The Gateway to Troglan by Sas & Elizabeth Huntwood

Author:Sas & Elizabeth Huntwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sas And Elizabeth Huntwood

CHAPTER 6

Grandma Troll

Declan, Tilly and Patrick opened their eyes and all stood up gingerly, checking their limbs to make sure they hadn’t broken anything. Tilly was the first to speak. “What was that? Where are we?”

“No idea, but it looks like we are in some strange place. Perhaps we are dreaming?” Patrick pinched Tilly.

“Oh!” she yelped.

“No, we aren’t dreaming.”

“We must be in Troglan,” Declan said as he walked towards a cluster of very tall trees.

They entered a clearing that was surrounded by the tallest trees any of them had ever seen. The ground was covered in a greenish blue moss with small white flowers poking their heads through. They had studied trees recently in Geography, red alpine trees that were found in America and the tallest trees you can get but these were not only tall, they were a strange colour too. The base of the trunks were red, then as you looked up further, they turned to green, blue and then nearly out of sight they were purple. They were so tall you couldn’t see the tops of them.

There was one tree that stood out, larger than the others and surrounded by a white picket fence with a tiny yellow gate. Tilly walked up to the gate when suddenly out of nowhere there was a whooshing sound followed by a clunk as a large basket landed in front of her. It had fallen out of the sky and had ropes attached to it.

“Come on, get in,” Tilly told the boys.

“Oh yes, great idea, let’s get into a strange basket leading us to who knows where. It will probably be a trap and we will get captured by ogres and eaten,” Patrick said.

“Stop being so sarcastic Patrick, the ogres don’t know we are here and anyway, look, it has a note in it.”

Declan climbed into the basket and read the note. “Welcome my grandson, climb in and come on up, you are just in time for tea. When you are ready pull on the green rope three times.”

Patrick shrugged his shoulders and reluctantly climbed in to join Tilly and Declan. Declan tugged on the green rope three times. The basket started to move upwards. They left the ground and moved through the tree branches until they could no longer see the ground. As they passed different branches the tree was changing colour. The leaves were blue, green, red and finally purple. They came to a stop beside a large branch that was wide enough to walk along. The children stepped out of the basket, looking around, when they heard a shout. “Halloo my dears,” sounded a shrill voice from inside the tree.

They turned around and there, standing at the end of the branch near the tree trunk, was the tiniest elderly lady. She was dressed in a purple dress, with purple wispy hair, glasses balanced on the end of her nose and the brightest blue eyes, the colour of a bright blue sky on a sunny day. They were the same colour as Declan’s.

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