The Legends of Greemulax by Kimmy Schmidt

Author:Kimmy Schmidt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2019-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

It had become clear pretty quickly that Lillibop’s map wasn’t exactly accurate. Either she’d taken some artistic license, or perhaps the landscape had changed. No matter the reason, Penn and Kristy had been walking for hours and hours and they were lost. Hours and hours and hours.

Currently, Kristy was sitting cross-legged on the grass with the map laid out in front of her. She was busy drawing a line through the path they’d taken. Rainbow Knights had glitter pens in their utility belts along with seemingly everything else. Penn was secretly impressed with how prepared Kristy was for… anything. But he was less than impressed with Lillibop’s mapmaking skills. Penn scratched at the dirt, working hard not to get angry. He didn’t need any more Grabagorn limbs, thank you very much.

“Ohhhh, that’s where we went wrong.” Kristy nodded. Her eyes remained fixed on the map. “We should have turned left at the Twisty Trees to get to the Happy Hills. And we weren’t supposed to be looking for a fork in the road—it’s a spoon that we want. Right near Pudding Lake.” Kristy folded up the map and grinned. “Then we just cross it and boom! South Greemulax.” She sprang to her feet and did a little victory dance. How was she so cheerful all the time?

“Spoon, not fork. Got it,” Penn echoed in a monotone voice. He wondered where Kristy was getting all this endless energy. She had stopped fading, so maybe that was helping. “Okay, then. Lead the way.”

The two retraced their steps back through the grove of Twisty Trees. Just like their name suggested, the tree branches looped and coiled around one another.

“Neato,” Kristy said, stopping short. “Those trees look like they’re hugging.”

“What?” Penn said. “No way, they look like they’re fighting each other. And the taller one is winning.”

Kristy stared at him. “Umm, okay.” Her cheeks flickered and faded, but she didn’t seem to notice. She shook her head slightly at him and started walking again.

“What?” he said, trailing after her. “What did I say?”

She didn’t respond. She’d been doing that all day. Silently judging him but pretending she wasn’t. He did not like that.

After Penn and Kristy navigated the trail through the Twisty Trees, they hiked up and down the Happy Hills, feeling a strange sense of joy wash over them with each step. Happy hills were the best.

Next, they followed the road.

“Penn, look!”

“What?”

“It’s the spoon in the road.” She pointed in front of her to where the ground dipped into what felt like a large round bowl. “If you squint, it’s totally a spoon. See? We’re on the right track. Pudding Lake is after the handle.”

Kristy skipped into the landmark.

And then she froze.

Penn caught up with her, and Kristy put a finger to her lips.

“Did you hear that?” Her eyes darted back and forth suspiciously.

“Hear what?” Penn replied, at full volume.

“Shhh!” Kristy hissed. She crept around, searching.

What now? he thought as he watched her. She was always stopping to chat, or to look up at a bird she thought was cool or try to talk to a squirrel that wanted nothing to do with her.

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