Chapter 1

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.