The Fairytale Code by Cameron Jace

Author:Cameron Jace
Language: eng
Format: epub

Helga made some tea and sat with Anne in the kitchen, as far as possible from the snoring detective. Anne had told Helga all about what happened, including the girl on the cross and the mapestry. Helga had always been Anne’s most trusted person on the Fairytale Road since she first arrived for her studies. It took Anne a long time to fully trust her with the most intricate details about her research. Helga proved over and over again to be that cheery, easy-living woman who believed in her. So much that Anne had told her too much about her childhood, and about what happened with Rachel.

“Do you have a clue what this poem means?” Anne asked Helga, who sipped her tea almost as loudly as David’s snoring.

“I’ve read so many of these puzzles as a child, Anne,” Helga said. “It sounds very familiar.”

‘What do you mean by that?”

“I can’t explain it, but it sounds like something a local would write.”

“A Trendelburg local?”

“A Fairytale Road local,” Helga said. “You know we’re all so dreamy in this region. The backdrop of our folklore history, the architecture, and the lore you see and talk about daily made most of us talk the same.”

“This little poem sounds that way, right?” Anne said. “What gave it away?”

“First of all, the part about the ‘abyss mark.’”

“What about it?”

“I think in a proper English pronunciation it should be written like ‘in an abyss mark’ or ‘in abyss’s mark.’ I’m no English expert but you can tell it’s told by someone who speaks English as a second language, and doesn’t care to be as correct.”

“Well, unless abyss mark is more of a noun or a commonly known place, not a description or metaphor, I guess yes.”

“Had it been a name of a place, it would have been written in capitals, and I’d have probably heard of it,” Helga said. “The point is that the children around here write these kinds of puzzles in our holidays, and they love writing them in English to show them to tourists. Some cities on the Fairytale Road have a Treasure Hunt day which tourists love.”

“I know about those, and true, foreigners love them,” Anne said. “What else?”

Helga took a long, noisy sip, which accidentally synced with David’s symphony, creating a peculiar cacophony around Anne. “From the top of my head it’s an invitation.”

“Invitation?”

“Since it’s a mapestry, it suggests a stupid idea like the Big Apple being New York, and the Two Towers being the World Trade Center—which is utter nonsense, since the mapestry brought you back to the Fairytale Road.” Helga wiped her mouth with the tip of her sleeve and put on her glasses.

“Makes perfect sense to me,” Anne said. “What do you see, then?”

“‘Sixteen O Two’ is time, foreshadowed by the word time preceding it in ‘Once upon a time.’“

“Time of the event I’m invited to?” Anne wasn’t sure about Helga’s interpretation but didn’t mind going along with it.

“Streets so mute is an address,” Helga said.

“A characteristic of a certain street, I agree,” Anne said.

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