Funny Halloween: Chapter Two Hundred and Sixty-Five : Weird phone call (part six ...

CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED and SIXTY-FIVE

(part six)

Jacob was sitting in a white quartz box in the back of a cairn on the west coast of the Isle of Man. He could hear the ocean waves crash against the beach and the rain tap on the ground outside. Delphie must have said something funny because everyone outside the box laughed.

He was supposed to find the fourth section of Queen Fand’s human body. His mother, Celia, was confident it was in this cairn. Jacob had crawled through a two foot hole to get to this box sized white quartz chamber. The chamber was just big enough for him to sit with his knees bent and his back against the wall. So far, he’d found nothing, and intuited less than that. He was using the time in the box to rest.

Much to his surprise, a phone rang. He looked around the small compartment until he noticed that one of the white quartz walls had a new feature—a 1950s wall phone hung on the wall.

“Hello?” Jacob asked.

“Jake? It’s Seth,” Seth said. “Where are you?”

“I’m sitting in a cairn trying to find some bones,” Jacob said.

“Queen Fand’s human body, by any chance?” Seth asked.

“That’s right,” Jacob said. “How did you know?”

“Dionne read me the rest of the Kingdom of Marle book,” Seth said.

“The gargoyles told me the rest,” Jacob said. “It didn’t help.”

“The gargoyles could only tell you what happened,” Seth said. “The book was written to pass down clues to your task.”

“What?”

“A lot of old books were written not only to pass down what happened, but also to convey how to fix it,” Seth said. “The storytellers trusted that there would come a time when someone would be able to right the wrongs of this world. They left details in the book, and in this case, they left them in the images in the books.”

“Images?” Jacob asked.

“Dionne’s book is an original copy of the Kingdom of Marle picture book,” Seth said. “She scanned the books and emailed them to me.”

“Are you still getting your blood done?” Jacob asked.

“Just finished,” Seth said. “The story tells of the defilement of the Queen of Marle—meaning rape—but the drawings show Celtic people burying pieces of her corpse around an oblong island.”

“The Isle of Man,” Jacob said.

“Exactly,” Seth said.

Denver Cereal continues on Monday…

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