Passing Through the Portal by Kelly Hashway

Author:Kelly Hashway [Hashway, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub

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I had to shield my eyes against the bright sunlight that greeted me on the other side of the portal. What had happened to the night? There was no way I’d talked to this guy and debated coming here with him until morning.

“The light takes a little getting used to,” the guy said. “It never gets dark here.”

I was about to comment when the portal made a sound like a giant bubble bursting. “Whoa!” I jumped up and turned to see the portal was gone, like it had never been there to begin with. The ground was solid dirt.

“We need to move. It isn’t safe to stay here,” the guy said. Now that he wasn’t cloaked in shadows, I finally got a good look at him. Though the bright sunlight wasn’t exactly making that easy. He was dressed in army fatigues, which I guessed made sense since he said he had an army. Still, I wouldn’t have thought army fatigues in another world would look exactly like the ones in mine.

Since he’d mentioned a dragon earlier, I figured that must have been what he was referring to when he said it wasn’t safe here. If there was a dragon nearby, I definitely didn’t want to stick around.

“Here,” the guy walked over to a giant boulder. We were surrounded by them, which struck me as odd. He picked up two knives. Not steak knives. These things were big. The length of butcher knives, but the blades were thinner and more angular. “Take this. You’ll need it to fight in close range.” He raised his eyebrows. “Though, trust me when I say you don’t want to let these things get close enough to you to need to use a knife. If you do, it will most likely mean you’re on your last breath.”

Very reassuring. I took the knife because being unarmed was the last thing I wanted right now.

The guy attached his knife to a holder on his belt. Then he turned back to the boulder and grabbed a bow and arrow from the other side of it. “Are you any good with one of these?”

I looked it over, recognizing the design. We used similar ones in gym class. Why did so many things in this place seem to match the things we had on Earth. Where exactly was I? “My aim is decent,” I said when I realized he was waiting for me to answer his question.

“Good. You should be a quick study then.”

I expected him to hand me the bow, but instead, he kept it and motioned for me to follow him. He brought me through the boulders to an area filled with trees. I looked up, expecting a dragon would most likely fly, but what I saw was almost more intimidating than a real-life dragon. The stars in the sky weren’t stars at all. They were people. Humongous people that moved about. None of them seemed to go very far, but they were definitely alive. “What are they?” I asked.

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