The Key to the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks

Author:Lynne Reid Banks [Lynne Reid Banks]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780007529971
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1998-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

By the time Omri’s mother came back with Gillon, now with a dressing on his head and looking a lot better, they had made a sort of plan. But Gillon was now a major worry.

“We can’t take him. We can’t possibly take the risk. There won’t be a third ‘man-toy’ ready for him.”

“But now he’s been back once…”

“Maybe he won’t remember. Maybe his knock on the head will have made him forget.”

It hadn’t. But what it had done was to make his adventures in India go rather fuzzy. And as he had had no notion of the magic before it overtook him, he rationalised the whole thing into a dream.

He was full of it. It was he who told the parents the story of the Indian adventure, though in rather garbled form (Omri kept absolutely quiet – it wouldn’t do to admit that his dream had agreed with Gillon’s), but their mother was too busy fussing about what had happened to put them all to sleep in the car, to take it in. His dad, however, listened in wonder and fascination.

“Isn’t that just the weirdest dream you ever heard, Dad!” Gillon said at the end.

“I could tell you a weirder one that I had,” said their father, “but you’d think I’d lost my marbles completely.”

“Fumes,” said their mother shortly.

“What?” they all asked.

“Fumes. Exhaust fumes. It must’ve been. That’s the only possible explanation. There’s a leak of some kind, you were all breathing carbon monoxide and you all passed out and had delirious dreams. And if the car had been in a closed garage, or maybe even if I hadn’t come out when I did, you’d probably all have died. And that car had its service two weeks ago. Just wait till I get it back to that garage!”

Omri was hugely relieved that she hadn’t believed a single word of Gillon’s story. Gillon didn’t believe it himself. The only thing that seriously bothered their mother was how Gillon got his head injury. That was one of those little mysteries that was destined never to be solved.

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