Mirabel shoves open Bruno's door, revealing a dusty, dark ante room. In front of them, sand spills in from above, creating a curtain of sand, they aren't able to see beyond.

    "Casita, can you turn off the sand?" Mirabel looks back at the door.

    Nothing happens. Alana and Mirabel see the floor tiles go up, as if telling them that it cannot help beyond this point.

    "You can't help here?"

    "Each room it's it own world" Alana murmured looking at the sand, entranced.

    "We'll be fine. I need to do this, for you, for Abuela... maybe a little for me" she encouraged herself "Find the vision, save the mir-ack!"

    As Mirabel steps through the sand fall she falls, Alana, scared as she disappears, follows suit and also falls. Mirabel falls face first while Alana slides, they weren in a giant sand dune.

    "Whoa!"

    There is a sign reading Your Future Awaits, which points to the top of the room; hundreds of stairs lead all the way up. They look up, astonished at the trip ahead, and suddenly Antonio's toucan flaps down next to them. It smiles and squawks.

    "This isn't what I remember the room was like" Alana is already dreading the thought of climbing up the stairs.

    "Hello, lotta stairs but at last we'll have a friend" the toucan flies away, Mirabel and Alana look at him unimpressed "no, you flew away immediately"

    "Alright" Alana moves forward, Mirabel right behind her.

    "Welcome to the Family Madrigal" Mirabel tries to encourage them by singing, as they go up, and up, and up.

    They grow tired after a time, wheezing and struggling to continue.

    "There's many stairs in the Casa Madrigal," Alana complained, almost out of breath. "you would think there'd be another way to get so high cause they're magic, but no..."

    "Bruno, your room is the worst!" Mirabel manages to scream at the void.

    When they finally get to the top 0f the stairs, they find there is a gap in the path that leads to the temple. They groan, exhausted.

    "Come on"

    Alana removes a rope railing and throws it over a boulder above as an anchor.

    "Okay, we can do this"

    Mirabel lets Alana go first, she follows and loses balance for a second, almost falling, but she recovers and Alana pulls her to safety.

    Walking down the corridor, Mirabel accidentally knocks a pot full of rats, startling both of them, as they scurry into a sculpture of Bruno. They open the gate of the sanctum, the room is full of sand and there is little visibility. Mirabel and Alana walk to the center of the room.

    "Empty..." Mirabel looks worried.

    The wind on the cave closed the door with a loud sound, surprising them. Alana walks to try and open the door while Mirabel, seeing something glowing green in the sand, starts digging till she finds a glowing shard.

    "What's hurting the magic?"

    "Mirabel?" Alana leaves the door and walks to her side, realizing that she had found a part of the prophecy.

    "Help me, try to look for the other parts"

    They start digging, unbeknown to them, outside of the room the house seems to rumble and the candle flickers a bit. As they pulled more pieces together they realized that Mirabel is the one in the vision.

    "Me?" She gets uneasy, not even wanting to look at Alana.

    The cave begins to shake, sand starts to pour in, covering the remaining sharps under the sand. Panicking, they dig out the remaining shards and shove them into their bags. Alana runs to the door as Mirabel finally gets the last piece out, she finds the door locked and starts to bang desperately. Mirabel gets pushed to the door by the sand and follows Alana, until the door opens as a wave of sand pushes them out to safety, almost sending them over the cliff.

    Alana and Mirabel look down at the shards, wondering what does it mean?

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    "You should go and get cleaned, I'll tell you what I find after" Mirabel wanted to be alone, Alana understood that having to learn that she had something to do with the magic fading was making her feel bad.

    "Just don't jump into conclusions" Alana grabbed her hands trying to comfort her "Bruno's vision aren't as bad as people made them to be"

    "Are you talking from experience?"

    Alana pauses for a minute. "Mine was... confusing. But don't jump into conclusions, if the vision doesn't make sense we would think of another way, even if we have to go back to that tower or go look after Bruno."

    "Thank you, Alana." Giving her a quick hug, they parted in different directions.

    Alana tries to take the sand off her hair as Luisa walks crying by her side.

    "Oh my..."

    She gets swept into Isaiah's room by a vine.

    "Whoa!"

    "What's that on your hair?" He wrinkles his nose. Isaiah gets close -a little bit too close- to help her get clean.

    "Where have you been? I've been looking for you" Isaiah waits for an answer as Alana thinks how to respond without telling him a lie, he always knew when she was lying.

    "I was with Mirabel, taking care of some problems before the dinner with the Guzman" At the mention of the dinner a heavy veil fell into the room, Isaiah had purposely avoided the topic.

    "Yeah, the dinner" He shaked his head "I have forgotten about it"

    "Unbelievable that you could forget about the woman you're about to marry, I thought you were raised better" Alana tried to joke to ease the conversation but Isaiah did not laugh or follow her joke.

    "The person I'm going to marry" Isaiah murmured under his breath. Alana played with her fingers, unsure of how he would react to what she was about to say, but she needed to know.

    "I just want to know if this will make you happy?" Their eyes locked, she tried to find the answer in his eyes but he couldn't find the strength to be real in his response.

    "This is what I want, this is what I have to do" Isaiah spoked with determination, even if there was an undertone of doubt in his answer.

    "Then I would support you in the path that you'll follow, that's what friends are for" They would always be friends, only friends from now on.

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    "Come on Alana, it'll be fun" A young Isaiah pulled his young friend to Bruno's door.

    "Are you sure this is a good idea?" Her childless voice asked nervously.

    "He told me my future yesterday!"

    This grabbed her interest. "Really? What did he tell you?"

    "He told me that the live of my dream would be promised and some say be mine, that my powers would grow like the grapes that thrive on the vine"

    They reach the cave.

    "Hey, Alana" Bruno greeted her with a small smile trying to hide his nervousness to tell the young girl future, after all the people that had asked him to see them always ended up angry or mad for the thing he would see.

    "Hi, tio Bruno" Isaiah guided her to sit on the floor, in the middle of a sand circle and some candles to light the room. Bruno stepped in the circle and sat down.

    "Isaiah, you should get out of the circle" The kid did as instructed, Alana looked at him for comfort and Isa smiled reassuringly to her.

    "Are you ready?" Looking at Bruno's eyes Alana nodded.

    Wind picks up the sand, trapping them in a bubble as images start to form and Bruno's eyes glow with a green color.

    She saw her older self with her family, smiling and laughing. She saw an older Mirabel and Dolores helping her get dressed, having a good time. She saw herself passing time with the Madrigal. And then she saw him, Isaiah. Or an older version of him.

    He was leaning on her shoulder, the moment seemed intimate but their faces were sad. They looked at each other's eyes and just walked away.

    The vision ended in that moment.

    Bruno handed her a green tablet that had the image of her and Isaiah leaning in.

    "Alana, I'm sorry" Bruno spoked eyeing the girl with worry, he couldn't understand how the future could be that for both of them, he had seen Isaiah's future. Was this really the life of their dreams?

    "It's fine" Alana hide the vision in her purse as Isaiah moved closer to them "I wanted to see the future"

    "Lana!" Isa skips her way "let me see your vision, please!" He looks at her with puppy eyes.

    "Nah, it's a secret"

    "I told you mine" He pointed accusatory.

    "You wanted to~"

    "Lana!"

    "Isa!"

    She would enjoy these moments, she promised herself. The vision was bits of the future but didn't tell the entire story, she would remain hopeful that the vision was an important moment for their lives but not the end for them.

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