Chapter 10

Twilight and Eglantine were having just as hard of a time as Soren. Actually it was even worse for them. Neither of them really knew where the classroom they were looking for was. "This might be it." Twilight suggested, walking to a door. He opened it and he and Eglantine walked in.

"Apparently not." Eglantine said. This was a classroom, but it was an empty classroom. And judging by the looks of it, it hadn't been used in a while.

The two turned back around. Twilight opened the door, and his eyes went wide and his mouth fell open a little. Outside, was a dark passage with blue flames for light. He shut the door and looked at Eglantine. "I'm not going crazy right? The outside world did just change."

Eglantine nodded. "I saw it too."

They both stood in front of the closed door for a while. Then Twilight sighed, realizing they couldn't stay there all day, and opened the door again. The hall was back to normal. Except there were two Others, who looked almost exactly the same, running closer, being chased by someone.

"Hey! In here." Twilight waved them over. Once the two entered Twilight shut the door, opened it again, and they were once again in the dark passage.

The four of them peered out into this hall. "Wow." One of the Others said. "A first year and already he's figured this one out."

Twilight scowled. "I may be a first year, but I've had plenty of challenges in my life."

"Oh yeah?" the one who'd spoken earlier.

"Like what?" the other one asked.

Twilight opened his mouth. Then he had to pause. He couldn't exactly say he'd fought the Pure Ones, killed their leader Kludd, and was in the war of the ember. So he settled for something vague enough it could work for Others too. At least he hoped. "I'm from the orphan school of tough learning. Never had parents, never had a home. I just travel from place to place."

Eglantine gave a cough. "Speaking of traveling, we should travel to our class."

"Not necessarily." One of the Others said. Their voices were similar, so it didn't really matter which. "See these? Just put them near the classroom, and your professor won't even notice you're missing."

"Cool." Twilight said. He reached out for them.

The other Other put up his hand. "Wait, it's going to cost you."

"Eglantine," Twilight looked at her. "You have in money left?"

Eglantine sighed and reached into her pocket. "I told you not to get anything off the trolley." She said.

Then she gave the two Others what was left of her money, and they gave her their little . . . well, whatever the things were. "Thanks." Eglantine said. "Now let's go find that classroom."

"Maybe we can find Soren's too." Twilight suggested.