The 11-year-old Juliette became an orphan in a car accident
and was placed in a foster family with seven new siblings. All between 10 and 18 years old. Shy but brave she entered the new home. Everyone was looking at her. Two sisters asked her to sit in the middle of the bed. The older boys immediately took a look at Juliette. She was precocious and very graceful. Juliette sat among the girls. Her brother, the smallest, sat at her side. He seemed very shy. Seeking protection from his sister. The two other girls greeted Juliette and her brother and smiled at them. Juliette suddenly became nervous.
It was weird.
Suddenly an insecurity rose up inside her. She felt as if she were being watched. As she looked around the room, she noticed the surveillance cameras on the ceiling. It was weird. A strange feeling rose up in Juliette. Was this a prison for youth. Actually, she wanted to immediately turn her bundler over and run out of the house, when the new foster mother came in at the door. At that moment she became aware that she was to go to a new school. It was a kind of disciplinary school. The foster mother, called the matron, entered the “I have many things to do,” she said, and she left the room.
She instructed two of the older students
to take the new ones to their rooms and show them around. Juliette and her friends entered a new school. She was hoping anyway. Juliette didn't know then that she would never see her friends again. An adventure lay ahead of her. She thought of the adventures she had in common with them. This is your room, Juliette. And your little brother's. 7:00 a.m. is day watch, lunch, 7:00 p.m. is dinner. Don't make any mistakes and behave properly or Auntie O will send you to the basement. The children sat in the basement for the next 2 weeks. It was the standard punishment for newcomers. You should see the whole house.
The next morning Juliette and her friends
went to the fort and said good morning to Auntie O. Auntie O commented this with a stern look. She wore horn-rimmed glasses and a horse-tail hairdo and held a riding crop in her hand. She tied the children's hands behind their back and marched them down to the basement. Juliette resisted and her brother cried, but Oberin grabbed the two and dragged them into the cellar. Lesson one. Preventive punishment ensures the best discipline. She let go of Juliette and pointed with her riding crop at the gray-haired O'Malley.
She let go of Juliette
and pointed with her riding crop at the gray-haired O'Malley. She was a large, beautiful, dashing woman in a man's fur coat. The old janitor was not what he claimed to be. As Juliette stood alone in the cell with the janitor, the old man suddenly changed into a big beautiful woman in a fur coat. She looked like a sorceress. "Oh, Juliette," she said, "I am so sorry that I had to do this to you. Juliette didn't understand. She asked fearful, who are you? "Don't worry, child, I will take care of you." Every time you are at this place in the cellar I open a portal to another world for you. Another dimension. Look, it's paradise.
You'll be safe there.
And I will tell you everything you want to know about your life before you were born. I will protect you. Suddenly the beautiful woman turns back into the old gray-haired grumpy janitor and leaves the cell. The portal in the room is open. Julie Who was not afraid of anything. And Juliette was no longer afraid either, for she knew that nothing would happen to her brother either. Then she stepped curiously but carefully through the portal into a new world. It was a beautiful world, full of wonder and magic.