Chapter 6

They spent that night trying to brainstorm ways to get the water out of the lake and figure out what it was, along with trying to figure out what the symbols are. They had figured out that another one of the eight looked similar to a tree. They had went to bed early that night in hopes of getting a lot of rest for school the next day.

The next day was boring, nothing new or interesting happened which was a rather nice break front he chaos that has been happening. After school the twins went over to the fae's house in hopes of figuring out more symbols , but they really couldn't do much. They had tried to find more information on the internet about the prophecy or the fae, just like they found dawn's website, though there wasn't anything new there either.

The next day school had went pretty quickly, they night they had intended to go back to the place to try and get better pictures of the symbols as they still couldnt' make some of them out. Despite their plans there was also a slight need to go there again, just to sit there. The one who felt this the strongest was Laylian, who felt a little bit closer to home whilst she was there.

Laylian was sat near the water, sewing on some patches to the trousers that Tyrell was wearing the other day. She thought that the colours went well with the fabric of the trousers and offered to sew the patches on for him. The patches were tartan and the trousers were just a simple pair of light jeans. All was going well until she knocked a needle off the side of the tin it was resting on.

Laylian, wanting to wait for the needle to stop before she picked it up, watched as the needle went towards the water. She didn't feel the need to chase after a simple needle and so her attention was brought back to her sewing kit.

When Laylian heard "what the heck?!" being exclaimed from behind her, she jumped and nearly lost some more of her sewing supplies. Tyrell had came up behind her and was looking at one of the symbols in the water.

In the water there was a glowing light, it was soft and purple, though it was enough to grab the attention of Tyrell who was previously sat in the middle of the place with Sylvester. Sylvester was currently making friends with the animals using his dark fae communication powers, which was the only useful thing about his powers in Sylvester's opinion.

Kelso was off far away whilst taking pictures of the other symbols they had found yesterday, when she heard her twin shout she hurried back to the water where the light came from. "What...is happening?" she asked as she saw the light shining from the water.

It was the symbol of the eye that they had found rather early in their visit to the place. The outline of the symbol was shining the light purple which seemed very familiar to all four of them. "The eye of the needle." Laylian muttered as she looked from her sewing kit to the water which must have eaten up the metal.

The light from the symbol seemed to be pointing towards the centre of the room, which was across the water to a place the four of them could not reach. The four watched as the light expanded, it seemed to solidify in front of their eyes. It was about thirty centimetres wide and it went straight to the centre of the small island in the middle of the water.

"That's it! It's got to be, our way across!"Kelso jumped up and down whilst clapping her hands. The loud sound of her hands clapping together drew Tyrell and Sylvester out of their trances.

"Is it solid though?" Tyrell's question made kelso stop with her foot raised. There was no way on this planet that Tyrell was going to let his sister even attempt to get across that very thin bit of light which seems to be solid. Tyrell picked a rock up off the ground and threw it along the light. Much to everyone's surprise the rock stayed in the middle of the light.

Sylvester was now standing next to Kelso , hovering a hand on her elbow in order to ensure she knew not to go closer. This somewhat comforted Kelso, it was comforting to know that she had a friend in Sylvester as they hadn't really hung out before without their significant others. Kelso could see Laylian staring at her hesitantly from where she sat on the floor.

"Okay...i'm not going to cross it" Kelso said loudly as she crossed her arms. She then continued very quietly "or attempt to and fall into the water..." She knew that she would probably fall into the water despite her love of climbing and balancing on things.

"Yes lets not disintegrate ourselves..." Tyrell muttered as he looked towards Laylian's sewing kit. "So it was the eye symbol...the eye of the needle..." the colour seems to drain from Tyrell's face as he realized what kind of method this was going to be. It was one of those riddle things. The kinds of puzzles where it seems obvious what they need and it turns out to be something completely different.

As the symbol was of a human eye it did not mean that they had to get an actual eye, the eye of the needle was enough to activate the symbol. The four of them were pretty pleased that they did not need to get an actual eye for the symbol to activate . This meant that they would actually need to be able to identify the symbols in order to figure out an alternative ...sacrifice.

"Do you think..." Laylian started as her eyes wondered to her book bag "if it needs to be a replacement?" Laylian was about to take a book out of her bag before Sylvester stopped her with a somewhat annoyed look.

"As much as i would love to test that theory..."Sylvester started to say as he turned his back ont he lake and started to walk towards his own bag. "We kind of need to turn in for the night, it's getting late and Hazel would worry if we stayed out here...and we need all the books in that bag for school.

The other three smiled at the care and concern that laced Sylvester's voice. Even though he seemed rather sarcastic at the beginning , the care for Hazel's wellbeing was still present.

"Yeah we should head home ."