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The Quest of Reconciliation

By : Tiffany Joyce S

Concealed by the reaching branches of trees on each side, its surroundings
covered in an opaque fog, engulfing anything that enters. Bushes rustled as
something passed, before Audrey could be startled, she had snapped a twig, falling
face first onto the dark forest ground.

There it stood, in the middle of the darkness. The dilapidated face of the house
appeared , the air turned shrill the moment she entered the building, it felt like no
living soul had been in its presence for a while. The wooden stairs creaked with
every step she took.

“Would you stop making noise and get this over with?”, sulked Jeremy, her
life-long nemesis, also her step-cousin.

Shortly after her husband had passed, their grandma married someone new,
without informing the family beforehand. Forced to move on from their grief ever so
quickly, there was now an undeniable gap between these two separate families. Both
were always competing to gain her favor and had subconsciously formed an
unhealthy rivalry between their children as well.

Audrey and Jeremy were both given the same last message in the last
moments of their grandma : “I fear I have run out of time to resolve this issue, I left
an inheritance and you should first find my chest, but remember the quest isn’t
about finding something materialistic”. They both wondered what this meant but
quickly shrugged it off. Before long, this sparked jealousy between the two families,
each pressuring their child to get it all to themselves. Arriving at the attic at last, they
both started coughing and sneezing with the immense amount of dust piling up.

Shining up like gold in a pitch-black mine, the golden-lined chest in the corner
stood out among the untouched piles of boxes. Jeremy’s eyes glistened up as he
slowly lifted the lid, after all, this was what he was after. The gleam in their eyes
instantly left, staring emptily into what looks like a small post-it.

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