A couple hours later...
"Ok, so now, here we are Nowhere, but there's this slight problem..." started Cisca
"What?" inquired Bekki
"There's nothing to do!" ended Kevin.
"They're right," agreed Nikki, still hanging on to Ron's leg. "I'm bored."
"Alright...then, let's go buy an adventure!"
"Buy an adventure!!??" asked Kevin, Ron, and Will simultaneously and incredulously.
"Yeah, let's go to the Adventure Store, they sell exciting adventures very cheaply," agreed Cisca.
"Yeah, you know, once I got this really cool adventure with the Devil from there...and it only cost $5!" added Nikki.
The boys stared at them in disbelief.
"C'mon you guys, how do you think we got to Nowhere in the first place?" Lauren pointed out. "We bought an adventure at The Adventure Store, and then started walking, and we ended up in Nowhere, met Trist, and everyone knows the rest."
"You bought an adventure in a store?" inquired Kevin again, still incredulous.
"We've been through this! Now, Bekki, get us to this Adventure Store, I'm getting impatient," cried Nikki.
"You're always impatient," commented Cisca
"I am NOT!" shouted Nikki.
"Yes you are," everyone answered together.
"Why are we still here?" asked Lauren.
"Because you're all still talking. I need my concentration people!" cried Bekki.
Silence.
The next day...
"Uh, Bekki?"
"WHAT!!!!"
They were all standing, well, they were all crowding on the narrow path that led to a broken down shack. The shack, well, let's just say it was old and unsanitary, and full of cracks, and leaks, and broken window panes, and...this list could go on for a while and that would probably bore you even more than my earlier paragraph, so I'll just stop. He he he.
"So this is the Adventure Store..." began Will.
"The famous Adventure Store," continued Kevin
"Where there are so many wonderful things," finished Ron sarcastically.
"No, it's not. Obviously," Lauren answered irritably.
"Uh, Bekki?" Cisca asked again.
"WHAT!!!!" Bekki shouted again.
"Where are we?"
"I don't know!!!!"
"Trist was more successful," complained Nikki.
"Will you all shut up! I'm new to this thing. Hold on, I got it! One, two, three!
Poof! Well, really, they slid down this really long slide and then had to walk for a couple hours in Nowhere and then Bekki went 'poof', but we thought we'd save you the trouble and go straight to the 'poof'!
"Now, this is more like it!" exclaimed everyone together. The Adventure Store... (The author sighs dramatically): calling it The Adventure Store is a bit of an understatement. It was more of an Adventure Palace, or an Adventure Temple...you get the basic idea. It was, purely and simply, enormous. And there is nothing more to say.
When you entered the lobby (full of white marble columns, splendid stained glass windows, a magnificent fountain and other ordinary accessories in a palace entrance), you could go through a variety of doors: one led to the cafeteria where you could, well, eat, another to the place where you paid (horror above horrors) and, of course, there were the rooms that "displayed the products". There were three of these in all. The first room was full of adventures on the high seas, with pirates, smugglers, deserted islands, and treasure galore. The second room (where Meara, Cisca, and Lauren had bought their last adventure) had adventures with gods, goddesses, and famous heroes. Everyone from Robin Hood to King Arthur to Aphrodite to Thor was there. Including Trist. And then there was the third room. This room, unlike the others, didn't have thousands of papers describing different adventures that had to be activated at the cashier. Instead, it had a single wooden, unornamented box. Inside this box was a single, blank sheet of paper. And that was all. Naturally, that was what the (one, two, three...how many are we?) nine (???) friends bought.
Did I say bought? I meant tried to buy. The box cost 14.95...and all they had was 14.69. In fact, the situation seemed doomed.
"Ok, so now, here we are Nowhere, but there's this slight problem..." started Cisca
"What?" inquired Bekki
"There's nothing to do!" ended Kevin.
"They're right," agreed Nikki, still hanging on to Ron's leg. "I'm bored."
"Alright...then, let's go buy an adventure!"
"Buy an adventure!!??" asked Kevin, Ron, and Will simultaneously and incredulously.
"Yeah, let's go to the Adventure Store, they sell exciting adventures very cheaply," agreed Cisca.
"Yeah, you know, once I got this really cool adventure with the Devil from there...and it only cost $5!" added Nikki.
The boys stared at them in disbelief.
"C'mon you guys, how do you think we got to Nowhere in the first place?" Lauren pointed out. "We bought an adventure at The Adventure Store, and then started walking, and we ended up in Nowhere, met Trist, and everyone knows the rest."
"You bought an adventure in a store?" inquired Kevin again, still incredulous.
"We've been through this! Now, Bekki, get us to this Adventure Store, I'm getting impatient," cried Nikki.
"You're always impatient," commented Cisca
"I am NOT!" shouted Nikki.
"Yes you are," everyone answered together.
"Why are we still here?" asked Lauren.
"Because you're all still talking. I need my concentration people!" cried Bekki.
Silence.
The next day...
"Uh, Bekki?"
"WHAT!!!!"
They were all standing, well, they were all crowding on the narrow path that led to a broken down shack. The shack, well, let's just say it was old and unsanitary, and full of cracks, and leaks, and broken window panes, and...this list could go on for a while and that would probably bore you even more than my earlier paragraph, so I'll just stop. He he he.
"So this is the Adventure Store..." began Will.
"The famous Adventure Store," continued Kevin
"Where there are so many wonderful things," finished Ron sarcastically.
"No, it's not. Obviously," Lauren answered irritably.
"Uh, Bekki?" Cisca asked again.
"WHAT!!!!" Bekki shouted again.
"Where are we?"
"I don't know!!!!"
"Trist was more successful," complained Nikki.
"Will you all shut up! I'm new to this thing. Hold on, I got it! One, two, three!
Poof! Well, really, they slid down this really long slide and then had to walk for a couple hours in Nowhere and then Bekki went 'poof', but we thought we'd save you the trouble and go straight to the 'poof'!
"Now, this is more like it!" exclaimed everyone together. The Adventure Store... (The author sighs dramatically): calling it The Adventure Store is a bit of an understatement. It was more of an Adventure Palace, or an Adventure Temple...you get the basic idea. It was, purely and simply, enormous. And there is nothing more to say.
When you entered the lobby (full of white marble columns, splendid stained glass windows, a magnificent fountain and other ordinary accessories in a palace entrance), you could go through a variety of doors: one led to the cafeteria where you could, well, eat, another to the place where you paid (horror above horrors) and, of course, there were the rooms that "displayed the products". There were three of these in all. The first room was full of adventures on the high seas, with pirates, smugglers, deserted islands, and treasure galore. The second room (where Meara, Cisca, and Lauren had bought their last adventure) had adventures with gods, goddesses, and famous heroes. Everyone from Robin Hood to King Arthur to Aphrodite to Thor was there. Including Trist. And then there was the third room. This room, unlike the others, didn't have thousands of papers describing different adventures that had to be activated at the cashier. Instead, it had a single wooden, unornamented box. Inside this box was a single, blank sheet of paper. And that was all. Naturally, that was what the (one, two, three...how many are we?) nine (???) friends bought.
Did I say bought? I meant tried to buy. The box cost 14.95...and all they had was 14.69. In fact, the situation seemed doomed.