Shadow Walkers by Brent Hartinger

Author:Brent Hartinger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult, teen fiction, fiction, teen, teen fiction, teenager, astral projection, drama, romance, relationships, fantasy, supernatural, paranormal, science fiction
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2011-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

The source of the grinding noise was … a giant purple pinwheel.

At least that’s what it looked like from where Emory and I were, still floating high up in the sky. It hung there, suspended vertically in mid-air above the lawn of one of the houses that surrounded the town of Hinder.

Whatever this thing was, it was definitely with us on our side of the looking glass. It glowed with a purple light, but it didn’t seem to be casting any shadows. And it wasn’t dimmed by the astral lens.

Just like a pinwheel, it was slowly rotating.

I had to check it out.

“Wait!” Emory said, even as I had already started angling down. “Keep a look out—and avoid the shadows.” Unlike me, he hadn’t already forgotten about the shadow creature.

We landed in the open lawn area in front of the house. From there, the purple pinwheel looked like some kind of vortex: an eight-foot whirlpool of energy. It was definitely moving, slowly revolving inward, like a satellite photo of the clouds of a rotating hurricane. As it slowly turned, it made a sound like the millstone of a windmill. The vague ethereal breeze still blew, toward the vortex now, but it was easy to withstand.

“What is it?” I said.

“A gate,” Emory said.

“A what?”

“A doorway to another dimension.”

“How do you know that?” I said.

“There was one just like it on an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

“We’re now getting our information about the astral dimension from a TV show?”

Emory shrugged.

I thought back to Voyage Beyond the Rainbow. Once again, Celestia Moonglow hadn’t said anything about this—despite the totally misleading blurb on the book jacket that had promised readers they could “travel through space and time, visit distant planets, and even travel to different dimensions.”

She hadn’t said anything about shadow creatures with human eyes either. The truth is, she made a crappy spirit guide. If Celestia Moonglow really had been to the astral dimension in some form, she hadn’t done it like I had.

“This doesn’t have anything to do with Gilbert,” Emory said. “I think we should leave.”

“What’s going on?” said a voice from the porch of the little house.

It was the shimmering outline of an old man, fat with sweat-matted hair and rumpled pajamas. He was looking right at us, confused, like he’d wandered from his house in the middle of the night. But he was like Emory and me, clear and bright, definitely with us in the astral realm.

“What am I doing outside?” the old man said to us. His whole body shook and wobbled like a person on ice skates for the first time.

“He’s doing astral projection,” Emory said to me. “Like us.”

“Why is everything so dark?” the man said. He gestured at the vortex. “And what in heaven’s name is that?”

“Don’t you know how you got here?” Emory asked the old man.

“No!” said the man in his pajamas. “I was just—” He pointed back at the house behind him, but was interrupted by the sound of sirens. My first

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