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It felt as though they had been up in the air for an eternity by the ti of aéroplane as it banked to reen and lush and as you looked at it frole it looked like a heart shapedlike the blade of a sword The water around the island was so crystal clear you could see then sand bars below, and the brightly colord fish as the swam As they came in closer Alannah was actually excited about the possibilities that lay in store for her, and for the first tio of Nicolò's hand They both looked out theas their journey was co to an endThe more they flew over the island itself the more she noticed it wasn't heart shaped at all, but shaped more like that a sea horse She spotted the pond in the middle of the island that the pilot had talked about, she could tell that he was indeed getting ready to drop the, he flew the aéroplane deep into the valley until they cae of the island, the island was indeed beautiful, full ofshe saw the pond the pilot had told them about, the pond was in the e stone Chateau at the far end and a wide open area of fields, farht the plane down on the pond and Alannah caught a gli hills covered in dense forest, terraced farrasslands bordered on all sides by the forest She looked up at Nicolò and said "Can you believe this place? It is nothing like e had in Dalkey, there are no roads here, no cars, nothing" she mused absently "And best of all the air is so clean here, this place is beautiful, perhaps it won't be so bad after all"

Upon reaching the dock of the pond and securing the plane to the , and as his two passengers got out of the plane and started looking around, he quickly found the coin purse and relieved it of thehe kneas his best chance ofthe supplies that Nicolò had purchased before they left and handed them out of the plane, next he handed both Nicolò and Alannah's traveling bags to Nicolò "You will need to wait here," he said pointing at the bench by the pond "I am sure that solance in the direction of the Chateau, and with that the pilot hastily untied and re-boarded the plane and he was gone Alannah watched as the plane bounce across the water and took off, her last connection to civilization