Life Eternal by Woon Yvonne

Author:Woon, Yvonne [Woon, Yvonne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Love & Romance, Fiction - Young Adult, Horror & Ghost Stories, Fantasy & Magic
ISBN: 9781423169796
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Published: 2012-01-24T08:00:00+00:00

to arrive there

follow the nose of the bear

to the salty waters beneath;

here it is laid to rest

where to only the best

of our kind it shall be bequeathed.

Noah didn’t say anything for a long while. “You really found these? You didn’t just make them up?”

“Why would I make them up?”

The smile fell from his face. “I don’t know,” he said.

Inching toward him, I leaned over the paper. “I’ve been trying to figure out what it means, but I haven’t been able to get anywhere. It must mean somewhere in the cemetery, but there isn’t any water there except for a drinking fountain.”

He held the verses up to the light, reading them to himself again, before turning to me. “But of course it isn’t buried in this grave. Look.” He pointed to the line: here it is laid to rest. “When this line is isolated on a tombstone, it would lead you to believe that the secret was literally buried in that plot. But when you put it next to the riddle from the hospital, its meaning changes.”

“The tombstone isn’t marking anything,” I realized, squinting at the page.

“Exactly,” Noah said. “It’s not buried in the cemetery. It’s a trick, done on purpose to make people searching for the secret to think it’s buried there. But it’s not. It’s in salt water. Maybe in the ocean. The problem is that you’re missing the last part, which I would guess is actually the first part, if you look at the punctuation.”

“How do you know there’s only one part of the riddle left?” I asked. “What if there are more?”

“I don’t think there are,” he said. “If there are three riddles, with three lines each, then there are a total of nine lines. One for each of the sisters. All the tombstone riddle tells us is that the secret can only be found by Monitors,” Noah said. “The phrase the best of our kind must mean that only the best Monitor will find it.” Noah’s eyes fell on me. “That’s you.”

Pulling my knees toward me, I shook my head. “No, I’m just ranked number one at St. Clément. There are lots of older, better Monitors than me. I couldn’t even figure out the riddle without your help.”

“All Monitors work in pairs….” he said, his gaze resting on me.

Blushing, I looked at my food, which I had barely touched. I should have felt flattered, but instead I was overwhelmed with guilt. “And you have Clementine,” I said softly.

“Right,” he said, and we sat in an uncomfortable silence, Noah slicing more cheese as I glanced around the courtyard, wondering if, somehow, Dante was watching us right now.

“What we have to do is start looking for a body of salt water with some sort of bear near it. One that only Monitors can find.”

“Or alternatively, that the Undead can’t find. The Undead can’t sink in water,” I said, unable to meet his eye as I remembered the Dead Man’s Float lecture from gym class last year, and how we learned that once a person dies and reanimates, he floats to the surface.

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