like a mirror, I look into it but don't see myself, I see susan.
'Susan, what's going... ...on?' The image I thought was Susan followed me like a reflection in a mirror would.
'I'm beautiful', I say astonished.
I walk away from the book to see my reflection in a real mirror, seeing my ordinary self, I then turns back to look at my more beautiful self again, but the mirror is already starting to fade, the original portrait returning.
'No, wait! "Make me she, whom I'd agree..."'
I carefully rip out the page with the portrait, a loud roar erupts from the book, pages go flying like they would in the wind again.
'alexa! Alexa', a voice echoes through the room
'Aslan? Aslan?'
The pages slowly stop moving, I put the page under my shirt and belt.
Then I see: '"A spell to make the unseen seen."' and begin to read:
"Like the 'p' in psychology
The 'h' in psychiatry
Invisible ink and the truth in theology.
Just like the sun at the end of the day, will be back in the morrow,
The spell is complete
Now all is visible"'
A ladder on wheels starts to move, an invisible man drops a book on the ground before picking up another, he turns around and now is visible again, he looks up from his book and looks at me surprised.
