Interfinity by Bryan Davis

Author:Bryan Davis [Bryan Davis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scrub Jay Journeys
Published: 2017-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

When the dream ended, my mind fell into blackness until a ringing sound stirred my senses. I awoke and sat up. Angled rays of sunshine flowed in from the window. Was it morning?

The ringing sounded again — a telephone. I patted my pocket. My phone was still there, but that wasn’t making the noise. I jumped up and bounded out of the room, following the rings until I found a wall-mounted phone in the kitchen and snatched up the receiver.

“Hello?”

“Nathan, it’s Daryl Blue. I couldn’t get you on the cell, and it took us forever to find this phone number. It’s not in the book, and they must’ve changed it when Kelly died.”

“Sorry. Glad you found it.”

“Listen. Daryl Red’s fit to be tied. Time is flying there, and she sent me about a thousand messages. I can’t keep up. I told her to cool her jets, but she says she’s only sending a couple a day. So when you get back into cell range, you might want to put your phone on silent. It’ll chirp like a coffee-addicted canary if you don’t. She’s probably sent you, like, a hundred text messages.”

The mention of coffee perked my nose. A coffee canister sat on the kitchen counter with a small purple envelope on top. “So what’s happening on Earth Yellow?”

“That Mictar freak tracked Francesca down, so Gunther took her and her father and mother into hiding. Daryl Red’s living with Vernon and Tony Clark, posing as an exchange student from England. It works out great, because Tony is handy with tools, so he helped her get her network stuff up and running. They have a pretty cool setup now.”

“Can we find Francesca? We’ll probably need her.”

“Daryl Red hasn’t heard from her in a while. Gunther knows how to make contact, but I guess the heat’s been on, so he doesn’t want to risk it. The last time Daryl Red talked to him, he said that wherever he goes, people report him to Mictar — something about Gunther not being in their dreams. Any idea what he’s talking about?”

“Yeah, but it would take too long to explain.”

“Anyway,” Daryl continued, “the bow is ready. Daryl Red wants to come home before she graduates from high school.”

“Let me think a minute.” I picked up the envelope from the canister and read the front. The script said, “Daddy” in Kelly’s handwriting.

I glanced down the hall at the bedroom door. Kelly and I could go back to Earth Yellow. Maybe Gunther and Francesca would see us in their dreams and come out of hiding. But we couldn’t go until we solved the mirror puzzle and found the key to locating my parents, regardless of what Patar said. This might be our only chance.

“I’ll have to call you later. Tell Daryl Red to hang tough. We’ll get her back home before she’s an old lady.”

“She’s going to be ticked, but I’ll tell her.”

“Thanks. You hang in there, too.” I ended the call and ran down the hallway with the envelope in hand.

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