Mysterious messages, tempting treats and difficult dilemmas

 Giraffes were presented with a difficult dilemma when a mysterious message and tempting treats arrived in the classroom.

Offering us the generous gift, the message warned:

Once the first morsel of food passes your lips, you will enter into a bargain with the Teller. 



A good discussion followed and, although some people were still a bit unsure about it, we decided to eat the delicious treats.








It was only when we had eaten the treat that we found this poem.

White roses we follow, towards Teller's Hollow

Dead earth to a spring, the house of King

A sip from the chalice, we enter his palace

Break bread for the Keeper now we descend deeper

Washed clean in his pool we fall under his rule

Away from what is, we all are now his

We were not sure what this ominous and sinister message meant. Then,
Mrs Williams remembered seeing this poem in a book - Paradise Sands by Levi Pinfold. Maybe we will discover the meaning in there...


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