The return home

Chapter Five: The Forgotten Map of The Fa

ve: The Fo

ilent. Lina sat at the edge of her bed, the new tree-shaped key resting in her palm. It

w we have two keys, a glowing journal, and a r

"I don't know. It's not lik

r creaked open, and Grandma Zawadi stepped in

aid gently, "you a

r grandfather left this with me many years ago

the box was an old compass-its needle rusted, but still t

ammy asked

ned it c

't just

a famil

mes and birth dates, some crossed out, others circled. A trail of symbols was drawn along the outer edges of the t

ina whispered. "This is wh

t wealth was in its story. But the final piece... that he never reveal

eful, my children. The closer you get to the heart o

ap. "It looks like the entrance is somewhere

er. "But there are symbols in the

s like a waterfall. And that.

"If we follow these, w

nd a bottle of water. Then, just before sunset, they left

an Lina remembered from her childhood, but the water still moved swiftly ov

ee-a massive, ancient trunk broken into two hal

d. "There's so

had carved a small alcove, jus

s. But this one was unlike any she'd seen before. Its face was covered in str

oken," S

"It's guiding us...

it abov

edle j

traight towar

vines tangling around their feet. Birds cried overhead, the

tone pillars, each carved with family names. At

epped f

n wildly, then stopped

the moss. A symbol appeared: the same spiral

hing beneath u

d a small indentation near o

r bag and pulled ou

t per

b slid aside, revealing a stairc

red into

?" Lin

h his voice tremble

eir footsteps echoed along the stone steps

they reach

red in more symbols, some glowing fain

d and placed it gen

hrough her palm, and

fe as they stepped forward. The walls were covered in murals-paintings of

It's a history...

tears stin

his is the

r stretched far

't reached th

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