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With some difficulty you manage to make your way through the dense overgrowth to arrive at the garden. The pouring rain is now no more than a drizzle. The grounds have seen better days but are green and the trees in this area are alive and thriving, unlike everything else around this house. They are no doubt kept alive due to the old leaky fountain. It must be fed by an underground spring.  You follow a black cat along the meandering stepping stones which leads you past a raised stone sitting area. There is a garden bench here and someone has arranged a formation of small stones! Each of the stones are roughly inscribed by strange symbols. They are in the same order as the drawings inside the telescope room. Now that you see them standing here they remind you of something -- Stonehenge.
As you stand near the garden bench to study the stones you find two notes wedged in under the stones. The first note reads: I watch them come and go during certain moon cycles only to find the next morning they are gone -- including the massive stones. The only thing left is a small stone. I have collected almost all of the small stones to complete my model but I have no idea what it all means. I have not been able to decode the symbols inscribed on the stones. I am afraid of those who perform the rituals at the great stones, as they are not of this world, so I watch them from afar. Tomorrow is All Hallows Eve, they will return and they will leave the final stone. I believe once I have collected and assembled all the small stones in correct formation a portal will open. To where no mortal may ever know! The second note was not completed, it appears to have been torn out from under the writers hand. It reads: Tonight is Halloween. I knew they would come tonight, I did not want to wait for sunrise to take the last small stone, so while they were busy in ritual I took it. The final small stone is in place and something is terribly wrong. I..... The note was never finished and where did the letter writer go? What is your decision? † I'll stay on the garden path! † Take me to the Foyer! Copyright © 1998-2009 M. Buck All Rights Reserved FRIGHTBYTES.COM - Home |