Responses Archive
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When Amanda first left, Hal warned Nia and Callie not to tell the principal, that this was something THEY had to figure out, and that THEY were chosen by Amanda. Has anyone thought that perhaps Susanna was meant to discover herself on her own? While finding Amanda is important, we shouldn't interfere with Susanna's life. Maybe she knows what the charms mean, and maybe she doesn't, but it is impossible to help someone who doesn't truly want it . . . we need to wait for Susanna to decide whether she wants us to be involved or not. Remember, you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.
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Charms aren't cheap. Thinking back to the Sapphire Diamond thing, could she have used that money to by them? And it wouldn' be hard to use a phone book to find out where Susanna lives, but Amanda must have chosen her for a reason . . .
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I agree with SarahB, the sea glass was probably the sapphire. But where did she get a sapphire? It was obviously worth a lot of money, probably more than $2500. Maybe we need to find out who she got it from, and maybe they have some more clues about Amanda...
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I think maria_haseem is right, and that maybe Amanda liked his quotes. If this Edward Lear is the one that is mentioned in the newspaper article, I don't think he really had anything to do with jewels. I don't know if there is anything about stars or star sapphires in his work, though. Maybe we should check that out? "Lear's nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet's delight in the sounds of words, both real and imaginary. A stuffed rhinoceros becomes a "diaphanous doorscraper". A "blue Boss-Woss" plunges into "a perpendicular, spicular, orbicular, quadrangular, circular depth of soft mud". " {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lear} He was famous for imaginary things, random, made up nonsense. It seems very much like Amanda, very out-there.
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I agree with PenPaper+Ink and RRRules. It's not like her to plan in out, the randomness of everything about her says so. However, for her to do all of this she would require money. There's more to this money, but maybe we're all looking too close, and we need to step back and look at the bigger picture. I feel like there's something there, a reason for the money.
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Someone has highlighted this for a reason. I would check out who this Edward is. Could his name be an anagram? Edward Lear could be "Drawed Real", or "Read Red Law" - could there be a red law book in the library that there's another clue in?
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The only one not in that picture is the Scarecrow, who wanted a brain, so maybe she knows her guides already have that. The fact that Dorothy, Tinman and Lion are still there could be that Callie needs/wants a "home", maybe Nia needs/wants "courage" (to stand up to her mum, the iGirls?) and Hal wants a "heart" (ie. girlfriend, maybe Callie or Nia?). Or perhaps it shows that the three of them already have that, but don't realize, just like the people in the story. Just a thought.