Silver. Susie Harris
when Gna and the others left this world. She allowed Hov to stay with Michael. They are inseparable. But when Raziel cast the spell, Michael did not recognize Hov and told him to go away. Hov went crazy causing tidal waves and earthquakes across the Earth. Father came and made Raziel take the spell of Michael. He was not pleased that Raziel could perform such a spell over one of his own without his knowledge. Michael himself was furious. But Raziel talked quietly and calmly to them saying that someday this spell will be important. That he had been told by one of the fae seer.
I was shocked at the time that they both forgave him and left it alone. But perhaps he saw things that we did not and shared that with them secretly and that is why they left it be. Perhaps this is what he needed it for...
The knowledge and items contained in the great library would put us all in danger if they ended up in the wrong hands. So I am glad with the disappearance of Gavreel and the others. There is hope of it being safe from anyone trying to use it to his or her advantage. Even though I long to see it again. Perhaps one day.
With all of his knowledge and expertise of magic both light and dark, Raziel is proving very difficult to find. I feel I’m running out of places to look. Perhaps it is time to talk with Michael.
I have decided to talk to the fae first. There is no point in coming out of hiding so openly as to talk to Michael until at least I have some idea of what has occurred in my absence. They are almost as powerful as we are, although they would say otherwise. Of course I am concerned about bringing any threat into the fae's realm. But hopefully they have protection from whatever maybe attacking our kind.
As I said before the fae can be tricky so I have pondered on who may be the safest to contact. After much thought I have decided on contacting Queen Una, in all my past associations with her she was meek, humble and kind. I am ashamed to say I do not even know if she has become a queen officially but she was on the path to marry Redcrosse when I last saw her and Redcrosse did become an autumn king. So I have to presume she became queen. I hope so; she possessed such beautiful very rare qualities for a fae. I believe the fae court would definitely benefit from her quiet guidance.
Now to contact her may be a little more complicated. I know Legolas the elf gave me a spell long ago, which could transport me to any fae as long as I pictured them in my third eye. I only used it once or twice and my memory, though it is very good, I don't want to rely upon it. As one wrong word or mispronunciation could be catastrophic with the fae. There spells can be very powerful and one word can change the result drastically.
I had learnt the hard way turning a friend of mine to stone. This was long before the age of man. Oberon had to be called to reverse it. It was not good.
After this Oberon gave me a book to keep any spells I did learn and it spoke each word separately just by thinking it so no spell would be cast accidentally. I hid this book deep in the Elvin mountains near Lerkalpoldara.
This means I will have to cross into the Elven realm. Passing through these worlds is not easy and I will have to keep my human self-alive. I won't be able to keep my essence tethered to my true form. My connection with my human self will be disconnected while I am in the Elven realm.
I must execute this retrieval precisely and covertly no one can know of my presence. It must be quick with no errors. Cloaking myself in my true form will not be difficult against my own kind but elves...that will be more challenging. Elves see things differently, especially in their own realm. Through Elven eyes you see the aura of a person before seeing them and the energy fields flowing through and around them. Any cloak would be obvious as I tried to move anywhere through their realm. I would be a colorful swirl of energy moving towards the mountains.
The only way I can pull this off is by finding an Elven cloak. These are very rare but when worn no elf can detect you. Now I just have to remember where I saw one last.
All the cloaks I remember are just so long ago. Everyone has moved on to different cities or realms. I'm at a loss at where to look.
I saw on the news today that there is a group of scientists in Karlsruhe, Germany working on an invisibility cloak using nanotechnology. I guarantee they are trying to reverse engineer the one used long ago in the story you refer to as Momataro. The Germans are always trying to reverse engineer everything. If Hitler's engineers hadn't been misled by our kind. The war would definitely have ended differently... so I guess a quick trip to the Karlsruhe institute of technology is in order.
Chapter 6
I love Germany "the nation of poets and philosophers" to quote Wolfgang Menzel. But besides the people it is beautiful. The cities mixing very old structures with ultra modern. The beautiful slanted roofs for the snow to fall and not collect. The majestic mountains and crystal clear streams. Not so much the rivers. The Rhine is quite disgusting with the pollution of man. But even the Rhine retains its beauty in its own way. I have always loved listening to the sounds and bathing in the views, of the amazing composers and painters of Germany both present and past. It is truly enchanting.
I went in the early hours of their morning around 2am. They are on a different time zone to where I live, so I adjusted my visit accordingly. I was hoping that all the scientists were gone by then. As I'm sure you realize, you never know with the academics whether in this world or any. Raziel never followed the light schedules. I think they just work when their mind allows them to. No matter what anyone else is doing.
I was lucky that it was empty, of course there was still guards patrolling the grounds and the cameras. But both of these are not a concern to me when I am cloaked.
I scanned the buildings to see if there was any energy signatures’ coming from the cloak. But if they had it stored facing down there wouldn't be. My next thought was to scan for an iron safe. This is the best way to store anything of the fae, as they can't touch iron. Therefore they couldn't steal it back. I had a feeling the humans had worked that out.
Jackpot! I found an iron safe in a central building. I passed through the walls with ease and found the iron safe in the center of a dull-lit room. Iron does not have any effect on my kind; so passing through it was not difficult. I did not remove the cloak. I just carefully studied it. It's texture, its colors and size. It was beautiful different shades of purple with gold and silver thread intricately woven into the threads. Fae are the most amazing artists with such creative and intricate designs.
Once I had the exact dimensions and colorations. I pulled back and flitted to the closest material store, which luckily was right next to a jeweler. There I created the closest I could to an exact replica. We cannot manifest something from nothing so having the materials was less power to use than pulling all the elements from around me would have been and I didn't want any of my energy signature to remain in the area. It took around a millisecond to form. That did surprise me; my powers are certainly stronger than they have ever been.
Of course it wasn't made with fae magic so it certainly wouldn't cause any invisibility but if you just glanced it. Hopefully you wouldn’t notice any difference. I placed a spell upon it that if touched it would emit a rather large electrical shock.
A spell Loki had taught me. One he loved to torture my siblings with. I weakened it a little. Hopefully it shouldn't cause death to a human but it should stop the scientists getting too close to it until I can swap the original back.
I returned to the institute and made the swap without incident. I did spend a little time looking through their research papers. Their nanotech has come a long way. It is possible they will be able to make one that to humans and possibly even my own kind could make it difficult to see a human. Of course the elves wouldn't be fooled. But all in all not bad work for humans. From the research I believe they wouldn't need to take the original out again but one never knows. One of these scientists may just want to see it again. I hope I weakened the spell enough not to hurt them.
I wrapped the cloak around myself and left the institute. It was around 2:30 am in Germany and since I was so close I couldn't resist dropping in to one of my most favorite places on earth: The Black Forrest. I have always loved sitting at the Triberg falls. The Black Forrest is just such a tranquil place and the music of the falls and the trees is breathtaking. Water has always soothed me