Chapter 6

          I turned to Liliana as we both looked up into the tree nervously. Peering down at us was Nixie with a small smile.

“Hmmm, I’m not sure….. let’s go ask the queen, she might have a better idea than we do,” she said gently and began to flutter towards the tree’s entrance.  I will admit, it was quite nerve wracking going into a tree while being led by two fairies who I just met less than a half an hour ago.  We finally made it into the tree where I was literally brought speechless by what I saw.

            The inside of the tree didn’t look like a tree at all, more like a giant wooden tree mansion.  The walls were made out of a golden oak wood, with rows of amber colored hibiscus flowers clung to the vines that spiraled up the walls.  The floor was golden as well with small bits and pieces of topaz stones mixed in until it looked like a personalized marble.  There were giant golden iris, lily, rose, and tulip flower statues in the center of the room and were about fifteen feet tall.  As I continued to look around I saw several fairies bustling around with little sacks on their backs as they came in and out of the tree. 

            Nixie pointed towards the corner of the room and showed me a staircase made of the glass leaves as she smiled at me,

“Let’s go,’ she said signaling me towards the stairs.

“We are going up there?” I replied, looking at both Nixie and Liliana dumbfounded.  They both nodded as I gulped and cautiously made my way over to the stairs.  It felt a bit weird being the only actual ‘person’ in the room without wings or any of that fairy stuff. 

            We began walking up the steps, but every time I stood on one of them, it glowed which I called weird because it didn’t do it to Nixie or Liliana.  When we reached the top of the steps, we stood in front of a closed wooden door with a golden knob.  I looked back at both of the fairies and they shrugged. I then took a deep breath, put my hand on the knob, and slowly creaked open the door.