The Portal and the Veil by Ted Sanders EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Ted Sanders
- Language: English
- Genre: Children’s Fantasy & Magic Adventure
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Joshua
JOSHUA KNEW ABOUT SECRETS.
A secret was something you kept. A secret was a promise, and a
promise—the way Isabel explained it—was like a burning light in the dark.
A light that showed you where to go. If you kept your eyes on that light,
kept walking toward it, you would never get lost, and your friends wouldn’t
either.
But as Joshua lay here alone, thinking hard in the cool quiet of the
Warren, he wondered how you were supposed to know who your friends
were. April was his friend, and her raven, Arthur, too. He felt pretty sure of
that. They were far away now, in danger, and he was very worried about
them. Worried in a way that you only worried for friends. Horace and Chloe
and the other Wardens were far away too, out there trying to rescue April,
and he liked them for that. He was also worried about them a little bit—
maybe they were sort of friends. And now he was alone in the Warren with
Brian and Mrs. Hapsteade. They were very nice to him, especially Mrs.
Hapsteade. She was old, but was she a friend?
Because if she was a friend, Joshua had maybe done a terrible thing.
He hadn’t meant to. Not really. He had made a promise to Isabel, even
though he wasn’t exactly sure what the promise meant. He wasn’t even sure
“promise” was the right word. What he had said he would do—what he had
done, what he was doing right now—it didn’t feel like a light in the dark. It
felt like something heavy and cloudy. Doubt instead of hope.
He opened his hand. Isabel’s wooden ring lay in his palm, warm with
his worry.
“Take it,” she’d told him. “Take it into the Warren, and then I can fix
everything. Tell no one. Take it, and I can make us both the way we were
meant to be. You’ll see.”
A promise. And Joshua had nodded back at her. Was that a promise too?
He thought maybe it was.
But was Isabel a friend?
She was his protector, that was for sure. She’d taken him away from his
last foster home, where no one seemed to care whether he stayed or went, a
place he wasn’t sorry to leave. She’d protected him from the Riven, right
from the start, and had kept him safe more times than he could count. She’d
promised she would help him, and she had—finally—brought him here to
the Wardens.
But was she a friend?
Joshua sighed. Whether Isabel was a friend or not, he had done what she
had told him to. He had brought the ring down the scary elevator and across
the waters of Vithra’s Eye and into the Warren, right into this round stone
room Mr. Meister and Mrs. Hapsteade were letting him stay in. The
Warden’s sanctuary was cozy for a cave, maybe the coziest place he’d
stayed in all his time traveling with Isabel.
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