Chapter 2
"Where are we?" Setryuk asked.
"I don't know, but that is not the Eekyelar Forest," Isiwaru said with certainty, gesturing to the enormous forest in front of them.
Setryuk and Dusplooma nodded in agreement. Isiwaru turned to Setryuk and gave her a strange look.
"What?" Setryuk asked, her eyes growing. "WHAT IS IT?"
"What happened to your hair?" Isiwaru asked.
Setryuk grabbed some of her hair and looked down at it. "It's…brown…how WEIRD…"
"This is definitely not Ckaloatia," Isiwaru said, again with certainty.
Again Setryuk and Dusplooma nodded in agreement.
"So what is it?" Setryuk asked.
"It could be another World…maybe the lemons live here!" Dusplooma suggested cheerfully.
"The lemons don't live any where, Dusplooma. They were eaten. By Waffle Pudding. Remember?" Setryuk said.
"No," said Dusplooma, refusing to believe this depressing story.
"I think we'd better figure out where we are instead of getting into that again," Isiwaru said as Setryuk rolled her eyes at Dusplooma.
Isiwaru paced forward and back along the forest line. "How did we get here?"
"I'm starting to think our neighbors weren't lying after all. About their magic, I mean," Setryuk said.
"Yeah," Isiwaru agreed. "But why were they saying that their magic's never worked before?"
Setryuk thought for a moment. "Well, remember one of them said it had never worked 'in this World' before? So maybe they're from another world. Maybe they're from here."
"Ok," Isiwaru said, "but then why did it suddenly work and send us here?"
"It could have something to do with the fact that they got really mad at us. Maybe intense anger increases their power. And maybe it increased it enough so that it actually worked," Setryuk said.
"Then how do we get back?" Dusplooma asked.
"If we knew that, we'd be back," Setryuk said agitatedly.
"WHOA!" Isiwaru said suddenly, spinning around and facing the opposite direction of the forest.
Setryuk and Dusplooma turned around to look at what Isiwaru was looking at. There was, to their surprise, a giant castle off in the distance. Even from where they stood it looked big. They could only imagine what it was like up close.
"That…is bigger than any donkey in any bookstore could ever have described to a monkey," Isiwaru said finally.
"Yes," Setryuk and Dusplooma agreed. "And that's saying something," Setryuk added.
"Should we try seeing if anyone lives there? Maybe they'll know something about how we get back," Setryuk said.
"Maybe," Isiwaru said.
But all three Odds knew this was very unlikely. The chances of the people in the castle knowing how to reverse the sorcerers' magic were very slim. It would probably be a long time before they ever saw Ckaloatia again.