Chapter 16 - Wellness
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Chapter 16 - Wellness
Taking another close look at the blueprints, I grabbed my phone to share a major brainfart with the Twins. 'Only build and detail the front left quadrant of the building and the garden!' I messaged to my fiancées. When they asked me why, I told them that the whole shebang was symmetrical, so we could save three quarters of the building time by creative copy, mirror and past actions, once we were happy with just that one quadrant.
After some thought, Portia answered that his was a good thing, because it would give us much more time for the secret underground labyrinth that failed to show on the blueprints. We might even get the tunnels as far as Paris and add that Eiffel tower after all, maybe add a subtropic wellness cave at the halfway marker for later private use.
Late on the second night of building (we just did the magic quadrupling trick and were about to go down under) the message bar lit up.
'Who are you?'
In order to keep my true identity hidden to you, my dear readers, I gave the Twins plenty of time to come up with an answer to that question, reasoning that they probably already discussed this eventuality.
'Greetings Earthling, we come in peace. For now.'
(I told you so.)
'That didn't answer the question, did it?'
Sharp observation, I might say. This might be a tricky one.
'We could try War, if that is your preference...' Touché
'Nonono... Peace is fine. It is just that you appear to have accomplished in days what I have attempted and failed to do in over five years.'
'We might be Phaerys.'
'Fairies?'
'No, not those imitations with the cheap spelling. The real thing, with the invisible pink fishing rods to create the illusion of gravity for Humanity. Never mess with us or you could end up somewhere cold and lacking oxygen.' (Apparently those girls read eachother's assignments... I had nearly forgotten about that theory posed by Curious Mary and Annie Mirabili last year. (Annie had turned out to be Sir Isaac Newton's mistress' descendant)).
'Ok... Peace please.' eventually appeared on the message bar. 'Thanks for helping out, but why?'
Well here it comes...
'We Phaerys are going to tell you a story. It could be a love story, if you want to...'
(Silence)
'Once upon a time, in a land that is actually quite close, in a time not long before the present, there were a male and a female specimen of the human persuasion.'
'Is this about Jean-Ettore and me?'
'No, no janitors in this story, as far as we're concerned.'
'That is not what I said. You can see how I typed it, can't you? I definitely didn't say janitor.'
My phone beeped when both of the Twins texted me if I knew the name of the barman. The answer was No.
'Let's call him Ulysses-Theodore for now, so that we can continue. How shall we call you?'