{ELEMENTISTS OF WILLOW FOREST BOOK IV} The Day of Death

I Like Laser Death Rays

12:  I Like Laser Death Rays

 

 

 

I woke up as dawn broke.  Birds were singing, announcing the arrival of a new day.  The golden sun was slowly creeping upwards, peeping through the silhouettes of the tre-

Wait.  Birds.  Birds were singing.  There were actually some birds in the park.

I stood up, and climbed further up the oak tree, saying, "Hey!  It's me.  Olivia.  Descendant of Hephzibah."

A pigeon cocked its head.

"I was wondering if you could help me."  I said.  "I don't have anywhere to go, or any money.  Do you have any suggestions?"

The pigeon presumably didn't.  "Huh.  Bummer.  Well, your problem, not mine!"  It flapped off, out of the tree.

I sighed, and climbed a bit higher, until I found another pigeon.  This one was sitting on her nest.

"I'm a descendant of Hephzibah."  I started.  "And I was wondering if-"

"Hephzibah!"  The bird cawed.  "Hephzibah!"

"Yes, I'm a descendant of Hephzibah.  Now-"

"Hephzibah!"  She repeated.  "Hephzibah!"

Oh.  Perhaps she meant the medallion.  "That's one of the problems.  I've got her medallion.  Look, I'm wearing it.  But I'm not sure how to get it to talk."

"Hephzibah!  Hephzibah!  Hephzibah!"

Other birds around the park joined the cry.  "Hephzibah!  Hephzibah!"  Birds appeared from the hedgerow, and from down the road, and people's roofs.  "Hephzibah!  Hephzibah!  Hephzibah!"  Soon, there were dozens and dozens of bids, all flying around the tree I was in, all shouting, "Hephzibah!"

The medallion began to feel warm.  Then it got hotter and hotter, until it burned like fire.

"Hephzibah!  Hephzibah!"

The heat had become almost unbearable.  It was so hot, it was cold.  I delved under my hoodie and brought it off my neck, and held it in front of me, but it became too hot for me to hold all together, do I hung it on a small branch in front of me.

"Hephzibah!  Hephzibah!"

Squirrels, and insects, and rats, and foxes, and mice started appearing on the ground in front of the tree.  More and more animals came, and began to circle the tree along with the birds.