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“Let me try something,” Hope says stepping forward to place her hands on the wall. I immediately step closer in case something happens; I don’t trust magic even though I have a portion ofmagic that runs within me, I find it too treacherous to trust. I see her close her eyes as she murmurs under her voice, slowly a green light starts to shine under her hands, rising until it is radiating out, fanning itself across the wall.
Sometimes I am still surprised when I see certain things that these sisters can do, they are all powerful in their own right, but when they are together, they are a force to be reckoned with. The green shimmers and sways like water in a lake. Hope stands like that for a long while, her body swaying with the movement of the magic, her expression calm.
“It’s working,” Darius says from the door, I look closely at the painting realizing that its more vibrant and not so dark. Hope continues for a few more minutes, I worry that she’s exhausting herself. Earlier she had to mask the mansion from prying eyes, and now she has to use her magic again for the painting. I know that she feels tired after using magic and today she hasn’t had a chance to rest yet.
“Enough Hope, it’s clean” I order quietly as not to startle her. The shimmer starts to slowly disintegrate to nothingness as her hands fall to her sides and she takes a step back into my waiting arms. Wrapping them around her waist I pull her against my chest feeling her body slowly start to relax. “Are you okay?” I ask feeling her breath against my arm as she breaths.
“Yes,” she murmurs but does not move.
“Thank you Hope, it looks even more vibrant than before” Dream says as she places a hand on Hopes back to pat her.
“mmm” Hope acknowledges.
“We can make our way through once Hope is feeling up to it” Dream states looking out at the men.
“Go through what?” Brok asks with a scowl as he looks at the wall more closely.
“The painting,” Dream explains.
“What?” Doil snaps before glancing at me in question, his brows raised in surprise, I nod in reply. “You serious!”
“Yes, Dream has the power of moving between realms through her paintings” the men all look at Dream and then back to me, I know what they are going to ask and I’m not sure I can give them an answer.
“Dream has the power to move between realms, are you sure that we can?” Darius asks as he steps right up to the wall to touch it.
“Don’t worry, I will get all of you there safely,” Dream promises with a smile.
“I sure hope so, I don’t envy the thought of being stuck in a wall, or half my body is here and the other half somewhere else.” Eaton mutters as he crosses his arms across his chest.
“It will be fine, you will see. All I need is for you to all hold hands,” Dream states with a smile which gets her the opposite effect.
“Hold hands?” Darius grunts, “I’m not holding anyone’s hand, what am I, two?”
“You have to for this to work,” Dream implores, the angry look on all the men’s faces is quite comical if it was not for the situation, we are in.
“Stop being such girls, you won’t have to do it for long.” I state hoping that I’m not lying as I have no idea how long this will take.
“Come on, we are wasting time,” Drez states as he goes to stand next to Dream and holds out his hand. I look down at Hope to see her gazing out at everyone with an amused look on her face.
“Are you feeling up to it?” I ask, which has her smiling up at me and then step back and away from me. The gap between us is immediately felt, I want to pull her close to me again but refrain, instead I step up to Drez and give him my hand as I take Hopes with my other one.
“Come on, we don’t have all day” I roar getting a grunt out of the men, but they slowly approach and start to hold hands. Their unpleased expressions aren’t lost on me which has me turning my head quickly towards the painting before they see me grinning in amusement.
“I’m going to pull everyone through, don’t let go no matter what” Dream explains as she steps up to the wall.
“What happens if we let go?” Brok asks.
“Then you will be stuck between the two realms” Dream explains, her words have the grin disappearing off my face in a second as I once again look back at all the men in warning. I know that as varied species we all like our space, but now isn’t the time to quibble about it.
“I need you all to stand in a line before the wall, when I step in you are to do the same, and don’t hesitate or you will be left behind.” Dream’s warning has everyone tensing as we are now dependent on each other to make sure we don’t get stuck between realms.
“Now, are you ready?” she asks receiving a grunt or a yes from everyone. “Raise your hands and place them on the wall, you will feel when I start entering the painting, you are to do the same.” Raising both arms, I place the hand I’m holding with Hopeagainst the wall and on my other side is Drez as our hands are joined against the wall.
I sense a pull as I see from the corner of my eye Dream push her hands through the wall, immediately I am pushing through, amazed as our clasped hands disappear through the wall. It feels like they are entering in through water, I hear the men mutter as they start to push their bodies through. We are warriors, used to fighting and using our weapons to get what we want, to have to depend on magic is a new experience for most, and one that some don’t like.
Being the leader of so many factions is tricky, as they are all so different and so powerful in their own right. I take a breath as I push my head through, my eyes trying to see any danger, but all I see is a thick fog that revolves around us as we step through. The fog starts to slowly rise as we move forward showing us the deep forest within Eternity Fae.
My senses are on high alert as I try to sense any danger, “Is everyone okay?” Dream asks as she glances at everyone. Once everyone has responded the men loosen their grip on the others hand and step away.
