14th
Excerpt
from: Interdimensional Travels
“Are you
sure?” Claudia asked.
“I am
sure,” Elias responded. “I have the coordinates recorded.”
“I could
come,” Claudia said. “I mean, for a while, anyway.”
“But I
should say, that your world seems unique in having amphibious humans,”
Christina said.
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Excerpt
from: Berk in Time
“Probably, but I don’t want to be messing with mechanisms
I don’t understand,” Fishlegs said.
“I
suppose we have to keep looking,” Astrid said.
“But
another question,” Fishlegs said. “Where are the Atlanteans now?”
“That’s
a good question,” Tuffnut said.
The
voice responded. “Scanning life signs. Eight Humans detected. Six Norse, One
Egyptian, One Indeterminate, No Atlanteans.”
“Now
it’s saying…” Fishlegs began.
“I know
what it said,” Astrid said.
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Excerpt
from: Lawndale and Sandi Griffin’s Genie, Future Excerpt 2
They found something mysterious.
“What is it?” Daria asked after Elly had picked it up
from a bench.
Sam looked at it. “It could be anything,” he said.
“It could be anything,” Sabrina said. ‘That is the most
likely explanation. What else could it’s origin be?’
“There is nothing in the wish book,” Sandi said.
referring to the book that contained all of the wishes that had been made since
she found the opal on the Wednesday the week before. ‘I’m sure people wouldn’t
think to wish for their wish to be hidden.’
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Excerpt
from: Mysteries of Aurora
Freya looked at the time.
“12:20,” she said. “I have Introduction to Renaissance Art of Aurora in twenty
minutes.”
“Oh,” Alexia said. “I’ll see you
another time.”
“I will!”
Olivia found some records in
Auroran. “Of course it’s still Old Auroran, but that’s fine.”
“How may I help you?” It was
David, the library assistant who had helped two days earlier.
“Yes, I’m browsing this area.”
“The Late Old Auroran
translations of the Norse records?”
“Yes. To get a taste of the
period, as it were,” Olivia answered.
“A good idea. Let me show you
something.”
Olivia nodded. She followed
David to the end of a shelf.
“This is the index of the
records,” David said as he pulled out a book.
“Thanks.”
Freya arrived at the lecture
theater and saw that there were just as many people there as there were for the
Music lecture. She went up to a few other students. “Hey, I’m Freya!”
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Excerpt
from: Spider Quinn
“I
did find something,” she said.
“Which
was?” SpiderGirl asked.
Andrea
brought up a document she had compiled the data on. “Someone was seen leaving
the Historia at the time, carrying someone else to a manhole nearby.” She then
brought up a collage of screenshots.
“So,
that proves Jane was taken,” SpiderGirl said after she had had a look.
“It
does, but not where she was taken,” Ninja Talon pointed out.
“Too
true,” SpiderGirl considered.
“So,
what now?” Andrea asked.
“We’ll
scout the area now, and return sometime tomorrow for more intensive search,”
SpiderGirl decided.
“I
agree,” Ninja Talon said.
“Let
me know how it goes,” Andrea said. “I’ll be at the Historia for morning tea.”
“Great!”
Ninja Talon said.
Up
on the roof the heroes paused. “Which way?” Ninja Talon asked. “By the Creek,
or along the road?”
“Probably
the Creek, but what do you think?”
“The
Creek would have more cover, if he’s looking out for us.”
“He
probably wouldn’t be, in the middle of the night,” SpiderGirl said. “But we’ll
be careful anyway.”
They
then swung away.
Using
a car, the Enigma had taken from a place a couple of blocks away from the
Morgendorffers, the Enigma and Dafoanairi arrived at one of the docks on the
lake. “This should be a good spot,” the Enigma said as she got out.
Dafoanairi
followed her out with a small flashlight and looked at her map of the county.
“The lake is about two and half miles wide at it’s widest point.”
“That
should be fine,” the Enigma said.
“When
you’re ready.”
The
Enigma grabbed the energy drink. She looked at Dafoanairi and then downed it. “Findu
man sem heiter: Jane Peyton Lane!”
Dafoanairi
noticed that the field was more perceptible than the previous night.
The
Enigma’s perception expanded as it had the night she searched for Tiffany just
over two weeks earlier. However, instead of Lawndale, expanded over the Lake,
and the countryside between it and
Lawndale proper. Unlike the previous night, she was able to locate Jane! She
was sleeping in a room somewhere, and three other people were with her.
“Enigma?”
Dafoanariri asked.
The
Enigma took the map off her and marked where Jane was. “She’s there. In a
cabin, there. The critics are there with her, all sleeping.”
“That’s
good news,” Dafoanairi said with a sigh of relief. She looked and saw that the
position was a half mile to the west of their position.
“We
could go there now.”
“But
he might have more illusions prepared. We can’t go in half cocked.”
“I
know, but we have to try,” the Enigma said with determination.
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15th
Excerpt
from: The Poet and the Artist
Elias had done it. He had written a poem to encourage the
sports house in the athletics carnival. But he realized that there was
something missing. “Art?” he asked himself. He knew an artist who in was in his
year and in the sports house.
The next day, he entered the Year 11 area at lunch. He
looked around. He soon found her. “Clare?” he asked as he came up to where she
was sketching.
“Elias?” she asked.
“I wonder if you would like to help me with something for
the athletics carnival.”
“Something?” Clare asked.
He took out the sheet on which he had written the poem
and handed it over to her.
“I didn’t know you had a flare for poetry.”
“That’s what my mum said too,” Elias said shyly.
Clare read the poem again. It made sense given that the
name of the sports house was that of a river in the region.
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156
Excerpt
from: Alex and the Artifact
But then
she heard something.
It was a
strange hum.
“What is
that?” she asked herself as she took out her compowder.
She told
it to analyse the sound.
Inconclusive
“What do
you mean, inconclusive?” Alex asked it. Stll, she didn’t want to bother Jerry,
so she sighed. She had recorded it anyway. She could bring it up next time she
went shopping.
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Excerpt
from: Secrets of Lawndale
“I guess not.”
“As for other places, I heard that Oakwood and Middlebury
have them too, but not about Cumberland or places outside the county.”
“I hope that town in Texas doesn’t,” Quinn said with a
slight shudder.
“Daria hasn’t said much about it, other than that she
sometimes hung out two strange guys.”
“Ugh! The less said about them the better. They are as
dumb as Kevin! Let’s talk more about this place.”
Jane could tell that Quinn was uncomfortable. But she
wanted to show her Lawndale Below rather than just tell her about it.
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Excerpt
from: Genie Universe Reboot
She then
told them her plan. “OK, here is what we are going to do.”
Aliadine
interrupted. “Just tell us!”
“I’ll go
over to the side of the river and you can swim over to where I am,” Nicola
said.
“OK,” Aliadine
said. She was still impatient, but she still listened to Nicola as she outlined
the plan further.
Nicola
went to the side of the river.
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Excerpt
from: Mysteries of Aurora
One turned to her. “Hi, Freya.
I’m Michaela. You certainly look the part.”
Freya shrugged. “I have always
stood out.” She looked at Michaela, who had a small amount of blue highlights
in her auburn hair, but otherwise looked conventional.
“I guess so,” Michaela said as
the doors opened.
Olivia ran her text to speech
pen over the page in the index.
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Excerpt
from: Spider Quinn
Dafoanairi sighed. “We’ll go in slowly, and be alert.”
“I will be.”
“Fine.”
They drove there and the approached the cabin slowly.
Suddenly, the Enigma perceived something. “You’re right,” she said to
Dafoanairi, “there are traps here. We’ll have to go around.”
“Or maybe we come back tomorrow with Peterson and a few
other officers.”
“Let’s see if there is a way in first.”
Dafoanairi nodded.
The Enigma lead them around the edge of where the
illusion traps were. 10 minutes later, they had completed a circle. “The
technology probably wouldn’t hold up to my projections,” she said. “Or to being
telekinetically ripped apart.”
Dafoanairi could hear a slight undertone of doubt. “But
you’re sure that would alert him to our presence.”
“Absolutely. It would be better to do it in the daytime,
even if there will be a storm tomorrow.”
“Then that’s what we’ll do,” Dafoanairi decided. “I’ll
tell Peterson that you found Jane, and that we plan to come back here sometime
later. About midday.”
“Good plan.”
They then went back to the car and drove back into
Lawndale.
Shortly afterwards, SpiderGirl and Ninja Talon reached
the Lake at the wetland where the Creek flowed into it. They could hear sounds
of various nocturnal birds around them. “One would think they’re daytime
animals,” SpiderGirl said.
“It’s not just owls,” Ninja Talon said.
“I knew that. I thought it was only a few groups. Anyway,
which way?”
“The right, which is the west. There are cabins half a
mile in that direction.”
“That makes sense,” SpiderGirl said.
The Enigma and Dafoanairi left the vehicle on the block
the former had taken it from. “I’ll you at the Historia,” the former said.
Dafoanairi nodded. “Yes, have a good night.”
“You too,” the Enigma said warmly.
Dafoanairi thought about that exchange as she headed
home. It seemed that they were becoming friends. ‘Another way I’m changing,’
she thought. Even a couple of weeks earlier, if someone said that they would be
friends, she would have thought the other person was crazy.
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