Page 86 of Game of Destiny
“Idiot!” Amie told Sam as we got back on our feet. “Do you know what Meadow would have done to me if we got back with your head smashed in?” she hissed. Then gave Sam a hug and walked back to where Jake was trying to decipher the symbols. Sam walked over to me, looking where he placed his feet.
“Not the smartest move I have made. Thanks man. She is right, Meadow would have been pissed,” he said, rubbing the back of his head.
“Let’s try and be patient and let the two of them figure this out,” I told him and looked at Amie and Jake.
“Good plan.”
“I think we got it,” Jake said.
“What does it say?” I asked.
“In the beginning of time, a man stood looking into the forest. A wolf came walking by and asked the man why he was standing there. ‘I am too scared to go into the forest,’ the man said. ‘It is full of your brothers and they will eat me if I walk into the forest.’ The wolf looked at the man. ‘I will carry you on my back, my brothers will not harm you if you ride me,’ the wolf said. ‘I will show you the forest.’ The man was surprised. ‘What would you ask of me for this favour?’ the man asked. ‘I would ask for you to do the same for me. I would like to see the world outside the forest, the world of men,’ the wolf replied. The man agreed and climbed up on the wolf’s back and they explored the forest together. When they had seen all the forest, the wolf brought the man to the place they had met years before. They switched and the man carried the wolf all over the realm of man. When they had seen everything the man brought the wolf back to their spot where the forest met the realm of man. But they both hesitated. They had spent years in each other’s company, grown closer to each other than to anyone else. Neither of them wanted to be apart. The goddess of the moon saw their pain and in her wisdom she made them one, both wolf and man, so they never needed to walk in fear or be alone,” Amie read.
“I have never heard that legend before,” Jake said. We all agreed with him.
“We have all heard the legend of how werewolves were created to protect the moon goddess, this was nothing like it. So what if it is a clue in disguise?” Amie suggested. I nodded.
“So the man and the wolf carrying each other on their backs,” I thought out loud.
“It may be telling us to do the same?” Jake asked.
“That would make sense as that would mean we couldn’t be five, it needs to be even numbers,” Ramses said.
“Oh. That’s a good point,” Amie agreed.
“Hop up,” I told her and turned my back to her. She jumped up on my back with a giggle. “Ready to test this?” I asked her.
“Sure,” she agreed.
“Everyone be quiet. If you hear a click, let us know,” I told everyone. I slowly moved forward to the place Sam had been when the log had swung down. Nothing happened and soon we reached the wall. Nothing was triggered.
“Sweet. Up you go, Jake,” Sam said. They joined us at the wall.
“How do we get over it?” Amie asked.
“Now we know it’s safe. I can get a running start and leap up. Just hold on,” I told her. I backed up, ran up to the wall and jumped up. I got a good grip on the top of the wall and could lift both me and Amie up.
‘Don’t tell anyone, but that was kind of hot,’ she mindlinked me.
‘Don’t tell me things like that in the middle of the game,’ I said.
‘Fine I won’t tell you.’
‘I change my mind, I want to know what you think is hot,’ I said as I watched Sam take a running start and leap at the wall. He made it as well. ‘Ramses sit tight, we will get you out’ I mind linked our teammate we had left behind.
‘Alpha, there is a new line to the text,’ he linked back to all of us. We looked back and he was right, a new line of symbols had appeared.
‘Can you see my key and read it?’ Jake asked.
‘I can. Thank you for leaving it.’ Jake shrugged.
‘Hard to take the floor with you,’ he said, and we all chuckled.
‘It says: Looking forward can make you understand the present,’ Ramses told us.
“What does that mean?” I asked out loud.
“Look at the floor behind us,’ Jake said. I turned around, still with Amie on my back. What we had seen as a wall was really a ledge. We stood on a flat floor. There was a large floor surface with a grid in front of us. Each square was about two by two feet in size. In the middle of each was a symbol. The grid was four squares wide by nine squares long.
