Escaping Ordinary by Scott Reintgen

Author:Scott Reintgen [Reintgen, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2020-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Have you ever felt unlucky, dear reader? The one night you didn’t do your homework is when your teacher decides to call your name for the answer? Or the candy bars in the vending machine only get stuck when you try to buy them? That was how Indira was starting to feel about the world of Imagination. It was almost as if it decided to glitch whenever she was around.

First she’d been the target of an unfinished character disguised as one of the school’s trusted brainstorms. Ketty had been using dark magic to force her way back into a story, all while forcing Indira out of it. That adventure had nearly broken the entire city of Fable.

Now she was right in the middle of another breakdown.

The province of Plot was clearly under attack. Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz was soon joined by dozens of other characters. There was King Arthur, clutching the broken sword to his chest, asking if anyone knew a good local blacksmith. The boy in overalls—Huckleberry Finn—was trying to keep Dorothy calm. She kept clicking a pair of ruby heels together and looking at the sky.

As the noise and chaos grew, Indira decided enough was enough. She found the largest stone chunk from the broken memorial and climbed atop it. Cupping both hands, she shouted.

“Hey! Everyone! Calm down. I need everyone to be quiet for a second!”

The swirling mass of characters paused long enough to look her way. She didn’t exactly have a plan, but she didn’t want to lose the momentum. “Let’s figure this out together. Dorothy. You were the first one who appeared. Tell us what happened.”

Hearing her name, the famous character finally looked up from her glittering red slippers.

“I woke up in my Story House,” she replied. “I was going on a little walk through my first scenes—basking in the glow of my adoring fans, as usual—but there was no door. The story had changed. I didn’t ever go to Oz. My—well, I stayed in Kansas. I never left.”

Huck Finn nodded. “I never took to the river.”

“And when I went to pull the sword from the stone,” King Arthur added, “I failed.”

More characters shared their stories, each with a common thread. The destroyed monument had been a celebration of crossing the threshold. It was the beginning of nearly every character’s adventure. Moving on from the ordinary and into a world of unknown. As the noise started growing out of control again, Indira waved for silence.

“Raise your hand if your story changed.”

Every single hand went up.

“So none of you actually went on the adventure?”

There was a muttered agreement. Indira’s mind was racing. She’d thought at first that Joey had simply destroyed the monument. Somehow, though, his powers had echoed deeper than just into the physical stones. He’d actually broken a crucial step in the Hero’s Journey. Authors were powerful, she knew, but apparently walking into the world of Imagination increased that power to something dangerous.

“If you can’t cross the threshold…”

Phoenix was nodding. “No adventures.

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