I would move on.
My only purpose would be to find them .
And kill them.
Chapter Five
Tripudio : A small device that can transport a Fae from one area to another within the same Realm. Characterized by a small circle, with four larger circles surrounding it. Each of the four circles contains a sign from the four elements.
As we left my house, I couldn’t help but feel like I would never see it again. Like I was saying goodbye. Goodbye to my old home. Goodbye to Kansas, and this little town I’ve always lived in. Goodbye to my parents. Goodbye to everything. I walked away with my hands shoved into my jacket pockets and my beanie pulled down over my ears, and didn’t look back.
Not one tear escaped…
“So, Alec, how do we go the fairy world?” I asked as I walked beside him down the street.
“There are portas throughout the realms. Doorways from one realm to another. There is at least one porta in every continent, however some have more than one. There are three in the United States, two in Canada and one in Mexico. The closest porta to us in northern Texas.”
I stopped and pulled his arm to make him stop also. “In Texas? You do know that we are in Kansas right now, right?”
“Yes. Of course I know where we are.” Then he started walking again, expecting me to follow him. “We will use a Tripudio.”
“Oh, of course. A trip thingie. Just what I was thinking.” The sarcasm dripped off my tongue. “I probably could use a good trip right now.”
He ignored my snide remark and continued walking. We had just passed by the library and I made myself keep my eyes on the road. I didn’t want to look at my one place of refuge. I didn’t want to look back at the past anymore. I was headed for the future. To a place with retribution and justice.
“A tripudio is a device that allows Fae to travel from one place to another, within a certain distance, within one Realm. We can travel from Dodge City, Kansas, to Amarillo, Texas easily. What would take us ten hours to drive, or several hours to fly, will only take us a few minutes to walk there.” He said, then cleared his throat. “But it is limited. We couldn’t travel from here to like…England or anything. That distance would be too far. Just like, back home, we could travel anywhere in Ardennes, but not from one end of Ardennes to the far end of Muircadia.”
“You know, can you just imagine that you are talking to someone who has no idea what you’re talking about, for just a minute?” I said, exasperated at my lack of knowledge and his idiotic assumptions that I would just understand.
He looked over at me, and nodded. “I’m sorry. I’ll try to pretend that you’re a mortal.”
“Thanks.” I guess…
“While in the Mortal Realm, in order for a tripudio to work, we must be on sacred ground, meaning we must be near or inside a church.”
Up ahead I saw the red bricks of the First Baptist Church and finally understood where we were walking. Just a few more blocks and we would be there.
“So, then what? We go to the church and then do what?”
“Then we walk through the tripudio,” he stated matter-of-factly.
We walked up to the huge brick building, and headed up the stairs. The building was shaped strangely, almost like three rectangles connecting. We walked in between two of the sides, past the flagpole toward the back, where we would be hidden in the shadow of the building. It was still night time, so no one would see us anyway
He reached into his pocket and pulled out a device about four inches wide, but less than a half an inch in height. It was four circles connected to one circle in the middle. In each of the four circles was a different design.
“Can I see it?” I asked, curiosity getting the better of me.
“Sure.” He placed it into my open hands. It was heavier than I had imagined, probably weighed over five pounds. It was either dirty, old gold, or brass. The middle circle had nothing, and was smaller than the other
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