A Gypsy Song (The Eye of the Crystal Ball - The Wolfboy Chronicles) Read Online Free PDF Page B

she said.
    “Then maybe you are the one having made a pact with the devil,” the boy said. “I wouldn’t go in there without being on good terms with the evil spirits. That is for sure.”
    Sara crossed her arms in front of her chest.
    “I haven’t but I will be just fine,” she said, turning around and starting walking away.
    She tried really hard not to do it, but after walking for awhile she turned around and looked to see if he was still standing where she had left him.
    He wasn’t.
    “Humph,” she said and entered the forest, leaving all the light behind her.
     
    Sara tried to remember her way back and as she walked she grew confident that she would. She remembered a small clearing, a pond, and a big stone that she had passed earlier. She walked carefully always looking back to see if anything or anyone was behind her, and she would look up to see if anything was about to jump her from a tree. She stepped carefully not to disturb any sleeping animals or awaken the senses of the creatures that were already stirring. She could be as quiet as a mouse in her attempt not to let them know she was there.
    But even though they are very quiet, mice often get trapped.
    As Sara came to a larger clearing in the forest, she was sure she heard music. Thinking it was coming from her own camp, she started running towards it, but as she did she went deeper and deeper into the forest and suddenly she no longer recognized anything from earlier. The music seemed to come from far away, but it was so alluring she didn’t notice that it was really enticing her to go further and further away from the path she was following. And deeper into the forest. Deep into the heart of the forest where Nyx, the spirit of the night, lived with her brood of dark spirits, including the three fates, Sleep, Strife and Pain. They lived out of human souls. They devoured them.
    And what Sara didn’t know was that they were the ones making the music trying to get her to go so deep into the forest that she would give up on finding a way out and then they would lull her to sleep with their sweet songs and calming music. If they succeeded in doing so, they could steal her soul and feast on it.
     But Sara didn’t know any of all that, so she kept walking and walking until her legs were so tired she had to stop.
    She sat down and leaned against a big rock.
    “Maybe if I closed my eyes for just a second,” she mumbled as her eyelids slowly were about to close. The music, it was so … it made her so … sleepy.
    As the eyelids finally closed on both her eyes, four spirits emerged over her head. The beautiful blond women in their light blue dresses were spinning around, singing their alluring songs, whispering in her ears that it was time to go to sleep, and then they started singing the lullabies from Sara’s childhood to her.
    “Just let me sleep for a little while,” Sara mumbled as she slipped slowly into the unforeseeable world of dreams.
    The spirits now stood close to her still humming the songs, and as Sara slipped away they transformed themselves into beasts. Out of their beautiful goddess faces emerged beastlike teeth as they got themselves ready to devour Sara’s poor unknowing soul.
    But just as the spirit of Pain opened her mouth and stuck her teeth into Sara’s neck in order to suck the soul out, a sound came out of the forest.
    “Noo! You can’t fall asleep!”
    It was the guitar-boy that Sara had met earlier. He was running towards her yelling as loud as he could in order to wake her up.
    The spirits hissed like angry cats but they couldn’t touch him since he wasn’t asleep. Pain sucked all she could while the boy grabbed Sara and started shaking her.
    “Wake up! Wake up!” He yelled all he could to try and penetrate her consciousness.
    But she was too sound asleep. Her mind had drifted too far and was no longer in this world.
    The spirits laughed as they were spinning around in the air. Pain was still sucking the life out of