Dreamfire by Kit Alloway

Author:Kit Alloway
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466869677
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Josh studied the diagram he pointed to, then said, “Each layer of the Veil requires light of a different frequency to cut through it. Frequency corresponds to color.”

“What are the layers of the Veil made of?”

“I don’t know. Although one layer falls right out when you open an archway, and then you can use pieces of it as looking stones.”

Will had wondered how looking stones were created. He supposed this explanation made as much sense as any, given that they were discussing something that might or might not be magic.

“I don’t know what the other layers are made of,” Josh admitted. “They turn into fairy dust as soon as you cut through them.”

She slid the book back across the table to Will, and he sat and stared at it. He felt like some important idea hovered within his reach, and he could catch it if only he could see that it was there. He read another page, and then another, and finally the idea began to reveal itself in his mind.

“Listen to this,” he said. “‘Although candlelight has traditionally been used, automatically employing the entire spectrum of visible light, it has recently been discovered that application of specific, narrow-frequency light will fail to fully penetrate the Veil, as evidenced by looking stones, which can be cut using a light in the 432 to 458 THz range.’” He looked up at Josh. “Does that mean what I think it means?”

Her brows were drawn tight. “Do you think it means that full-spectrum light will cut through the Veil, but red light will cut through only one of the layers?”

“Yes! What if we did everything you normally do when you create an archway, but we used a light frequency that only partially penetrates the Veil? We’d pick a light color closer to the red end of the spectrum and just cut through the first few layers of the Veil, maybe up to the second or third. Wouldn’t that create an archway we could see through but not walk through?”

Will wasn’t sure if he was outlining a plan or just babbling like an idiot. His mouth had been running faster than his mind could follow, chasing that new idea even as it revealed itself.

“Did that make any sense at all?” he asked.

“I think,” Josh said slowly, “that if we pull this off, we’ll win the Nicastro Prize in Dream Theory for young dream walkers. It comes with a college scholarship.”

“We’re really doing something that groundbreaking?”

“No, we’re doing something that clever.”

She had never given him that look before, a look of admiration and excitement. The look clung between them like static electricity, and he wondered how big the spark would be if he touched her.

“But I see a major problem,” she said, bringing him down from his high. “Like Whim said, we don’t know how to find Feodor’s universe. If we just build an archway, it will automatically open to the Dream. How do we get the archway to open to Feodor’s universe instead?”

“Oh,” Will said.

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