Chapter 29: At Last
Sam tries the key on Thelwyne's cell, but it doesn't work. Thelwyne calmly tells Sam that Draegor and his Orci will be there soon, so Sam should try teleporting Thelwyne.
After several tries, she manages it. Thelwyne is teleported outside the cell right next to Sam, as Sam's Story-Breaker Power gets ever stronger.
Sam and Thelwyne soon find Arstaef and the rescued girls.
"I'm in QM kindergarten. For that, you need a Ph.D.," Sam said, laughing.
QM being, as I mentioned before, the name for Samantha's teleportation magic.
The group run off into the jungle outside.
Meanwhile, Draegor and the Orci find the two guards Sam had knocked out with a sleeping gas.
I guess by now it would be obvious, but hey, they're still groggy from their nap. They're not thinking straight.
Draegor tells the Orci to search "the south-east quadrant". Not sure why that particular region is his target of choice, because the story wasn't too clear on its specific geography.
Arstaef and the girls manage to crouch down as the Orci gallop past them, somehow missing them - the story doesn't explain how.
But Draegor and Krell, having taken a different route, see them from the view of on top of a ridge. Arstaef and the girls are visible in the moonlight. Unaware that they're being watched.
The kids run to the tree Aldur and Sam shouts, "Abscondere!" The tree's silver doors appear and open, and the kids rush inside as they close.
And thus their secret base is revealed to the bad guys.
Malachi sat high on a branch of Aldur watching as they turned and rode away.
I sense Deep Shit happening soon...
At least the parrot saw what happened.
Chapter 30: Shhhh!
Whoa, quite melodramatic there, are we?
Isolde, leaning on her cane, emerges from her chamber, pissed off.
The kids excited shout out that Sam, Arstaef and Thelwyne saved them. Isolde demands that Sam, Arstaef and Thelwyne go to the Council Room immediately.
At least someone isn't pissed with the kids. I can guess what this is about though. Probably the lack of wisdom of rushing in to rescue the kids without getting more support and having more of a plan.
"Not that again," Samantha groaned under her breath.
Sam is pretty tired of being chewed out for her screw-ups. I mean, damn. She leaves her world and is chased into this one through no fault of her own, finds out she's secretly a queen (not princess, QUEEN) and is prophesied to save this world at the fucking age of ten, and surprise surprise, she sucks at it. Like they really should have expected much of her.
Eyes flashing, Isolde glared at the three young adventurers, "You may kill the girls yet."
He notices then that Isolde is pissed, but winks at Sam when she's not looking.
Chapter 31: But First...
Alien Surprise. I can't get over that name. I don't drink alcohol, so would anyone know if that name makes any kind of sense?
Ansel is upset that Professor Stone (Sam's dad, remember) didn't receive a grant for his research.
Stone raised his mug, Ansel his.
"To the butts of baboons," Ansel said.
"Baboon butts," Stone added as the two clinked their mugs,
That just sounds so awkwardly immature. Like it's trying to appeal to little kids or something, involving the more "mature" characters, the ones who talk about adult things that would fly over the heads of kids. It just doesn't feel like it fits.
Suddenly, a stranger wearing a red raincoat and with a hood covering his face shows up, telling Professor Stone, "I hear you're looking for Atlantis. What if I could show you something far beyond your wildest imagination?"
The Lemony Narrator briefly steps in the room, before quickly exiting.
Stone invites Krell to talk. Krell tells Stone that he's about to lose his reputation after all his years of study, but hey, he could at least show Stone the "lost land of Aerynon".
Stone says that Aerynon has been dismissed as a fairy tale, having been referenced only twice in all of history, in the form of hieroglyphics on the walls of Egyptian tombs.
Which honestly only makes the story even more random. Why is Egypt suddenly involved?
I dunno, I thought it came from human laborers working their asses off. Them needing some kind of supernatural power to build the pyramids is a new one to me.
Stone wants to know why Krell wants to help him, and Krell says,
Krell's really pushing the whole "I can help you big time" thing. Sounds kinda suspicious if you ask me.
