The Floating Room by Brian Olsen

Author:Brian Olsen [Olsen, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-20T04:00:00+00:00

Eighteen

“This is so cool!” Nate grabs my arm. “Dude, you teleported further than Liefer ever did, and that’s his whole thing! That’s, like, all he does, and you do it better than him!”

“He does other stuff that I can’t,” I say, but my cheeks warm with pride.

Nate’s right. This is big. I’ve been thinking of it just in terms of finding the artifacts and freeing the magical creatures, but if I can teleport anywhere, even someplace I’ve never been, that could be a huge help with whatever Miller’s planning, not to mention if Liefer decides to end our truce. I need to practice this more. Test my limits.

But right now, we need to get our bearings. I took us right where I wanted, Cecil Court, just off Charing Cross Road. It’s a wide pedestrian alley, with no cars. Now that I’m here it looks vaguely familiar from my childhood vacation. Dad’s a huge reader and there are a ton of bookstores here, so we came more than once.

There are a lot of people walking by on Charing Cross Road and on the other cross street at the far end from us, St. Martin’s Lane. But there are only a couple on Cecil Court. The bookstores are all really cute, with wooden signs hanging from bars jutting out over the pavement. There are a few sandwich boards, too, telling us which stores specialize in music or mysticism or first editions, and a couple of bins of cheap paperbacks set up outside to lure in passers-by. Apart from the woman on the cell phone, who moves away from us with a nasty glare, nobody’s paying us the slightest bit of attention.

“That was lucky,” Alisa says. “I guess nobody saw us appear.”

“Not luck.” I crack my knuckles, grinning. “I worked it into the spell, to wait to move us until nobody was looking. That’s why it took a second after I said my word.”

“Nice.” Zane squeezes my behind. “That was smart. Geez, you’re getting good fast.”

“Yes.” Tannyl’s not smiling. His hand moves a little, like it wants to grab his hidden dagger but doesn’t. “You are, indeed, becoming more powerful, Chris.”

That kills the mood a little.

Jasmine brings a little cheeriness back by hugging every one of us in rapid succession. “We’re in London! I love England so much! Oh my gosh, this is the best!” She runs around the tall black lamppost in the center of the street, holding on by one arm. “Can we see a play? My parents take me here almost every summer and last year we saw a show at Shakespeare’s Globe and we stood the whole time and it was so much fun!” She stops for breath. “Can we do that?”

Alisa laughs. “I think we’re too late to see a show, Jaz. It’s five hours later here than it is at home. We should probably find the artifact before anything else.”

“And then we need to get back.” Zane takes my hand. “Some of us have a date tonight. A private date.

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