#TimeTravelingGhost EP 13: Post 142, 1,802,701 CE, Eemaoold, Thames Valley
#Wss366 Stride #TimeTravelingAuthors Trick / Treat
[Note: I originally posted an EP out of order. This is the correct one and should hopefully make things clearer.]
Soonee’s statue grew brighter, illuminating the chamber where we’d slept. Meanwhile, the sky above turned pink and lavender as dawn broke. Weena grasped my hand. Her usually gentle grip threatened to bruise my fingers. The pain drove home the point that this was not a mad trick of a delusional mind.
“Soonee, Soonee coome,” she said awed.
A single beam of sunshine pierced a chink in the wall and lit the stone figure turned flesh. The light reflected off a blazing topaz diadem. In one hand, she held a magnificent, moon-etched sapphire. My gasp was swallowed by the rustle of the sphinxes stretching their wings like preening birds.
Then, the beam was gone. The goddess dimmed, blurring as the air trembled, wavering. Fragments of color scattered, falling in a riotous rainbow. When the scene cleared, a gray, time-worn statue receded to its original position, while another strode forward toward us.
Weena had bowed down to the floor, pressing her head against the stone flagging. “Soone, wheer!”
I almost fainted when the figure said, “Bijou!”
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