Lost in Colors

Continuation.
Funny that they all were like one bird and they moved and spoke just the same. The anubises perched back up on flamingoes. Gratefully, they ran their eyes around the ghost-city Calico, farewelled and thanked their relatives passed away. And then they rose up in the tender coral sky of dawn.
In less than a few hours they found themselves in absolutely colorless town. All the streets were scattered with the sleeping bodies of citizens, none alive could be seen.
- How horrible! What did Salvatori do with them! He exhausted all colors from them!
- Its all our fault - sighed Stan.
- Its not our fault! And we can save them!! - Arcy encouraged Stan.
- Where can we find Salvatori, now?
- Look there are caravan traces on the road! Lets follow them!
Yes, of course that was the most right decision. The Anubises thanked the gorgeous flamingoes for fabulous support and headed searching for Salvatori on foot.
- Okay, we find him, so what? - Sean was thinking aloud.
- Were gonna say that we want to come back, and play something to redeem ourselves, - offered Augustus.
- Great, Augustus! What are we going to play?
- Something merry, for example.
- So he refreshes himself, starts dancing and then what?
- Um, I dunno
- No, lets start again, different, - Arcy started his idea, - lets start with merry song and then we turn to the sorrowful something, all of sudden. So he is made to feel sorry. Only live melted heart is able to show mercy. We need to wake him up to these very feelings. - Arcy was shining from the genius of his idea.
- Yes! The concept is good. But he hates sorrowful melodies, we wont be able to go on for long, - replied Augustus.
- Listen, the main idea is to distract the Hatter with his Belly, so no-one can stop us! Salvatori cant do that alone. - said Stan.
- I agree, so we can ask the Moon to distract him! - joyfully supported Arcy.
- Thats what we should do!
- I think, weve got a brilliant plan.
But for now - I bet we should take a rest, its gonna be an important day. Anubises, on the quiet, found themselves very tired, and the sun hid itself behind the skyline.
- Lets stay the night there in a tree
hollow, and tomorrow well go in our plan! Since early in the morning we should have studied out the keys of merry and sorrowful melodies in the Book of Emotions, - said Augustus.
- Yes, but first before sleep I would like to drink some hot chocolate.
They settled around the fire but their powers were only enough to watch the dancing flames and sip the chocolate occasionally. This was the deep and pleasant silence among those who were the united ones by a lot. One by one all went to bed. Augustus laid down at the fire under the stars. His thoughts were about that unordinary adventure they had been into for all the time and was grateful deep inside. No doubts in success.

In the morning, after light breakfast they dug into studying the Magic Book. Loads of things there were - emotional mixtures of any kind, the recipes of musical state of any kind, thousand shades of feelings. Augustus was impressed by the beauty and the precision of all these recipes. He had been trying to play various combinations and collocations on his guitar for the whole morning. They took ecstasy, pain, power, sorrow, tenderness - all note by note.


For Salvatori they did choose the 'Heart of Stone- cocktail' - first three-minute dancing part of rhythmic swinging, then shift to lyrical tenderness and finally - sorrowful harmony. To be continued