Kaija knew that it’s all her imagination. She tried to believe that it was so.
Teller was following her. She couldn’t see him while he was invisible. She only could feel someone’s watching her.
Suddenly she fainted.
– Kaija! – Teller ran to her and caught her before she fell on the ice.
‘This level is not for us. It’s not for Alive ones. We should go. Just hold me tight… Kaija. Don’t fade away. Do you hear me? Kaija!’
‘Yes.. but I’m not sure that.. I’ll feel better from being here.. Take me over there. Teller.. I.. I…’
He walked faster holding her tight. They flew over the icelake, across the field covered with purple-blue carpet of snow flowers. He embraced her whispering something into her ear.
Words of comfort made her breathe. Fullmoon level was a very strange place and it was better not to faint there.
You never should stay there for a long time. None knew anything special about this place, but many legends were flowing over it.
Someone told that there live some creatures that’re feeding with flesh of the new-comers, another ones said that anyone who comes there disappear in Silence.
But there was no liars or truth-tellers. None could know anything clear about it because not everyone could come back.
Teller saw the Moongates and walked through them. When he stepped on the white snow of Wonderland the portal behind his back closed.
He put her on the path of dead grass and whispered something to her. She didn’t move.
– Open your eyes, Kaija.. please. Kaija.. – whispered he. Slowly he touched her cheek. She was getting colder pretty fast.
– Not good… – sighed he cutting his wrist. He took some blood and gave it to her with a warm gentle kiss.
It should help. He was much stronger than her and his blood would give her some power to wake up.
He felt that she answered the kiss and then she opened her eyes.
– I won’t go back. That’s a cursed place. We shouldn’t go there.. They are going mad about it. It’s their world. Not ours. – told she looking in his eyes.
– Whose world? – asked he being totally confused.
– Ghosts of the past ages from the far worlds. We shouldn’t disturb them any longer. They asked me..
– Have you seen anyone there? – he was amazed.
– Yes. – her voice was calm and full of confidence.
‘She is getting stronger… but how? It’s weird… she is weakly standing on the third grade… how.. She is the One. The greatest… but how…’
– I saw a child there. A little boy. He called me and asked to help. He was lost in the forest. I took him and we went ahead, right to the frozen lake. When I turned around he disappeared… and.. I found this in my hand. He left it for me, I assume. – told she and gave him a necklace with a tiny crystal heart. – It should protect All from the End.
– Oh, hmm… I never saw it. I thought it’s just a legend, a beautiful fairytale… You saw Kile. He was the first Other who reached our world. It’s a great honour to get this talisman from him. You should keep it. Never take it off. – he slowly put it on her neck and locked. Her neck was white like snow in first sun rays of winter morn. Teller felt her warmth, sweet scent of her hair…
For the first time he lost control. For the first time through long long years.
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