The Secret of the Dark Galaxy Stone by Pam Stucky

Author:Pam Stucky [Stucky, Pam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wishing Rock Press
Published: 2016-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

As usual, it took the travelers a few seconds to recombobulate after they transported. “Is the heat making the air wavy like that, or is it just me?” asked Chuck.

“A little of both, I think,” said Emma, rubbing her temples. She looked around to try to orient herself. Ben had intentionally dropped them a few hundred yards away from the labyrinth; landing smack in the center could have caused alarm if someone else were present. Shielding her eyes against the sun with her hand, Emma turned to see if she could find the maze. Though the surrounding area was dotted with the low trees familiar to the area, the labyrinth itself lay in a dry, flat clearing. They were, it seemed, right in the middle of a whole lot of nothing. The arid air and the desolate landscape suddenly brought to her mind a memory of the time she’d landed herself and Charlie on a deserted planet with a man who sought to destroy the universes. She shuddered involuntarily.

“Looks a little like that planet where we found Vik, eh?” said Charlie.

Emma nodded.

“There,” said Eve, pointing toward the north. “Is that it?”

Ben squinted in the direction Eve was pointing, then checked his iPert. “I think it is. Good eyes, Eve.”

Still a little wobbly on their legs, the group trekked the short distance to the labyrinth.

“This is it?” said Eve, puzzled. The labyrinth was not what she was expecting. This was no shrub-lined maze; it was nothing at all like the maze in Dr. Waldo’s Thought room back in the Experimental Building in the Hub. No, it would have been easy to miss this labyrinth from a distance: it was low to the ground, nothing more than earthen paths delineated by stones. The thousands of jagged rocks that lined the outer circle and the diminishing circles within virtually blended in with the surrounding dirt. It was only the shadows of the stones that revealed their presence.

“Yeah, this is it,” said Charlie. “Surprised us, too, yesterday. Banjo told us a labyrinth is not really supposed to be a maze. It’s just a path; you walk it to sort of meditate and think. You could just walk straight to the center, but walking the path is supposed to sort of, I don’t know, put you in a trance or something.”

“A trance?” said Eve. “Really?”

“Well, maybe not a trance,” said Charlie. “But it’s supposed to sort of calm your mind. I think.”

“It’s not supposed to be a maze,” said Ben. “Just, like Charlie said, a meditation thing.”

“So do you think your mom intended us to walk the path?” Chuck asked Eve. “I mean, what else would we do here?”

“Your guess is as good as mine,” said Eve. She walked to the entrance, a path about two feet wide, lined with stones. From there she could see that the labyrinth was made up of four equal quadrants, the paths within each winding around within each quadrant, before leading on to the next, and, ultimately, to the center.

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