"Wait for the dawn, because we're not coming back before. Only if you look for us with the right heart you'll get an accurate glance, foes don't waste your time, because you won't get your catch" was written in an old parchment, nailed to the wood door.

George kept repeating the same words over and over, without any result. It hadn't worked when he yelled them, it hadn't worked when he sang them with the first sunshines of the day, and it surely hadn't work when he danced around the door while chanting it. He and Kaylin had ran out of ideas.

"You know? It is becoming less interesting every time we try" said Kaylin
"How come you say that? This is like the only interesting thing we have done in the whole summer" he said, while remembering milking cows with uncle Jerry
"But, its not even filled with weird words in Latin and stuff, I'm starting to believe this is just a loose of time" said Kaylin, while staring at the mysterious carved door.

It was indeed a really beautiful carving, it showed numerous small parts, that together formed a tree, but separated they were little pieces of a story-puzzle. The whole cottage was still really beautiful, just like a hundred years ago, but now it looked worn out by time. Giving it a mystical look.

"You can't back down now! You saw what happen in there when we went in by the window" said George
"Yes, about that, I'm not sure it wasn't just you playing funny" she answered, unsure, as she always was.
"Well, then i'm some pretty good magician, because that cat turning into coins was a little too elevate for my mirror tricks" he said, and it was quite true, George was very interested in the illusionists, but his skills went until being able to pull coins out of someone's ear, not to actually make a black cat attack two teenagers, to then become a pair of coins of the 19th century.

"Is that, George, you have to admit it, what happened in there was quite really unbelievable, and i don't mean unbelievable like the Beatles unbelievable, i mean literally. All the weird stuff in there, and those old golden devices that we had never seen." she said, it was notorious that she was intrigues, but worried.

"And that's precisely the reason why we are doing this, back at home we don't have this kind of fun, at least Vermont is pretty boring the entire year" said George

"Well, you know Connecticut is not the funnest place on Earth" answered his already irritated cousin.

"I'm sure this is an old gypsy house, probably belonged to an old family of ancient inventors and alchemists who protected their house from foreigners with powerful devices and spells" suggested the creative boy

"Yea! and probably they cooked with the fire the could throw from their hands. Don't be silly, maybe its an abandoned mirror house or something" answered the practical girl

And as if he had heard some supportive answer, George went on "Maybe its because we're americans, probably even spirits know our kind, maybe if we brought Victorie... " he said while he kept thinking

"Maybe that's a great idea, bring a five year old to some abandoned house in the middle of the woods, you can tell uncle Jerry we just want to teach her how to survive in the wild!" said, again sarcastic, again practical Kaylin.

"I'm just saying, probably by foes they mean outsiders, perhaps people who seek to capture them, as it says there 'because you won't get your caught', probably they were gypsy thieves, I insist, lets bring Victorie, after all she is our cousin too, you know?" said thoughtfully the boy

"Yea! lets just explain we have been coming the last week everyday to the woods to break into an abandoned house, got attacked by owls and a coincat and that now we're trying to bring the old spirits back because of what some old parchment says! It will be easy, uncle Jerry is o reasonable, as well as Clémence, I bet she will be cool with us wandering around the woods" said Kaylin, she was having a bit of a mixed feeling of desperation, frustration and curiosity towards the house.

"Well, we've spend a whole week of our summer in France to investigate some 'old abandoned' house, we might as well finish what we started and see how this works, and see them" said the hopeful Fournier

"Let's say we bring Victorie, do you really think a five year old will be of any help in the middle of nowhere to try to open a door, of a house in which we've been attacked? What makes you think any of this is mysterious, maybe the cat thing was because it was dark and we couldn't see, and that note was put centuries ago, I mean people used to talk funny" said the older cousin

"O right! they just left a note saying they'd be away a few days, two hundred years ago, and the writing is still legible" said George

"If it will make you quit this, ok, I'll try my best to make Clémence and uncle Jerry let us bring Victorie" said the permissive girl.

"Finally, some reasoning" cried George
"Don't push it"

Later, when they were back at their uncles' house they tried to persuade them.


[wait until the dawn of monday]
By I'm the penguin