Episode #30 Heading on over to the garden

You run back to the Lodge to grab Jordan, “Jordan, want to come and look around the village? I found a garden there, lets go look for the Golden Key!” With a mental note of golden key activated, with a grin, you head for the pathway through the Village. “Hey Jordan think we will ever find that Golden Key?” Chasing after you, “I sure hope so. It did say to work with nature to find one, maybe it would be a great idea to check that old garden out?"

Suddenly there before you, a deadly bright reddish, orange aura starts radiating from the ground up behind the shell of the Church standing among nothing more than weeds. “Wow look at that sunset, it has such an inviting warmth. Let’s go!” You pick up your pace down the path to the Church. As soon as you step off the path you see a note hanging in midair, as though it should be hanging on the door of the Church. You move closer, Jordan right next to you.

It reads: Rules of Entry, Wipe down doorways with duster, Sweep floor with straw broom and Dust pews with soft cloth. Jordan barely squeaks out, “Can you see that note?” “I sure can but not sure how to follow the rules with the Church in this type of disarray, any ideas Jordan?”

“Not really. Why are you so okay with this?”

"Well to be honest Jordan, I’m not okay with this. But I do think that Golden Key is back there in the garden, so come on lets pretend we have what we need to follow those rules,” pointing at the note hanging in midair.

Jordan pretends to pick up a straw broom and starts mimicking sweeping the front entrance way to the Church. You pretend to grab a feather duster and start dusting nonexistent doors placing it on an old shelf, on way into Church. Jordan continues pretending to sweep through entire Church leading into the possible backdoor entry stopping, turning to watch, while you continue pretending to dust pews with a soft cloth.

You then further continue on to pick up a pretend feather duster, dusting doors before setting it down next to pretend cloth and walking through the door frame. Commenting, “Well Jordan, that didn’t seem to do much, did it? Work with nature, that’s what it said right? Maybe we should pull some weeds, there is more than enough to choose from.”

“Might as well, right, something has to work?” Jordan answers with a question as she kneels down on the hard, cracking dirt covered with dried up old weeds.

You feel the warmth of the sun becoming more intense while kneeling across from Jordan. Noticing she has yet to get one weed to release it’s death grip. You reach over to help, grabbing the same weed and pulling with all your might too.

"Wow, this thing is never going to let go.” Noticing a small bucket sitting next to an old well hand pump barely attached to the ground, you stand up walk over and start moving the handle of the pump up and down, faster, and faster until water starts spitting out into the bucket. “Hey Jordan, there is water in this old well, lets try watering the weeds first. You know like pretending its a garden.”

Jordan runs over to help, picking up the bucket once full, heading back to the pile of weeds. “Hurry Jordan, run there’s a hole in the bucket!”

By the time Jordan gets to the weeds the bucket is almost empty, only a small trickle of water finds its way out dropping on only one weed. Like magic the weed comes back to life. Surprising the hell out of you both, sitting on the ground looking at each other with bewilderment.

“What the hell just happened Jordan?” “Why ask me? I have no clue! You’re the one who wanted to come in here.” “Okay, okay lets not get upset with each other over something that you kind of need to witness. Let’s just try pulling this weed that came back to life.”

Again, you both reach for the weed, pulling with all your might, getting tossed back on you asses, the weed now rests in your hands, then it disappears! A golden light begins to shine so bright it makes your eyes close. Slowly you open them, realizing the bright light is coming from the Graveyard, and there it is, a bright golden key hanging in a tree! Opening your eyes, with one hand you grab Jordan’s elbow, “Jordan are you alright. I think we just found the Golden Key!” You point at the tree in the Graveyard, showing her where you see the golden key hanging.

Together you walk up to a podium with a golden lantern sitting on it and wooden matches in a waterproof case next to the lantern. You remember the rules of lighting a candle and leaving flowers, as you light the lantern. There is only one flower growing in the Graveyard, so you pick it, taking it with you to the tree. When laying the flower on the grave site you notice the names, Mother Alice, Father Jean, and daughter Alice Jean. You say a prayer and reach for the Golden Key hanging from a branch on the tree.

Jordan stands right next to you, “Oh my God, it is the Golden Key! Now what?”

Before you can even respond, poof you find yourselves teleported right into a very dark, musty smelling and cramped space. “What the hell happened? Where are we? Jordan are you still with me?” nervousness can be heard in your voice as you wrestle around inside your backpack trying to feel for your flashlight, turning it on immediately shining it around. “Jordan?” Where the hell did, she end up? Where the hell did you end up?

Want to find out what happened to your Buddy Jordan or investigate the dark cramped, musty smelling, space you guys just fell into, where it leads too? Where you both are? Or is you will find the secret door now that you have your key, before running out of time?

SIMPLE ENOUGH, JUST RUN ON OVER TO EPISODE #13

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