29 September 2012
The spirits are waiting... ----------------------------- Intro ------ 'All the boy's and girl's in the graveyard were shouting, but Makio could no longer hear them. She was stuck in a mind of her own, she could hear deep rasping sounds , the breath of the creatures which had once been human but weren't any more.... ----------------------------- Chapter one The spirit bridge
Makio stood there, nervously by the narrow stones of the bridge, chewing a clove of garlic and clutching her fist in the other hand. That morning she woke and happily told her self, ' today will be the day il cross the bridge, just one step at a time no need to think about the evil spirits lurking on the other side beneath the old crumbled head stones and in the shadows.Just set her sights in the opposite bank of the stream and cross. The happiness stayed with her for a while she munched a couple of dried berries and then fetched a bucket full of water from the village well. Makio smiled as she dressed her younger sister, kieasha , and then helped her mother cook Breakfast for the rest of the family. She laughed as she was running and skipping towards the graveyard with kieasha, Makio imagined how surprised all the other children would be to find her perched on the top of one of the headstones talking to her sister. The laughter faded as they passed four very mean looking trees which formed the rear gate of there village. Snarling, scary, demonic faces had been carved into the bark of each of the four trees, and the grooves had been filled with blood red and bright yellow paint to wore of any strong spirits that could pass the flicker of a stream. Most of the spirits if the graveyard could not pass the stream only the strong and pure evil ones that may approach the village at night could. Makio knee she couldn't look at the trees, they always scared her. But as usual her eyes couldn't let her pass with out a quick glance. When she saw there demotic faces her stomach began to crunch and she walked a bit faster. Surely it must be her imagination as she thought there jaws widened and there eyes narrowed at her.she walked less confident after that beside her younger sister kieasha.
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