Five

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• Callisto’s Gift    Twelve

  As that was all going on, George and I waited outside the chief's home and snuck in when the guards left to join the angry mob. We went straight to the basement, dodging and hiding from guards all the while. After a nerve racking trip, we made it to where the girls were being held, but we were greeted with the chief instead of a room full of girls. He offered to let us go if we stayed quiet about the whole situation. I went to reject him, but George took advantage of this opportunity and got him to tell us why he kidnapped them in the first place. He told us that "the girls would fetch a high price if sold to the right person" and that George and I "shouldn't stick our noses into other people's busines

• Callisto’s Gift    Eleven

  The chief asked them why they questioned him, and they told him how I claimed to see pirates dragging one of the girls away. They referred to me as a "mysterious traveller." The chief apparently scoffed at that and told them to "bring" me to him as a way to tell them to kidnap me. Donatello and Nathaniel left immediately after that and returned to us to tell us the news. We planned to show the townspeople their chief's true colours after we confirmed that the house I saw in my dream was in fact the chief's home. The plan started the next day with Donatello, Joan, and Nathaniel leading an angry mob of civilians and guards to the harbour to confront the pirates. The pirates denied all claims and that's when Do

• Callisto’s Gift    Ten

  That night, we walked into the most crowded bar we could find and told everyone in there that I knew where the missing girls were. A few guards asked me for proof, and I told them that I saw someone take the girls deep into the woods and I barely escaped with my life when they "spotted" me. When they asked who the kidnapper was, I pinned the blame on the pirates in the area. As I was convincing the people in the bar to join us, a few guards slipped out of the room. We had Donatello and Nathaniel tail them, and they overheard them ask the chief if the girls were still in the basement, to which he confirmed.

• Callisto’s Gift    Nine

  At first, everyone brushed it off as a bad dream that was most likely induced by the trauma I had experienced in the last month and a half. However, I didn't think it was "just a dream." I thought it was a sign of some sort, but there was nothing I could do about it anyway. We arrived at the old lady's (Sage) shop and found quite discouraging news. As fate would have it, Merlin last visited the town decades before I was even born. George and the others turned to leave, but I asked Sage about any young girls who had gone missing, and she confirmed that one went missing only two days prior. I asked for a description of the girl, and it matched the girl in my dream perfectly. She asked me if I had known anythin

• Callisto’s Gift    Eight

  I followed the voice and as I did, the scenery around me changed from darkness to an endless white plain with nothing but well, white. I saw a small corgi in the distance and followed the voice to it. When I got to the corgi, the voice disappeared and the corgi turned to leave. I didn't know what to do, so I just followed the pup. As I did, my surroundings turned into a forest. In a distance, I saw a few guards and hid instinctively, but I saw them put a girl in a shed. When they left, I went to free her, but my hand went through the door. I walked through the door and tried to get her attention, but she couldn't see me. Perplexed, I turned and left to find the dog once more, but the outside was back to the

• Callisto’s Gift    Seven

  Two days passed and Nathaniel was still angry with Donatello for knocking him out and taking him away from the battle. For the sake of breaking the horrible atmosphere, I asked George where we were going, and he told me to check the map. I opened it and it was moving. As in the map was getting smaller with every step the horse took. We stopped and so did the map. We were puzzled by what was happening, but decided to continue along. We set up camp in the woods outside the town the map led to and decided that Donatello and Joan should go and see if he was really there, while we stayed. We figured that no one would notice him with his long hair and disheveled beard. They were back to acting like a married couple as they