The Curse of Greg by Chris Rylander

Author:Chris Rylander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2019-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

I Discover My True Language Is

We got to know our new NOLA companions a little while hanging out in their Underground, planning, and waiting for midnight (which we were told was the hour at which Moonwraiths first appear) to roll around.

It was hard for me to sit there and make small talk when I knew the answer to fixing my dad might be somewhere in that very city. Might even be as close as a few blocks away. And also that Edwin, my former best friend, could also be there in New Orleans, nearby. But I knew the path to finding out these things (and the right thing to do) was to help the NOLA Dwarves with some of their local monster sightings and MPMs first.

They had an area that was sort of like our Arena back home. A place where all the kids hung out and had fun and did Dwarfy things. But their version of the Arena was a lot smaller and less traditional. There were supplies for more modern activities. Stuff like baseball gloves, footballs, old video arcade games, and board games.

The weirdly familiar newness of the place helped put my dad, and Edwin, and facing off against an army of Elves out of my mind. At least enough so that I could focus on getting to know the locals who were going to come along with us on the Moonwraith hunt:

• Yoley Ashbender: As one of the few NOLA Dwarves obsessed with ancient Dwarven culture, she refused to be left out of this. She and Lake had a blast that evening discussing various Separate Earth Dwarven dialects they’d studied as they played an old video arcade fantasy game called Golden Axe III. I didn’t catch much of their conversation, but it turns out that many of the world’s “modern” languages (including English) are derived from an ancient Dwarven dialect called . If I tried to pronounce it for you, I might choke on my own tongue.

• Giggles Bitterspine: He didn’t actually giggle very much. In fact, Kimmy’s son didn’t talk much at all. Which is perhaps why it was weird when he and Froggy seemed to hit it off. How do two people who basically don’t talk become friends? Giggles was the total opposite of his mom: small and skinny and very quiet. Instead of filling a room with his presence, it seemed more like he was perpetually trying to melt into the cracks in the stone floor. While he and Froggy played an old Dwarven card game, they exchanged more looks than actual words.

• Boozy Alemaul: At twenty-two he was the oldest of the group. Boozy was from a legendary family of partiers, which helped explain why he lived in a city famous for its parties. He laughed a lot when we all shared what we knew about Moonwraiths, and didn’t seem concerned that we would soon be facing off against one. Which was especially troublesome when we collectively discovered that nobody really knew how to defeat a Moonwraith.

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