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"Me!" cried Kitten

Fox began to interpret, but then glanced at Simber and closed his mouth

Alex shook his head "I don’t kno any of us lived through that, whatever it was" He stepped carefully to the railing and used it to steady hi low over it,a pale yellow path in front of them "Are you sure you’re okay, Sam?"

Samheed nodded and li west," Alexnow" He narrowed his eyes and wished for a better sense of direction "Where are we? Hoe get hoet back?"

"I doubt we’ll have to go through it again," Samheed said "I’m pretty sure that was a scroll feature We’re on the other end now" He rubbed the back of his throbbing head His fingers caain

Alex ignored her, completely puzzled by Samheed’s words "What do you mean, scroll feature? Other end of what?"

Saers on his shirt "I mean it’s like the scroll feature Mr Today turned on in Artietting lost or eaten in the jungle I rode on it our first day, remember?"

Alex frowned He reroup, but he’d never asked what had happened to him "I didn’t care much for you back then, you know"

"Likewise," Sauys what happened But it was sort of like e just went through, only on a much smaller scale"

"You mean you scrolled on a waterfall and didn’t tell anybody about it? Are you joking?"

"Not a waterfall--I wasn’t on water in Artiot sucked down a hill that rotated, and my feet were stuck to it, so even when I was upside down, I didn’t fall anywhere" He pursed his lips "Picture Kitten with her feet glued to the ship’s wheel If we turned it, she’d stay stuck to the wheel all the way around It’s kind of like that--I just went around, and it brought me to the other side of Arti that ent around the world? And noe’rewhere exactly?" Alex looked left and right at the vast, open sea

Sa ere as far west as we could be, beyond the Island of Legends, we’re now as far away froends as we possibly can be We’rewe’reeast"

"MEW MEW MEW"

Everyone turned to look at Kitten, whose tiny face was furious She pointed with her porcelain toes toward the bow of the ship