![]() I circled around the Spire, trailing my hand along its seamless joints, across its flawless paint. My cold fingers traced their way across the Spire’s wooden surface as lovingly as they had Alina’s skin. My hand trembled as I reached out towards it. Tonight there’d be no deer crossing signs, no air conditioners, no dates that didn’t line up on a family’s tombstones. It was like when you were a kid, and your teacher had you sprinkle iron filings around a magnet. The Spire was invisibly warping the space around it. There was an energy in the air, an electricity. I approached it with reverence, like I used to approach the tabernacle after receiving communion. I don’t think I’d have seen it all if it weren’t surrounded by a half-circle of withered, long-dead trees that looked as though they’d been rotting for ages.Īll my hair stood on end. The Spire had a clean design: four large, flat faces tapering up to a sharp point, the sort of wooden spire you’d expect to see topped with a cross on a Protestant Church. It stood twice my height, its whitewashed facade nearly invisible against the snow. When I stumbled into the clearing, I almost didn’t see it.Įverything else around me was frosted in snow, but not the Spire. I might have been the first person to walk there since Rob had made his way to the Spire back in late August. I trudged my way deeper and deeper into the woods. Even if I’d wanted to complain, who would I complain to? But like the hike where I befriended Kerry, I kept going. Some snow had made it into my shoes and was melting. Each time I tripped in the dark, I had to pull my hands from my warm pockets to catch myself before I hit the frozen ground. I was on a road and the road would lead me to the Spire, the Spire housed the bells, and no new-growth forest could hide that from me. Everything I saw felt less substantial than what I knew had been there before. It was like the present had been superimposed on the past. The houses loomed on all sides, even if I couldn’t see them, even if decades earlier they’d all been moved or destroyed. The road was real, even if I couldn’t see it. Some of the trees, the ones nearest me, were wrong. The colonial houses, the broad, dirt road I’d seen when the bells rang- I felt like I could still perceive where they’d been. I should have stopped, but I didn’t stop. It looked like when I fell to my knees, my body had been dragged through the snow. I looked around, trying to figure out how I’d gotten so deep into the woods and noticed there weren’t any footsteps behind me. When I stood up, I realized I wasn’t at the shore of the island. What’s death compared to knowing? What was so great about my life that it’d be better than hearing the bells at their source? But when I’m being honest with myself, I know I would have. I’d like to think that if I had, I might not have pressed on. In the end, he’d put a homemade shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Out there, on that island, I never considered for a moment that the bells had played a role, a large role, a huge, monstrous role in his suicide. † Introduced in version 1.2.0 of the Nintendo Switch version.Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7.* Introduced in version 1.1.0 of the Wii U version.Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker / Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo Switch / Nintendo 3DS) A hidden 8-bit Rosalina can be seen walking around in the background of the course.8-bit Luigi can be seen on the central spire when the Multi-Vator moves up.The player has to climb the tower to focus the camera on him. The Pixel Toad is at the top of the central tower. Super Gem 3: Behind the locked door opened by a key below a tower on the right side which must be thrown to the left side.Super Gem 2: Floating outside the center tower the player must pluck a Turnip from a nearby Pluck Patch to obtain it.Super Gem 1: Can be obtained by pulling on a Pluck Patch hidden behind the left center tower it can only be reached by raising it.Three Super Gems can be found throughout the level. (A Gold Mushroom can be found on the right side under a P Switch.) The Power Star is located inside the center back tower, reachable by navigating the two Toadettes to a two-person Multi-Vator. The level is set in a palace at night, and, as the name implies, the player makes use of the Double Cherry by controlling two Toadettes to raise and lower the towers using the P Switches.
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