She smiled and said, "Hello Jael! It's nice to see you again. You don't seem to have changed much. A little bigger, perhaps?" Now Anilec also joined us and told Ophelia about her dream. After she had finished telling, Ophelia thought for a moment.

With these last words, she turned into a butterfly again and flew back to her room so that no one would notice that she had been gone. We went back to the forest. When we were back at the clearing, I noticed that Arika was nowhere. We looked for them everywhere. When the sun went down, we hadn't found it yet. We now searched the edge of the forest and hoped that it was not too late. Suddenly, we heard four horses approaching in front of us. We hid in the forest. I let my feathers turn black and Anilec's fur also turned black. The horses trotted past us in the form of a diamond. The foremost and the rearmost rider were guards from the castle. The riders in the middle were slightly smaller and wrapped in black coats, so we couldn't recognize them. The rearmost rider had something on his back. It looked like a sack with something small in it. The sack kept hitting the rider's back, but despite all the noise, I could make out the weak heartbeat of a cat. I looked at Anilec with big eyes and knew that we were both thinking of the same thing: ARIKA!