Chapter Fourteen: The Great Basin
(Mid-Chapter: Reilly and Lottie have just gone through another portal.)
“I am called Sitara,” said the fairy. Her translucent wings whirred
like a hummingbird in front of Reilly. “You are in Jolkavatar.”
Reilly pushed his Stellagoggles further up on his nose and
tucked the bendable rims tightly around his ears. “Then we are near Jolka?” he
asked.
“Jolkavatar is found deep within Jolka,” Sitara replied.
“Then we are also near Tir Na Nog!”
“Tir Na Nog is always near. It, too, is within.”
Reilly sighed, frustrated because the portals always
provided few answers and always more questions.
“Follow me,” Sitara said. Her black pixie hair shimmered against
her iridescent wings, and her flowing dress
trailed behind her in a blur of white light. “The Fairies of the great Star
King and Star Queen await your arrival.”
Again Reilly thought about
the portals he’d been through. They all started to blend together. Although he
knew each one was as real as the next, sometimes he couldn’t distinguish one
from the other. It was as if all of his barely-sixteen years of existence
melded together in a recurring, familiar dream
… that recently felt more like a nightmare.
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