"So I should think of this as a test then?" Amaretto frowned and looked at her aunt. Katherine smiled sadly.
"A test seems to be an interesting way to put it, but yes. This is a test. However, this test has no room for failure." Katherine shook her head ant then looked back at La sorcière who simply stared back in incomprehension. Amaretto was not pleased with the situation and didn't look it either.
"I must say that this seems a little bit rushed... I don't like this at all." Amaretto bit her lip.
La sorcière looked at her with clear eyes that seemed to pierce Amaretto to the core. "When you loose someone close to you, then you can come back to me and tell me that it seems odd. She is normally the only person that I may talk to. If no one goes to save her then I may never talk to anyone ever again except for those who have a wish and those who are on a pilgrimage."
Amaretto looked away, feeling shame color her face. The small girl looked as if she was about to say something when the water around them began to boil.
"What's happening?" Amaretto looked around panicking not sure what it was that she was supposed to do.
Katherine frowned and slightly stumbled as she tried to look up something on her palm pilot. "I have no idea. There is no information on an earthquake today." Amaretto was about to say something, but Katherine prattled onwards. "Though we are in Monde Creux, I don't think that I get reports on the palm for this then."
"I think this is something else though," said La sorcière. Amaretto tried to step back when she almost tripped over her own feet. She fell forward onto her knees. Her ears picked up a slight keening noise. Leaning forward, she realized that it was coming from the mirror below.
"The sound... it sounds like the same one we heard from when we were with Tempus." Amaretto spoke, trying to get her aunt's attention and failed at it. "Aunt Katherine!"
The Godmother didn't look at her but had a surprised and slightly worried look on her face. Amaretto took her index finger and poker her aunt in the side.
"OW! That was uncalled for!" Katherine narrowed her eyes as she looked at Amaretto with displeasure.
"Just listen!" Amaretto pointed at the mirror.
Katherine rolled her eyes and listened for a moment and then knit her brows in frustration. "It does sound the same," she began.
La sorcière pointed to a section of the mirror that cleared and said, "That is why. An alarm has been set off."
"Another alarm, great," Amaretto complained. She looked in the direction that La sorcière was pointing in.
At that moment, there was a sudden screech in the glass around them and the otherwise turbulent water turned a rather rapid shade of greenish red. It was probably the most vile color that Amaretto had ever seen. Katherine looked at it an said so.
"Quickly," La sorcière said.
Katherine held up her hand and shook her head. "There must be something that is tripping an alarm somewhere. What is this alarm for?"
La sorcière waved her hand at the water below them and the whole mirror turned into its innocuous sheet of glass once more. There, displayed on the crystalline surface was a picture of a group of people who were walking across the deserted sands of Monde Creux. They were dressed in a rather strange motley of clothes, but the one thing that stood out was the fact that they were wearing large wooden masks that covered their faces.
"Are they walking towards here?"
La sorcière nodded her head. "That is what it looks like. It appears that she has sent people after you."
Amaretto sneered at first and then her face shifted to confusion. "There is no reason to... wait what?"
La sorcière raised her hand and the whole of the mirror solidified again. Amaretto tried to say something, but Katherine interrupted her by waving her palm pilot around. "I just got an email dictating that the Hourglass is about to be contested! This is not good."
Amaretto looked like she was getting sick. "Contested? What does that mean? Someone else is going to be able to have this thing? I say let them."
Katherine grinned. "It means that if we don't move, we are going to be killed."
"Is that supposed to be funny?"
"Not at all, it is merely the truth." Katherine began to giggle slightly.
Amaretto looked to the girl who was frantically moving towards her side. "you have to get out of here now," said La sorcière. "I cannot allow for her to get her hands on your hourglass!" La sorcière raised her hands and the chamber took on a somber hue at that moment.
"Who is she?" amaretto's voice was full of confusion. She looked at her aunt who was frantically using her palm pilot.
La sorcière ignored her though. "I'm going to send you through paralax..."
"Para-what?" amaretto tried to say more, but was cut off at that moment.
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