“I guess we blew it” Who says. The guards are still inside the throne room and have let them to wait. Who is looking at the fountain, the bird sculpture seems familiar but it looks worn out as if it was very old. She looks at the walls and they seems to have a coat of dust covering drawings that tell a story.
“It seems like there hasn’t been any joy or life in this place for a long time” She says
“It’s like outside Burt, like there’s nothing there, not even a few survivors”
She looks at the fountain closely “What do you remind me of? Burt, have you seen something like this?
“Brrrrrrrrrr” Says Burt who is now inside the fountain and drinking from the water stream.
“No, don’t get me into this you know what I meant, I didn’t said… wait” She says as she now cant hear the gurgling sound of the fountain. On the back of the fountain, near the birds tail there is an opening where the stream fell into, and now is empty because Burt‘s horn is stopping the water.
“Is this a whistle?” She says stepping into the fountain. She takes a deep breath and grabs her hair to get it out of the way. She puts her mouth on the opening and blows.
A loud chirping fills the air as if a hundred birds sang in unison
“Oh dear I made a booboo” Who says
The guards come rushing with their swords ready, Ello jumps and runs away towards the first hall Burt follows it trying to grab it
“Wait!” Yells Who, but the guards are coming fast so she runs towards the hallway as well
“Im sorry! It was me! It was me I’m sorry!” She yells as the guards push them out of the hallway into the main hall, and they stand guard looking at the big open roof. The petals covering it sit silent and motionless but they act as if something was about to come through.
The king arrives sword in hand and also stares at the roof. Who grabs Ello and is going to get Burt when she is pulled backwards with huge force. It’s the Queen. Once again she is taking them to safety as if it was her duty during an attack.
“It was me! Burt!” Who yells but noone listens, the Queen carries them fast through the fountain room and the royal hall towards a secret hallway behind the throne. Hiding behind a large white petal.
They arrive at a small room, the queen drops Who in the floor and turns around to hold onto a huge round stone near the door. Her back muscles grow big as she rolls the stone blocking the entrance.
“Nono it was me, it wasn’t anything above” Says Who
The Queen is catching her breath, she takes Ello from Who and cuddles it as if it was a baby, she gives Who a small shovel like sword and starts going into a small tunnel
“Wait!” Says Who as she holds onto her leg. The Queen shows Ello as if it was something they needed to do, as if they had to protect the children, but Who is not letting go.
The Queen slowly comes back looking at the blocked door and puts Ello on a small couch. Ellos is asleep as usual.
“I blew into the statue” Who says, but the Queen doesn’t seem to understand “Oh why can’t I explain, maybe if i whistle” and as she was about to whistle using her mouth she looked at the Queen looking at the door, worried. The only people Who has seen are behind that door. What if whistling made things worse?
She just sat down close to her and tried to gather her thoughts. Burt is out there as well.
The room is a small comfy room, like a waiting area that takes to other places. There are several weapons and a couple tunnels as if the building extended beyond. But everything looks like if it was abandoned time ago, as if only ghosts lived there.
Who is overwhelmed and starts crying “Im sorry, I don’t even know who I am how can I ask you about you” she says out loud
The Queen removes her shoulder helmet and sets it aside. It’s a heavy stone for what it seems.
“Why do you carry that all day?” Who asks “are you afraid of what’s out there?”
She looks at the Queen’s leg, her bandage goes to her foot and it looks like it hurt herself carrying them into the room.
“I know how that feels” Says Who while showing her slippers “that’s whyIts good to use something like this” A smile appears on her teary face “hey let me make you some” she says as she stands and goes to get Ello
“Ello is not my baby, I’m sure it’s someone’s baby but for what I see it is a big kid”
Ello had already started drooling in it’s sleep, Who cleans her face and starts pooling the honey drool as its sticky but won’t run.
She tries to grab the sparkly stone from Ellos small claws but its to difficult
“Wow Ello no wonder you can jump so high” Who says “Come on sweetie let me grab it, mommy needs some shoes”
“Elloooh” says the bee still asleep as it lets go of the stone
Who sits on the floor, removes her slippers and shows them to the Queen “Look let’s do some” She says and starts splashing her feet on the honey. The Queen slowly follows and after a couple splashes covered their feet Who motions to the Queen to cover her eyes “Like this” she says putting a hand on her face. She hits the sparkling stone on the ground and a flash lights up the room.
“Sheeeeeshhh” Says Ello now awake and jumps quickly to grab it’s stone.
“Tada!” Says Who as she stands and starts tapping around with her new shoes. They look like tennis shoes as they are thick in the bottom. The Queen gets up and does the same. She has a cute way of slightly tapping her feet and her face has a bit of joyful happiness.
Who looks in wonder and cleans the last tears from her eyes. “Well at least I made you smile” She says.
A rhythmic tapping sound is heard on the door, the Queen seems to recognize it and quickly starts rolling the big stone door open.
Courage drives us to explore what awaits out there and who we are inside, to face our questions and our need for wonder.
Who awakes in an unknown world and starts exploring to find out where and who she is.
There are creatures, secrets, mysteries and the search for Who’s in charge in here?
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