The Keystone by Korb Suz

Author:Korb, Suz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ink Hills
Published: 2016-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

What a world. And I'm not just saying that in my mind because I recently watched The Wizard of Oz, and I'm convinced that's what the Wicket Witch of the West says when Dorothy melts her with water.

"What a world! What a world!"

Because that's what I'm looking at right now.

I'm floating behind an open doorway. On the other side of said doorway, can only be described to my own brain, as another world.

Definitely not the world I was born in. On?

I was born on Earth, yes. Is this Earth I'm looking at?

No. It can't be. I don't know anywhere on Earth that looks like what I'm staring at right now. And I would know, I've spent hours and hours on the Google Earth app, spinning the virtual globe round and round, zooming in on distant lands to the one of my birth.

But this? This city I'm staring at right now?

This is like no place on planet Earth.

No way, now how.

And didn't Degan mention something to me about not being from my world?

Well, I don't know what world he's from, but if it's the one I'm staring at right now, he's really got nothing to complain about being stuck on Earth.

Apart from the fact he's trapped inside a mountain of caves with my parents. Yeah, I'm going to have to close this door, aren't I?

I'm going to have to try all the other doors in this void until I find the one that leads me back to Earth, and back to my parents.

But wasn't that Crizma I saw a second ago?

Even if it wasn't the same cat, it was still a cat with goggles on it's head, and also wings on it's back, so…

"You!"

Talking of talking cats.

The one who just bounced around in the void, is back in my face. It's blocking out my view of the strange world beyond. Why? Because it's flying with it's wings and I can see this is a different talking cat, by the female voice that's coming out of its throat.

"How did you open this portal?" The cat shouts very loudly.

"Crizma?" I try the only talking-cat name I know.

This turns out to be the wrong name to say.

"Meowrrroowwerrrr!" The cat hisses and growls in my face. "This is all his fault!"

The cat floats aside so I can once again stare at the world before me.

I'm looking out onto a vast city. But it's like no city I've ever visited. It's like I'm looking into a time travel mirror, because all the buildings are dated no later than Victorian era, for sure.

Yet they're big. Some of the towers are really massive and high as Dubai skyscrapers!

Amongst the buildings of this vast city are flying creatures and what I can only guess are blimps. Some look like flying pirate boats with blimp balloons attached above to keep them afloat. Other ships in the air appear to be huge hot-air balloons, only the balloons are made of gold, silver, bronzes and other elaborate metals. And the baskets

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