They say only students can hear it, the Lustaray Clock, hidden deep inside the haunted School of the Arts in Cashes Dade. Late at night, some students can hear it, especially in October. Every tick of the clock sounds like the boom of a cannon. They can hear the other clock hand dragging, dragging slowly going around and around, never ending, sounding like a tragic, ghostly wail over and over. Some students, including Cade and Blake, can also hear the ghost, the one who haunts the Lustaray Clock, the one they say is trapped inside the underground classroom where the massive clock glows dark orange in the dark classroom, set high on the black marble wall. They say there is a dark mystery, a dark secret about the Lustaray Clock. They say you can hear him groaning, groaning with a deep sadness, desperately hoping to escape, desperately hoping to lead someone to enter the school and help him find his way out, or become trapped there with him…
There’s only one way to enter the School of the Arts, through the dark front gate. It’s a confusing, dark twisted school. No one knows how to find the Lustaray Clock. But getting there is only half the mystery, getting out is even more mysterious. There is a secret to finding the clock and finding the way out, a secret the ghost desperately wants to discover. Can you figure it out? We’ll soon find out. But be warned, because the ghost is calling students, students like Cade and Blake, to the school, and you can be trapped in there with him forever if you can’t find the way out.
When you push through, you enter the front lawn covered by heavy, twisted gardens. Then you suddenly find yourself inside, in the garden room. Massive black marble walls rise up really high on all sides with numerous balconies holding twisted dark green trees called Deyvas. Their branches curl around and through eachother with glittering green leaves that whisper in the dark. They seem to grow and stretch around you, closing in on you. Two long dark pools run along the walls with a single round table between them. Large twisted, dead trees grow all throughout the floor holding dark orange-lit candles that whisper when they light up.
The reading room holds massive bookshelves full of large, dusty books. Ghosts appear, glowing in neon green fiery lights, floating up and down the shelves, picking out books, then showing up in the various fancy furniture to read them. There are many pieces of furniture, all with elaborate designs. At the center of the room are two circular couches on both sides of a slick, black chair. It’s best not to disturb them, or they will start whispering to you which might send you to the darker places of the school, where you could be trapped forever…
The ballroom floor has designs of twisted faces, hiding from incredibly tall people looking down at them from high towers, gazing down from the balconies. Dark orange crystal chandeliers float around from the murky ceiling to barely light up the green glowing ghosts dancing to the eerie, off-key music, dancing over the many complicated scenes of politcal debates and battles, and dances and games. Somewhere in the center is the design showing students learning in school. The music can be overpowering, and move you, but it can move you to places you don’t want to go…
The grand auditorium is dimly lit by dark orange lantern lights from the high balconies, where dark ghosts sit waiting to capture any who enter. Every seat displays a different green glowing ghostly face. If you make eye contact with any of them, a ghost will be after you in the dark aisles etched in an elaborate maze. Blood red curtains fly in from both sides across the stage, clashing at the center. When the ghosts begin to sing, the auditorium stretches and stretches seemingly forever, and it is really hard to find the way out…
Cade and Blake are determined to find the Lustaray Clock, which is held in the underground classroom. It’s a dark, empty room with just two rows of empty desks, casting long dark stretching shadows from the dark orange light coming only from the Lustaray Clock. This is the darkest, emptiest room ever found. You feel a heavy despair when you enter here, and a heavy confusion, especially where the crack runs across the floor under the long dark stretching shadows. A sharp, bitter chill fills the room in the complete silence except for the sound of the ticking clock, where the hour hand goes around, forever and ever, never reaching it’s destination. The ghost haunts this room, because he can’t get out, and if anyone enters, he will try to keep them from ever getting out as well…
Someday the students will be called by the clock
To find the dingy classroom closed by a heavy lock
The young student failed in the art school
He tried too much, to make everyone else a fool
But one day he will return, to finish what he begun
He cannot escape, nor can anyone else, until it’s done
The way through is revealed by the name Lustaray
Fight through the heavy confusion to see one way
If you try to see the light all at once, you will fail
Go through the center and you will prevail
They all want to shine like a brilliant light
This is where you will find the way that’s right
But lights only shine in the dark night…
