The Giant Mistake by Zoe Penn

Author:Zoe Penn [Penn, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: middle grade novel, fantasy fiction, juvenile fiction
Publisher: Planet Zoe d.o.o.
Published: 2019-04-03T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

SOMETIMES IN LIFE YOU HAVE TO SAY FAREWELL

“Oh, Mark, thank God!” Sophia hugged her brother tightly. “Are you okay?!”

“I guess I’m fine. I… I don’t know what happened.” He checked his pocket. “At least the flower came back in one piece.”

Rainbow joined in. “Hey, why don’t you rest a bit and I’ll take the *squeak* flower to the wall. It’s not that far.”

Mark handed her the flower. She gently took it in her beak and flew away.

“Now we only need the wood.” Lilly smiled to sound cheerful.

“Can we take a little food break? I’m really hungry and tired,” said Mark, still lying on the ground. “It’s late afternoon and my stomach’s rumbling.”

“Of course!” Sophia liked the idea. “I think I still have some fruit from the garden.” She took everything out of her bag; apples and carrots, the knife, the bottle with chips of wood, and her smartphone, to check if Mom had called.

Lilly fixed her eyes on the bottle.

“Hey, what’s that?”

“Oh, that’s nothing. Just some silly idea Sophia had. She thought we had to chip a piece of the raft in a bottle,” Mark explained.

Lilly stared at him. “Mark, what was the color of the wood from the wall?”

“I don’t know. Blue-green, probably dark teal. Why do you ask?”

The panafish enthusiastically bounced up and down. “Guys, this wood is dark teal and the wood we need is also dark teal! And there is no such wood anywhere in this jungle, I know it!”

“Oh, Lilly, you solved it! Mark, eat quickly, we’re going back to the wall.” Sophia stuffed everything back into her bag.

The three of them ran to the wall to place the last item. Rainbow was already there, sitting on a branch.

“Why so fast? I was just going to fly back to you.”

There was a spark of disappointment in her voice.

“We found the last item!” Lilly was racing through the air like a flying squirrel. “Imagine this, Sophia had it in her bag the whole time!”

Rainbow didn’t even get a chance to react because Sophia already inserted the bottle into the last empty hole. As soon as she did, the huge stone blocks started to move, rubbing and grinding against each other, shifting about and switching places like in a jigsaw puzzle, forming five identical doors, completely fitting the wall, each under a specific item.

They all stood staring aghast and speechless.

“Hey, wall,” Mark was the first to speak. “Don’t you think you overdid it? We only need one door to get out of here.”

Sophia swallowed nervously and stepped back. “I was not expecting that.”

“Look, look!” Lilly yelled. “There is something written there!” She pointed towards the top of the wall. “Which of you knows how to read?”

Sophia and Mark both looked in that direction and saw bright blue words burned into the stone. They read out loud:

Each door leads OUT,

though under different

circumstances.

CHOOSE your door

and LEAVE.

Almation

“Kh, kh, *squeak* guys,” Rainbow cleared her throat and sadly lowered her head. “It’s getting late and I have to fly back to my family.

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