Hal Bennett
It’s a good thing Nia remembered to go check out the bookstore like Madame Zee said! Apparently I forgot to tell her about it in the first place—and I know I got off easy about that, because it’s, um, not exactly pretty when she gets mad—but it looks like, thanks to you guys, we may have uncovered something pretty interesting!
You guys seem to think the postcard and the book are connected, and we agree. So, we started flipping through the book looking for other clues, as emilys861 and luna*zeus suggested.
We found some pretty cool stuff! Tiffany923 told us to look in the margins for notes, and we found plenty. Scribbled along the sides were personal comments, like, “I once helped Nanna Dot build a scarecrow” and “This scene reminds me of that song, ‘Hit the Road, Jack!’” One page even had a recipe for apple turnovers (huh?)! But the most random thing was that the notes were in three totally different handwriting styles as if they were written by three different people. One of them matched the handwriting in the inscription—very old fashioned, too. It was faded like it was written a long time ago—not like Amanda’s writing at all.
As for the message, the name “Meg” definitely rang a bell, and after emilys861, invisible, _Sakura_, and stef_stone brought up the postcard Amanda left for us, we fished it out and had another look at it. As you guys may remember, on the front is a scene from the movie version of the Wizard of Oz, and on the back is the note, “Meg knew she had to search. Think about IT. –M”. The first time we saw the note we were baffled, but eventually, we pieced together the meaning. Or at least we think so.
This is how Callie describes that day:
“Wait a second!” She dashed out of the room and almost before she was gone, she was back, carrying a book. “Meg. It. IT.” She looked fro me to Hal. “Don’t you get it?”
I still had no idea what she was talking about, but Hal was smiling. “Nia, you’re a genius.”
She shot him a flirtatious grin. “I know.”
“Okay, would one of you geniuses mind filling me in here?”
Nia held up the book so I could see the title. “A Wrinkle in Time,” I read off the cover. “By Madeleine L’Engle.”
“Which is what the M is for,” Nia explained. “Before the card got ripped, it must have said Madeleine L’Engle.”
When neither she nor Hal elaborated, I said, “And…”
Nia flipped through to the end of the book. “Meg and her brother go to search for their missing father. He’s being held hostage by this enormous brain on an alien planet.”
“Um, you’re saying Amanda’s being held hostage by an enormous brain on another planet and she wants us to search for her?” Was I the only one who found this interpretation of her note just a little ridiculous?
Nia looked up from the book. “You’re kidding, right? I mean, tell me you can see that you’re being just a tad literal.”
“But it is a message that we’re supposed to search for her,” said Hal. “I’m sure of it. Follow the yellow brick road. Think about IT. Meg knew she had to search. All signs point to Amanda wanting us to look for her. I can’t believe I didn’t figure it out earlier.”
Stef Stone had the good idea to check out some other Megs, like maybe the Meg in Inkheart (love that book), which we should definitely do. Research is excellent. And I am sure we all have those books on our shelves, or can get to some.
But I’m kind of going with this idea: if the Meg in the inscription is the same Meg from the postcard, then who is the IT? The first time I read that message I got chills up my spine. Of course we aren’t dealing with an alien planet bent on mind control, as Nia pointed out, but there is definitely something weird going on.
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