The next day Mark Vicky and Bob packed up everything and the Roadhouse had been quiet ever since last night so no more magic no more ghosts but they knew something was special here and Mark had a feeling that Bob the magically happened when he was around so they were going to keep him as their lucky charm so they decided let's go for that walk up into the bush

so after they packed all their stuff up but left the heavy stuff at the roadhouse they went for a hike they were on the side of a mountain and each Roadhouse showed a map that led up into the mountains and they kind of all led to the same area once you realized it so they found behind the Roadhouse a very very small animal path that you would not even know is there unless you were looking for it and you had to be at least 5 ft into the bush before you'd even see it

once you saw it you knew something was weird because there was just no trees there was plants and everything but there was no trees in this one line and it was just enough for about a width of a human being's hips

when Vicky noticed it she called everybody over and as they looked at this Trail they were all little puzzled because this was a world where they didn't have technology like lawn mowers or weed wackers someone would have to come here and do this manually and this look like not a groom Trail but just it was planned like this was not? this was abnormal .

They hiked up the mountain for about 2 hours and what they found at the end of the trail was not 100% unexpected it was a cabin if you would call it a cabin there was half of a cabin but it looked like it came right out of the Rock so as they got near to it they noticed that there was no front door so they looked in

what looked back at them scared the living crap out of all of them cuz it wasn't what you would expect the inside of the cabin look like it was not a cabin it was a roof over the entrance to a cave

and in that cave bigger than a human being was a spider but the spider was wearing knitted cloth pinks and blues so very unnatural until it waved at them and in a very broken Voice it said hello

this freaked out Mark Vicky and Bob but they were so freaked out that they just didn't move and the spider just said okay I'm going back to knitting and literally was knitting clothes inside of its little cabin in its cave it was very odd because the spider was normal and non-violent which is odd the only monsters they knew of were in the wild and would come in and kill animals so to have a talking spider their whole world just got thrown upside down

it wasn't until the spider heard a Marvel in a little machine inside the cabin move did it get excited and you could hear it in the spiders voice

as three marbles in this little machine moved on their own into three spots inside the machine the spider looked at it and kind of read it like a Ouija board

the spider said out loud oh I think I understand these three are your friends and they're here to see you okay I'll be nice to them

Bob looked over at Mark and asked who's the spider talking to?

the spider overheard Bob and said do you not know of the spirit of the mountain?

it just clicked for Mark and Vicky was still a little out of it being so freaked out by the spider but Mark went oh that's What was making all the magic at the roadhouse yesterday it was the spirit of the mountain if I'm right

the spider it was still holding its little machine and another marble moved into a spot and you heard a little click as the marble fell into place the spider looked down and said yep that was the spirit of the mountain.

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What happened next literally shook Margaret?to the core becausein her little cabin on the wall,was a marble the size of a human head, but it was inlaid into the wall. It can only move up and down, and it was really weird. It was just like it was perfectly carved into stone and you could never have it fall out. It had the edges wrapped around it so that it could go up and down and only thatSo think of a very large metronome kind of machine andit never moves until that.dayAnd that's when the spirit of the mountain lifted up that marble gently and then dropped it that.thud from that stone made Margaret's head whip right around and look at the stone.

Vicki looked at Margaret and asked what was that.

Margaret so freaked out not even thinking just answered the question. I worked with the dungeon a long time ago to make these little devices so I could understand what it wanted and all it has to do is move a marble into the answer it wantsbut it also made a couple of these really big marbles here, but these.ones were if an emergency happens, you'll hear this one. If this is happening, you'll hear this one. They're very rare that I've ever heard one of these being used.And the one that just was used.was family.but only one use of it. So only one of you is familyWhich one of you

The last little bit was said.almost not with venom, but with pure not dislike or untrust, but just the need to know which one was the family member.Her family, the spirits of the mountain's family.

As you can guess, Mark and Vicky both went up and nothing happened. But when Bob went up, the marble didn't go up a little bit. It hit the **** roof, came down so hard it shattered.

Margaret jumped out of the way as it came down from the flying debris and was freaked out. So yeah, Margaret realized that Bob was her new family.in a weird way, she realized she wasn't alone any more. She had one more person in her family other than just her in the mountain.

Bob didn't know what to.make of this.butWhen Margaret started talking and explaining more about the mountain and the spirit in it, and then the moment she told him about the dream with the old man on the log.Bob knew instantly she wasn't lying, and he remembered his part, and he told her his part of his dream. Vicki and Mark were real freaked out at this. And at this point they were not interested. They were getting unhappy, but they were happy for Bob, but they just, this was way out of their pay grade. They were not comfortable with this, not this was not their life. They had done their adventuring. This is.This is above their pay grade. They just wanted to go get drunk at this point.

Bob could read the room. He was at least good at that, and he had calmed down enough to realize that he had to get away from here because he didn't know what to do or what to say, but he knew one thing to do and that was ask his mom and dad for help.

Bob very politely looked over at Margaret and said I hope you understand I'm going to take these two back and I have to go talk to my parents and if they say it's OK, I'll come back and we'll talk some more.

Margaret was going to protest for a second there, but all of a sudden all the marbles.that around Margaret started to just gently movein all of their spots.

Margaret knew this was how the dungeon was trying to get her attention and say, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Margaret realized this and calm down and said I understand I will be here when you come back.But if you don't come back before it gets cold, I have to go into the mountain where I live. So come.So come here and she pointed at one of the marbles on the wall.and said take this marble and push it through that hole there. And if you have to use a stick but shove it through the hole so it rolls past there. OK, that's how you get a hold of me while I'm inside.

Bob thought that was absolutely odd, but understood and said, okay, thank youAnd just turned around, and Vicki and Mark, who had been to kind of passengers in this conversation, just kind of followed along behind him and said goodbye andbefore.they actually leftone last marble moved into the Ouija board and moved over to two different spots, and it just kept on going back from spot 1 to spot 3 to spot 1 to spot 3.

When they all heard the sound, they all looked over at Margaret, who was looking down at the Ouija board. And then.put it down, walked kinda three feet to the left, over to a cupboard, opened it up, pulled a little Bundle.of something made out of yarn and handed.it handed it over to Vicki and Justice said as a going away gift. Congratulations.

Vicki knew what those words meant, so she just took the bundle and said thank you and bowed out.

Mark on their way down, asked Vicky what that was about because he was a little confused.and she hit him in the arm.in the arm almost freaking hard enough to leave dents.

You idiot. You forgot to take your birth control, didn't you? She asked him.

He looked her dead in the eyes and just said **** 0.****

So Mark and Vicky definitely were not going on adventure now because they are just supposed to start the adventure of parenthood. Yay for them, giggles. Ha ha ha.

So the three of them came down from the mountain, took some time at the roadhouse to get cleaned U an, ready to go, and they just bailed back to town. Honestly, they didn't even sleep the night. They just got all the way back to town. Vicki and Mark left Bob and Bob took his horse and basically.went home. He had to talk to his mom and dad and explain what was going on. And he was vibrating. He was so.freaked out knowing that his dreams were real.And there's something else going on. And there was a spirit of the mountain. And there was magic and he was justthe Energizer Bunny on crack cocaine with a side order of good chocolate. He was just buzzing.