Chapter 11: Slowly things become clear.

Chapter 11: Slowly things become clear.

Petra told the Lady, all she had learned the last time, with as most important fact, how glad Nemo had been, this special crystal did not go lost, as the Atlantians had believed.

The Lady told Cindy, who was there with Lea and Amany, another secret of her ‘secret box’.

“It does not have any use for somebody else, to look into that box.
You know, in very ancient times this box was created, and given to a great, great, many times great grandmother, that had the same lovely curly red hair as Cindy,” and she did make that stand all sides by rubbing with her hands through it.

Than, while Cindy still giggled about it, she went on: “the one, who did make it for us for safe keeping, told we were not allowed to have somebody else peek into it, without our permission, for only ‘we’ could hold in all, that belongs in there.

The things, that have to appear, do so, when the time is right for it when wé do look.
When somebody else should have a peek, things could come out, when it is not the right time for it.”

Lea said: “A bit like our teacher told about the olden history of the Greece, about the box of Pandorra.”

The Lady did smile: “Yes. Like that.
That is one of the stories in that time, a Homelander friend told his friend in the world. Why?
While than also people sometimes where to nosey, even when it was not their right to be nosy about something.”

“Is nosey different from curious?” Lea did ask.

“Curious is about wanting to know how things work, and it mostly has a purpose, a goal why somebody wants to know.
Nosey is just wanting to know for knowing only, not for a purpose.
Would you like everybody knows all about you?
Just while they want to, even if you do not like that?” the Lady asked.

“Of course not,” Lea said indignant.
“Nobody does know about Cindy, and nobody should!”

“That makes it clear.
So while things do appear in our secret box, when it is time for them, also here in Homeland, where all secrets of life are kept safe, we also are very careful with it.

Cindy did put it back in its secret place, only we redheads know.
When Nemo does think, he has need for it, and he can explain us why, only than we will take it out its hiding place.
Will you tell him so, Petra?” the Lady did ask.
She only had to nod yes.

Than another question came in Petra’s mind: “Cindy and Lea, you did promise me, to make a copy of the sleets, with the drawing Billy made of his room.
How can that be, and please, could you do it now?
There is already a small corner broken of, while I did fall,” she said, blushing, while she did feel not to be careful enough.

“Give them to us, and in a few minutes we are back,” Lea said. “I do make copy’s on my scanner. How many do you want?”

Petra’s mouth opened in wonderment: “How many? But is paper not very valuable in the world?”

“Well, we are using less and less, while for new paper mostly trees are cut down, or we do use recycled paper as we can, but a few small pieces do not matter that much,” Lea said.

“Can I please have one for me, one for Billy, and may be one for the Lady, in case of any emergency?”

“That is a very good idea, Petra,” said the Lady. “For besides you, nobody does know how to get there.
And Billy does still have to wait, before he can come here for some time. And Nemo does not have his own friend here, so he cannot. We not always can use Purple to be our messenger, can we?” the Lady said.

Lea and Cindy went through their mirror, and hopped direct back already.
Almost a miracle in Petra’s eyes.
Petra did see the copies, admired them and carefully put away two of them, after giving the Lady hers.
“I do think, I’ll have to go to dry land also, when I am allowed, to see those miracle machines,” she laughed a bit envious.
“May be, when we have a hop over there with a lot of other Homelanders, like we did to the land of Wise Feather,” the Lady did remember Petra.

“But now we have to go to Lea’s home again, her night is almost over, and we want it to stay a secret, she sometimes does travel with me to Homeland to help.”
With those words they both waved goodbye and mirror-hopped back to Lea’s bedroom.

“Now you go back too, and this time use the copy. All you can tell Billy, is that Lea and Cindy did make it on dry land.
When it is time for him to go there, we tell him more.
But alas for him, that will take some time.

In the mean time, I will ask for some older Homelanders, if their friends in the world are interested in crystals.
And if they have heard of crystal healing, in a way, we can use to heal the world.
Will you do the same with Nemo, if he is allowed by his people and predictions?”

Petra asked: “Did Purple tell you about this predictions?
Or is there another way you do know about it?”

Suddenly shy, while she did ask such investigative questions to the Lady herself, she held her hand before her mouth: “Oh, am I allowed to ask this? Sorry, my Lady, if I was impolite.”

The Lady laughed: “We are not living under the spell of the Otherlanders anymore! The ones, who did not want to come back to become good Homelanders again, all went with a space-shuttle to a new world, to find out, if there are adventures for them, they do find to their satisfaction.

And a space-shuttle is a machine, that travels to other worlds, that are in the skies,” she explained, seeing the riddle in Petra’s eyes.
“Do ask Nemo about a submarine, and imagine that going through the sky instead of through water.
He will have the answer, I do not have without asking the men.”

Petra said: “If you do not mind, I will go back, and will not wait so long for the answer this time.
There is so much new for me to discover…”
“That you sometimes a little bit do forget, that you still are a girl, a Homelander girl, that cannot solve all by herself.
The same Billy will have to learn.“

She waved, and turned to somebody else, coming her way.
This way Petra knew, that she had gotten all the answers, she could get for now, so to Billy she went.

That evening they did talk softly a long time, after they together had admired the copies of Billies drawing.
Both did put this on a very safe place, for except to Nemo, they could not tell anybody, how they became a piece of such valuable paper.

Most answers had to wait, until Nemo had given his answers too, tomorrow, or the day after…

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