Chapter 18

Esmia woke up.

"Ugh, I feel dizzy," She said out loud. She gets up and looks at the throne.

"Anna!" She exclaimed. Esmia looks at the two torches.She thinks for a second. She blows the right one then the left one. A clicking noise plays and two more torches appear. The torches light themselves.

"Now there's two on each side of the throne! How am I supposed to figure out which one to blow out first?!" groaned Esmia. Running steps are then heard.

"Great! More morons to deal with! I'm not actually in the mood to kill!" yelled Esmia. The door in the back right part of the room opens.

"Esmia!" yelled Betty.

"Betty!....Who are they?!" asked Esmia quizzingly.

"This is Zaron and Eve," said Betty.

"We need to find Anna. Where is she?" asked Eve.

"Behind this throne, leads to the balcony. These torches must be blown out in a specific order, but since I was last here, they changed the pattern!" exclaimed Esmia. Betty walks up to and examines it.

"Huh," said Betty.

"What is it?" asked Zaron.

"There's a symbol on each one of these..." said Betty. Eve, Zaron, and Esmia gather around to look.

"Maybe if we decode these symbols, it'll tell us which order to blow them out in," said Eve.

"Hmm the symbols on the left two are: | and £" said Betty. "They look like a 1 and a 2."

"Yeah, and the one on the right shows: § and ¥. That could be a 3 and a 4," said Zaron. "Wait a minute...on the throne, there is really tiny writing."

"What's it say?" asked Betty.

"I dunno, it's all weird, look" Zaron pointed to the writing. It said:

wolb meht tuo sdrawkcab

ot nepo htap

-Riven

"It's...BACKWARDS!" exclaimed Betty. "Look at the word '"htap.'" It's spells "'Path'" backwards! So let's see...Ah ha! It says:

Blow the candles out backwards to open path

"What's Riven mean by backwards though?" asked Esmia.

"I think the order would be four, three, two, one," said Eve. Zaron nods. Esmia blows them out in the same order and the throne turns into the wall.