The Witch Within by Iva Kenaz

Author:Iva Kenaz [Kenaz, Iva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-08-03T17:00:00+00:00

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I awake alert. It surprises me how quickly I have gotten used to the fear and the wolf’s companionship. I come back to my senses rather quickly, but then – his eyes open and lock with mine. He looks surprisingly cautious now and clearly confused. It’s time to enter the dark tunnel, I decide, and still facing him, I slowly move toward the hole. I'm about to get a candle, but then his paw stretches and starts groping around, exploring the nearest vicinity. That makes me panic.

I quickly dive into the hole and face the darkness. As I'm crawling, I lower my head, dreading to meet the big black spider. I hope it will just run over me and take no interest in travelling with me in my hair or, God forbid, underneath my clothes. I try to focus on something that could elevate my spirit. Grandmother. The dream I had. She was brave, she entered this tunnel. But God knows what she found here. Just a dull void? Death?

I desperately cling to some brighter thought, though it seems like there are none left. And so I start humming a song that I like; the chirpy rhythm which used to make me want to dance and jump. Even now it manages to make my limbs move faster. But soon it gets harder to move forward and I notice that I have actually been climbing up.

The stones beneath me become more slippery with each and every movement and I struggle to keep crawling. After a while I spot a light ahead of me.

I try hard to not slide back down, until I finally manage to crawl all the way to the end of the tunnel. I fall out, followed by crumbling pieces of granite rocks and mud. I bruise my knees and hands, but fortunately face safe ground. As soon as I catch my breath I lose it again over the splendour! I have reached another level of the cave.

It’s a round-like chamber with a stone well in the middle. There is a small entrance as well, but I don't bother to check where it leads yet, because I behold the painted walls around and above me. With the help of the dim light coming from outside I detect the symbols and letters of the ancient alphabet, similar to the ones I have found in the cave below. My head starts spinning as I quietly marvel over the beauty.

I also observe that there are many unlit candles on the ground and variously shaped and coloured stones. Most of them are stones that I have never seen before and among them are pieces of bones and teeth. I pick a few of the teeth up and find out that some of them are carved with symbols identical to the ones above. I must have found a secret temple belonging to my ancestors! As I ponder it, I hear my grandmother’s voice in my mind, saying:

“As above, so below

Learn the alphabet and behold

As you think, so you act

As you dream, so you live.

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