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"See?" E "We’re somewhen else!"

And just like that, we’d entered a loop--abandoned ain 1940 for a hot afternoon in soh it was difficult to tell just how much older, here in the forest, away from the easily datable cues of civilization

One by one, the other children surfaced around us, and seeing how ed, had their own realizations

"Do you realize what thisin circles, out of breath with excitee embedded in the Tales!"

"Not so useless now, are they?" said Olive

"Oh, I can’t wait to analyze and annotate theether

"Don’t you dare write in s!" said Bronwyn

"But what is this loop?" asked Hugh "Who do you think lives here?"

Olive said, "Cuthbert’s animal friends, of course!"

Enoch rolled his eyes but stopped short of saying what he was probably thinking--It’s just a story!--e, too

"Every loop has an ymbryne," said Eo and find her"

"All right," said Millard "Where?"

"The only place the story made mention of aside fro the bluff beyond the trees "Who’s ready to do sory, every one of us, but finding the loop had given us a burst of new energy We left the stone giant behind and set off through the woods toward the foot of the bluff, our clothes drip-drying quickly in the heat As we neared the bluff, the ground began to slope upward, and then a orn path appeared and we followed it up and up through clusters of brushy firs and winding rocky passages, until the path becao on all fours, clawing at the angled ground to pull ourselves forward

"There’d better be so wonderful at the end of this trail," said Horace, dabbing sweat froentleround rising sharply on our right side and dropping away on the left, a carpet of green treetops spreading beyond it "Hug the wall!" E at the drop-off made me dizzy Suddenly, it seehts, and it took all my concentration simply to put one foot in front of the other