A Key to Worlds: A Parallel Worlds Novel by Mara Amberly

Author:Mara Amberly [Amberly, Mara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-17T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Visited Dimension;

Forest Location – 12:54 p.m.

“The further we get from the portal, the less comfortable I feel. What if we can’t find our way back? What if it rains? It looks kind of grey and it could wash away the chalk. There aren’t that many ribbons.” Nessa looked edgy at best and paranoid at worst as they made their way overland. It had begun to look a lot like James’s world, which was encouraging.

“Can you worry silently? You’ve got a compass and we’ve followed it precisely north-west. You have a trail right there. Between the compass and the markings, and tracking the time we’ve been walking, we should be alright.”

She looked slightly annoyed. “Did you just tell me to shut up?”

James chuckled. “Yeah, I kind of did, didn’t I?”

Nessa grinned, despite her worries and dark mood. Somehow it helped defuse the tension.

“I’m surprised you’re not more worried about crushing the flower in your purse.”

Nessa glanced at it. “My purse can’t be flattened entirely. Not unless you stamped on it or something like that. It was the most protective one I could find.”

James nodded, and then stopped to rest. There was a steep hillside to their left and woods off to their right. Walking between the two, the ground was hard earth with grass and small plants here and there. The sun was almost directly overhead, and according to the time on Nessa’s watch, which she had tucked into her pocket and checked on occasion, it was almost 1 p.m. The time on this world didn’t seem any different, which was consistent with James’s own world.

“If this is my world, we ought to be coming up on the main road that leads down to the city, as well as the castle. So far it looks like it, but I’m not out this way often enough to be sure. Besides, I have no idea how many alternate worlds there are that look like this one.”

A hill lay ahead, which they carefully climbed up, and then James raised a hand to encourage Nessa to stop. She crouched closer to the ground, as did James slightly ahead of her, and looked out over what cover they had. The road was there, as was the city, and the castle towered high in the distance, just where it ought to be. A billowing flag carried the symbol of the King.

“Oh my God, Nessa. I think we’ve found it. I think you’ve brought me home.”

Inwardly, Nessa was relieved but she wasn’t quite prepared to get her hopes up yet. There were said to be any number of parallel worlds, so she wasn’t sure if this was the same one or even if it could be. If it was then she may have found a correlation between sources of scent – or similarities in scent, and their connecting worlds. If this was James’s world, she might be able to return to see him, and as she smiled over at him hopefully, she realised that she wanted to.

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