Follow the Hummingbird (The Dream Tamer Chronicles Book 1) by Elena Carter

Author:Elena Carter [Carter, Elena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

“If you have any questions, write them down on a piece of paper.”

Tina could hear Greg’s voice. He was somewhere behind her, but she couldn’t turn around.

“What questions? Why paper? And what do I do with it?” she asked, not fully focusing on the questions or expecting an answer. She was trying to figure out why she couldn’t turn her neck.

She was sitting in an armchair in front of a TV in the middle of a dark room. Pictures moved on the screen, but her vision was blurred and there was no sound, making them hard to decipher. Tina felt like rubbing her eyes. She wanted to see what was going on.

“You’ll leave her another note at the door.” Greg ignored her first two questions, but she didn’t care. She was feeling sleepy. She didn’t want to hear; she wanted to see. To see Greg and to see what was happening on the screen.

Tina yawned and rubbed her eyes. The image was becoming a little bit clearer. She rubbed her eyes again, more intensively, then blinked several times and looked at the screen.

A woman sat on a swing on a porch with a bottle of soap bubbles in her hands. She was laughing, but Tina couldn’t hear it. Three little kids ran around her, chasing the rainbow-colored bubbles. They were laughing too. Tina smiled. She had always loved soap bubbles.

The woman blew out a bunch of bubbles, and the wind made them dance in the air and sparkle in the sunlight. The kids popped some of them with their little fingers, and the bubble hunters’ faces lit up with joy. Others would escape and head toward the clouds. The higher they floated, the more they lost their color, fading out and then disappearing in the air.

Tina gazed at the woman again. She looked familiar.

Did I see her on TV? Tina thought. She’s gorgeous. And this all looks like a commercial. A perfect happy family.

As if she could hear her thoughts, the woman glanced at Tina and laughed, shaking her head. It startled Tina so much she almost jumped, leaning forward.

While she was trying to catch her breath and slow her heart down, the woman on the screen handed the bubbles to one of the girls and got off the swing. She picked up the little boy chasing his sisters, gave him kisses on both of his chubby cheeks, and put him down. He immediately ran down the steps after the girls, who were now playing on the lawn.

The woman walked over to one of the flower pots by the front door and bent down. For a few moments, she looked for something under the bright red petals, carefully moving them with her hands until she retrieved a piece of paper, rolled into a tube. She straightened and unrolled it, reading the message. And then she turned and looked at Tina again.

Alice! It’s Alice! Tina grabbed the armrests tighter and wanted to jump up, but she couldn’t move.

The young version of Alice on the screen entered the house while the kids still played on the lawn.

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