Chapter 11 - First Clue is Solved
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“Eva, just tell us what it is your trying to say, my brain is too mushy to think about anything right now?” Katie groaned in irritation, and I rolled my eyes in exasperation, throwing my hands in the air with a huff.
“The riddle my birth mother gave us, I just figured it out. At the beginning of nightfall, the sun sets.”
“But the sun is already set before nightfall begins,” My mother reasoned thoughtfully, her words causing the grin on my face to falter. “So sunset wouldn’t be the answer to the clue. Unless she had written, at the drop of the sun, nightfall begins.”
Thinking over her words in disappointment I slump against the couch with a pout, my head dropping down in a sad display of frustration.
Ugh, why has something so simple as the fall of the sun and the rising of the night become so difficult to understand?
“What about Twilight?” Katie voiced, and my head snapped up in the intrigue.
“Twilight?” I asked sceptically, turning to face her, and she nodded.
“Yes, at the beginning of nightfall, twilight begins.”
Smiling slowly in response I nod as her words play around in my head. “At the beginning of nightfall, twilight begins!”
A bright flash of light blinded everyone for a couple of seconds as the sound of a loud ‘pop’ could be heard, and once the light vanquished the red diary of my birth mother appeared from thin air, dropping onto my lap.
Shocked still, the three of us stared down at the red book in silence, before I stuttered out. “Wel-well, I guess this means w-we can’t say the clues out loud in public.”
Taking in a deep breath I try to calm down my shaking limbs which reached for the necklace dangling around my neck, using the key to unlock the diary we watched while the pages flipped open without any help from me and words rapidly began to appear in black ink.
“What do you mean?” Katie turned to me, her question catching me off guard for a couple of seconds before I realized she was responding with a question to my earlier statement.
“What I meant was, if we’re stomped on a clue it would be best if we do not say the answers out loud while in a public place. There wouldn’t be any explanation one could come up with to explain something as disastrous as a red diary popping out of thin air.”
“Oh yeah, that would be funny and terrible at the same time.” She chuckled, earning a look from my mother and me.
I picked up the diary placed on my legs and read aloud the words written on the page.
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Well done Maria, if you reading this then the first clue has been discovered. Now for the second clue, you need to figure which direction to go:
The next clue is West…
Here’s your hint- from the east to the west.
“What does she mean from the east to the west?” I frown. “Can this be anymore annoying?”
“Calm down,” My mother cautioned me gently. “It might be an easy clue just like the first one. We just need to think carefully.”
Letting out a sigh, I nod and try to calm down my frustration. Wrapping a hand over my shoulder she continues. “Uhm, from the east to the west. She clearly said “which direction" so maybe the map could be in that direction. Starting from the east to the west.”
“Okay,” I mumbled slowly, thinking over her words. “If you think about it carefully we live in the east district of Sonoma county and…” I trailed off, trying to think of a place we might know that’s in the west district that could be connected to me.
“School!” Katie exclaimed excitedly, startling us. “Our school is in the west district.”
“You’re right!” I grinned, and we shared a high-five.
Immediately more words began to appear across the page and I looked down to read out loud with a smile:
Good, you’ve got it, I’m very glad Maria. I will admit I cheated while mentioning the whole “direction” thing. For my third clue, it might be a little harder to “get to”.
The next clue is Wild flowering dogwood …
Here’s your hint - flowerpot.
“Okay, I give up,” I grumbled in annoyance just as the diary shut closed.
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