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Emma Bloom

  • Jacob Portman
  • Sep 4, 1940
  • 2 min read

Day 1

I made it to the island with my dad. Although my mom was skeptic at the beginning, she later realized that she would have the whole time to herself and let me go to the island. Strangely, my therapist thought it would be good for me. So here I am. In a sketchy island with an attempted ornithologist of a dad trying to find a bunch of people that should be dead. Sometimes I wish that Aunt Susie hadn't found that book by Emerson that sent me on this search, but I know in the end it's best that I did.

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Day 2

I've convinced my dad to let me explore, but he said that I have to go with someone who knows the area. I bought some boots of a fishmonger, and his son and his friend started to guide me through the forest. On the way to the bomb wrecked orphanage, my guide and his friend tripped me and left me there. I continued alone, praying that I would find something useful at the end of the road. When I arrived at the house, it was nothing like I expected. Grandpa Portman told me stories of a magical place that was happy, but this was a graveyard. The building was in ruins. There were scorch marks everywhere, and the wood looked like it was about to give way. As I explored the house I tried to imagine the kids, not knowing they were about to be killed by a Nazi bomb. As I walked into a particular room, I immediately recognized it as Grandpa Portman's room. I looked through some more photos, similar to the ones he would show me as a kid. I explored the house some more, eventually going into the basement. There, I found more photos, but as I looked through them, a girl appeared holding flames in her bare hands. I wanted to talk to her, to tell her that I was Abe Portman's grandson, but I couldn't speak. She ran away, so I tried to catch up. She ran into a cave where I lost her. Giving up, I walked back into town and to the hotel where I stayed, but I soon discovered that I was no longer in the same time. I was September 3, 1940, the day that Grandpa Portman told me before he died. The girl with fire, Emma Bloom, and the invisible boy, Millard, saved me from some angry folk. Although Emma didn't trust me at all, they brought Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children where she explained me everything.

There's peculiar children everywhere across the world who are shunned by everyone who's "normal". Therefor, ymbrynes, women who can turn into birds and create "time loops", find peculiars around the world and bring them to their time loop where they don't really age. Miss Peregrine told me that my grandpa was a peculiar who lived there. Although it was great I eventually had to leave, but at least I left with Emma Bloom trusting me a little bit more.


 
 
 

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