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"Yes!" replied the young man surprised. "You’ve obviously heard about us."
"Of course! Who hasn’t? Everybody is talking about your presence here.
Aren’t you aware of the importance of you being here? My
name is Twam and I would be honored if you accepted my invitation to
follow me to a certain place that I would like to show you."
Dan glanced at Elina; she nodded in silence. He accepted the offer.
Twam took them down a narrow path they followed until they
arrived at the bottom of a mountain, which they climbed. They ended
finding themselves facing a long corridor that guided them to a
spacious room lighted by a white light which did not seem to have an
origin. On one side of the room, a stone with engraved writing on
the front that was similar to but larger than the talisman had been
placed inside a heart shaped notch in the wall. On the opposite side,
books of the same size were lying on the floor carefully arranged on
a light blue carpet. Elina headed toward them while Dan and Twam
were caught up in conversation. She grabbed one of the books and examined
it. She remembered having seen identical ones in the
library at the large white house. Golden letters on the outside hard
cover spelled her and Dan’s name. With astonishment and curiosity,
the young girl opened the book. But suddenly as she was about to read
its contents, the book ignited in flames, forcing her to throw it on
the floor. The stone on the wall and her talisman started shining a
bright glaring light. Abruptly and without warning, a storm happened in
the room which immobilized Elina against the wall. Twam and Dan alerted
by the noise, turned toward her.
"We must immediately go out!" uttered Twam, who guessed in a second what was happening.
Dan ran to Elina, who still could not move and drew her to the way out.
The storm doubled in strength and made it hard for the two of
them to breath and move. They finally made it to the door which closed
violently once they passed through it. Twam stood the whole
time by their side. Once out of the raging room, they took the time
to take hold of themselves and bring their breathing back to a calmer
rhythm. The young man lifted his eyes up and looked at Elina.
"Are you all right?" he asked in between two breaths.
"Yes . . . I’m sorry," she said as she turned to Twam.
"You don’t have to apologize," he replied. "This room is my responsibility
and I should have told you about those books. It is my mistake
and I’m sorry. The books in that room are sacred and only masters have
rights to them."
"One of them had our name on it," Elina said. "I was curious to know what was in it."
"Fortunately, you were stopped before you had the chance to read anything.
You mustn’t find out what’s in your sacred book. If you did
so, the impact on this world and the one you are from would be disastrous.
It would defeat the purpose of your life if you happened to
read the book. Your life would immediately be taken by Life itself.
Do not see it as a punishment but more as a necessity."
Elina felt an uncomfortable feeling at the thought of such repercussions if she had read even one line.
"Those books are changing constantly according to the individual choices
made. There is an even greater one that gathers all the small
ones. It is also in constant change. The results in each chapter are
assured no matter what choices are made by each person. Only
the length of each chapter varies according to the choices made by
the individual concerned."