...Continued
The house doesn’t have a name, but it has an age. As rumors say, on the day-after-tomorrow it will turn 100. Its main door from the moment it was born remains open. The house belongs to the “kingdom of open doors”. Its permanent residents – the mice know everything about everyone. They keep an eye on the house and know all the rumors and talking-behind-the-back. They know all the entrances and all the exits, even the hidden ones. They live in the cracks of the house and never complain about them. They know the tram schedule and those who use it.
But apart from that, and this apparently comes as the most important of all: they know the most sacred secret of the block. They have seen what happens when the dim light of the street lamps fall on the closed doors, they have seen what happens when the chained up hand in shackles are about to touch the beloved face. They have seen Veronica. They have seen Mr. Barnes.
Then, during the nights when everyone falls asleep, they sneak into the closed doors and check if everyone indeed has fallen asleep. And because Veronica is awake most of the time, and they know this as well, they stay up watching her and her closed door. They are the ones who actually know, that the room is not locked, it spins around. And the secret it holds lays in the fact that entering from one place you can step out in a totally unexpected place. For instance, once inside, the room makes it round-about. When to step out - is up to you, but where to, is up to the room. This is your game but under conditions of the room itself.
With a strong will you can get yourself out, to the dim light of the street lamps, where the walls of the house whisper quietly: “proceed, you don’t belong here, go away…”
Only that Veronica is not aware of this, she just locks the door. And behind the wall, it’s Mr. Barney, who also doesn’t know the secret, but just as Veronica stays awake almost every night. He touches the wall, puts his ear to it and listening in silence her breathing. He has his own secret, but he never talks about…
Why is this?
Because only love is capable of moving the mountains;
Because only the inner conflict provides you with inspiration;
Because it is the lonely soul that empowers your ability to do things
Because only her heart can bring him back his spring
Because…
And only the mice, the keepers of the house know the secret.
To be continued...
