I stare at the pocket door I found for the 4th time and wonder if it is worth it. In our homes we all are taught that pockets are dangerous places, that they are not places for us humans. Unlike many towns everyone in my town knows where the pocket doors are but still no one has ever tried to open one. I think it says something about how feared they are. There are many myths about what exactly is behind the doors but no one knows for sure. Some people say there are monsters that will skin you alive and eat your organs, some people say that the pockets are heavens and pockets doors are impossible to open. But my mom dont believe in any of the myths, she says that behind the pocket doors there is a better world with better people who have wings called Faerie. She says that a long long while ago humans captured Faeries and prisoned them in pockets underground. She says that we should find a way to open the pocket doors and free them. She sent my sister to one of the pocket doors last year. We never saw her after that day. My mom went in 6 months later and I never saw or heard from her after that day either.

I glanced at the door again and took a deep breath.

"You know that you are never going to be able to go in if you keep overthinking?" said Dain from my head. Even though talking to voices in my head would take me to the burning stake very fast, I never mentioned anyone about him so I was still alive.

"Shut up Dain I am trying to not think" i said with irritation in my voice

"When you think about not thinking, is it still thinking or am i overthinking about thinking Rosalinda?" I made a face to the overly complicated sentence he made and decided to ignore him. I took one more deep breath and reached out to the door. A door that could damn me as well as take me to heaven. I thought about all the choices I made until now, all the doors I went through. I thought about all the places the doors led me to, all the people it made me meet. Doors mean different things to everyone but for me they are the start of new experiences. I remember my mom read me once a poem from Jamie Thomas about doors. She talked long about the poem and asked what doors symbolize to me. At the moment they symbolize a passage to the unknown to me. I realized that I got carried away with thoughts and opened the pocket door without thinking more.

"Rosalinda there is something i forgot to menti-" Dains voice stopped abruptly and i started to fall down a big black hole. I was screaming and falling for an endless time until my eyes cleared and I started to see people at the end of the hole.

I started screaming and shouting even more. "GET AWAY FROM ME I AM ABOUT TO FALL ONTO Y-". Before I could end my sentence I fell onto someone hard and we started rolling together.

"What in the world do you think you are doing?" said the person I fell onto with an angry and very very familiar voice.

"Oh my god i apologize so much i hadn't meant to fall onto you" I tried to get up while apologizing endlessly and stopped abruptly when i saw the wings he had back him.

"Ar-are you a Faerie? I stuttered while looking around me. I was in a very dark hall with just a few lights. I looked up and immediately regretted it. There was no sky, we were underground. The hole I fell through looked like it was several miles up. I shuddered with the sight and looked down. So that is what's inside a pocket.

"Of course I am Faerie Rosalinda, what did you think?" he answered me standing up in front of me.

"How do you know my name, where am I and why is your voice so familiar?" I said without stopping to breathe. I saw the moment he realized the mistake he made in his face but he didnt let me read him more.

"Woaw woaw woaw, first of all calm down and breathe. And about your name, I don't know, maybe it just popped to my head like you just popped from the sky and fell to my head?" He took a few steps back and opened his arm while smiling widely.

"To answer your second question: Welcome to Lighthee. And I have no idea why my voice is familiar. Maybe you were imagining about me your whole life?" he said with a joking tone.

I made a confused face. "Lightlee? What kind of irony is it this place is as dark as f-" he stopped me with his hand and said "Rule number one: no cursing here" as i was about to say something more he stopped me again. "Rule number two: don't joke about lightness and darkness. Faeries don't take it well. Rule number three: no humans are welcome here." With the last rule he said I cast a worried glance at the hole I fell, already making plans about how I can make it up the hole before getting killed. There was no i could get back up. Only if I had those wings. I started to slowly back away from him and looking for a damn stair or something to take me back up to the door.

"When I said no cursing I meant it, Rosalinda. And you can't get back to the human world from that door because it is a cursed door, it was made to trapp us inside which means you can't open the door from this side"

"How did you know that I swore? Can you read my mind? And what do you mean curse? Damn curses, I am going back to my world, "I shouted.

"That was the third time and if you swear one more time I am going to make you regret it unfortunately. And yes of course i can read your mind. I can even speak to your mind if I want to, you humans have such weak minds that it is easier than breathing for me. Since you again started talking without breathing let me answer your last question too; unfortunately you cannot open that door even though you want it." I became completely speechless with his explanation and suddenly felt a need to sit down to digest all that new information. I thought about my sister, my mother about what could have happened to them. I realized my mom was right about everything he told me about Pockets. Maybe Faeries kills all the humans who end up coming here. Afterall it is we who prisoned them here underground. Looks like we became the victim of our own cruelty. At least I became one. Now I am doomed to death. Like my mother and my sister.

"Woaw woaw woaw, stop there little human don't be so depressed you are not going to die. I have no idea what happened to your sister and mother but you were lucky enough to meet me and I am not really in the mood to kill little humans today. Now stand up and come with me, we need to hide you if you want any chance at survival. By the way my name is Jaiblynn but you can call me Jai '' he said with a wink. But i was so surprised that i couldn't find a proper answer to give so i said: "Stop reading my mind Jaiblynn". Well done Rose giving aggressive answers to Faeries when you don't know what to say is very smart. Especially if you want to die. While scowling to myself I stood up and started looking at Jaiblynn.

"Well that is a start" he mumbled to himself and we started to walk toward a dark hallway.

I started looking around me curiously trying to discover what this place actually was. We passed a big old door and I had to stop for a second because of the light flooding to my eyes. Other side of the door was very light and luxurious unlike the place I fell. It was as I changed realities on more time. I ignored Jaiblynn laughing at my reaction and continued to walk. With the thought popping to my head I looked up to see if I could see the sky from here but of course I couldn't. Instead there was big lights all over. They didn't look like candles though, I wondered how they were working. We started to go down a stair and I felt a little claustrophobic thinking how far underground we are. The place we were walking through was made of stone and if didn't knew we were underground I would have thought we were inside a house. A very luxurious house. Maybe even a castle. How far down are we going to go for fu- I stopped myself from swearing and looked up to Jaiblynn to see if he was listening to my thoughts.

After a little staring contest he gave up and said: "Look I really don't have any interest in listening to some little human thoughts but it is a little difficult not to listen when you are philosophicating over stones and benign underground or when you are literally shouting at your mind."

I ignored him and tried to call to Dain. Maybe he would have some ideas about how to get out of this place. And that was the time I noticed something; I haven't heard from him since I came to Lightlee. I panicked and started to shout in my mind to Dain but no answer came. Instead Jaiblynn answered me:

"Stop shouting, you are making my head ache and you can't talk to a Faerie from your mind if the other part doesn't want to."

"What do you mean a Faerie? How do you know who Dain are? Dain can't be a Faerie "I answered hysterically. I can't be speaking to a Faerie from my head all my life!

"Oh darling he is definitely a Faerie, humans don't have such powers." he said laughing and finally the stairs ended. He opened another door leading me inside.

As I was about to ask him another question I saw the person sitting in a corner and stopped abruptly. Speechless, I turned back to look at him looking for an answer for this, but he looked completely unbothered and went out of the room.

"This is where I keep my humans and you can sleep here until I find a solution for you. By the way, you are going to stay here with Mari, is it okay?" He looked at me again to see if i have any problem with that and then shut the door. "I am going to come back tomorrow, try the rest now" locking the room 3 times he left the room with me and Mari inside.

I slowly turned back and looked to Mari again trying to see if I saw wrong the first time. But I was right from the first glance. The person in front of me was my lost Mom.