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I had enjoyed my breakfast, even more so than I had expected, but not so much because the food was better than the day before, it's the same. What had chanced, is my venture out of their control. I had found an element of freedom. Even if I had not exactly exhausted myself, in doing so.
Of course, then there are all the tests. Starting with a series of scans, from the X-rays and to gods knew what. They never explained it to me, maybe this made my boredom even worse. If they couldn't explain the test, what were they good for? I couldn't ask, since I knew they wouldn't answer. I had tried, a few times the first two days, then I gave up.
They had merely managed to finish the tests just before lunch, that's because they wanted to have lunch themselves. I had enjoyed my lunch but felt alone, confused, not quite knowing what to do.
In the end, there was but the one thing to do, I slipped out of my room and walked to the elevator. As it turned out, I found it slipping down to the bottom, and I spill out, back where I had come from. I had been here, just the other day. It's my only refuge at this point. Maybe the book could spell my salvation after all, despite the initial fear.
I had managed to go from the elevator, to the door hiding the secretive and mysterious library the other day. If the library isn't there as I open the door, it would shock me to the core, a room just doesn't disappear or have a major change overnight. That's what they do in films, but not in a library.
I was relieved as I finally entered the room, the library is still where I had left it. Every last detail as I had left it, as if the air had stopped as I closed the door behind me. Had there been dust in the room, it would have stopped dead in space, but there still is none of that nuisance.
What I find, is all the same books, at exactly the same places. Not that I bothered looking at them, it wasn't these books I had come for. Maybe they're holy and enchanted, like the one book I had been reading the other day, but it is the book in the next room I'm interested in.
I walk through the room, to the next door. Behind the door, everything is as if it had been a long lost tomb, and a pharaoh's curse had stopped the time. The book as I had left it, and I walk the few remaining steps up to the book. It's still the same meanly large book I had left here last night.
Apparently I had closed the book on my way out, or someone had closed it for me. It left me wonder which page I had been reading, before I left the room. If it had any relevance, but I guess I'm not quite up to the level of seeing it to be, or not to be the case.
Now I merely lift the cover, opening the book in order to see more of it. I wanted to see what is in the book. I know I had seen a picture, and I had red a text, even if I had no idea as to what it was all about, I didn't understand what it was. I still have no idea.
I recognized the image, and flipped the page. Then I found another image, and curiously enough, there is more text under this image. I guess I shouldn't have, but I still did read it.
At first, nothing happened. Had the book lost its power, or had I merely red the words wrong. Maybe I shouldn't have asked.
“Greetings, my little foal!” the voice spoke, but I couldn't make out from where the majestic voice came.
The room is empty, and I knew it. There isn't anyone in here with me, I'm alone with the book, besides, who would speak like this, and the words were all wrong. No human, male or females speaks like this. Not in this day and age. Was it a repressed memory, but I'm not quite this old. A chill slowly started to advance up my spine. Making it shiver, as if it had been frozen from the inside and out.
“Whom am I speaking to?” I pondered, not quite realizing I was pronouncing the words, and in her dialect, to be exact.
“I am Luna, Princess of the night. The one to comfort you, in the darkest hours, when your dreams are oppressing you, my dearest little filly!” she just responded.
“Luna? I know I don't know you, since we've never actually met. We still haven't. By the sound of your voice, I think I may like to, some day, when it is right!” I pondered.
“No, we haven't. You will see me, soon enough. You've found the gate, and you're holding the key. Just be patient, and you will see me soon!” Luna assured me with utter confidence, like only a Princess of the Night could.