Beyond: Snillotia Trilogy Book One by Donna Wagner (books you have to read TXT) 📕

“I will make a suggestion then, Tim. The royal rooms are quite large and have multiple rooms. If I send the Queen and King’s former rooms to the backwards world, everyone should have enough space.”

Tim looked at Grandpa Mit and Grandma An, making sure that was okay with them. They had seemed pretty normal for Royals, but Tim really hadn’t been around them enough to know if they would mind sharing their space. They nodded. The rest of the grandparents and Anna’s parents had been quiet for a while. Einna cleared her throat. “Tim, our house is not far from yours, just in the next town over. Do we really all need to stay in one place?”

Tim thought about it. “I guess we don’t have to,” he said slowly.

“Yes, we do,” Anna said at the same time.

Everyone looked at Anna. She looked at her parents. She opened her mouth to try to explain and then stopped. Then she tried again, “If you go home, I’ll go with you, but I really don’t want to.”

She saw a hurt look on her parents faces. “No! That’s not what I meant! That’s why we all need to stay at Tim’s house. I want us to be together, but I don’t want to move out of Tim’s house.”

The adults looked from her to Tim, wondering if there was something between them, they were missing. Anna caught on first. “No! I’m really not explaining this right at all! If I move back home, I’ll have to change schools. I like school. I like my friends.”

“But honey,” Tre said, trying to understand, “You never went to school before. We always taught you at home.”

Tim decided to side with Anna, even though he didn’t like her reasoning. Tim knew when she thought of her friends, she was really thinking of Jason. “I agree with Anna. She and I need to stay together, in the same house,” he looked at Anna as he continued, “Not because of school or anyone at school. Anna must learn about her powers. I know that’s hard because I did it on my own. I also think we’ll be safer together.”

“Safer? The Rebels aren’t in the backwards world. Why wouldn’t we be safe at all?” Retep asked, truly worried and wondering if he’d made a mistake in coming with Tim.

Tim looked at Retep. It seemed he didn’t know much about what his father was involved in. “The Rebels, at least some of them, can get to the backwards world,” he paused, seeing the surprise on Retep’s face, “It’s a long story. I’ll explain it to you later, if you really want to know.”

Retep nodded, then asked, “So, what is this “school”? Is it like the Y? Will I have to go too?”

“It would make sense if you did, so no one gets suspicious, but it might be hard for you since you’ve never gone to school,” Anna told him.

He gave her a sharp look. “I think I’ll do quite fine, thank you.”

Tim hid a smile, as Retep channeled his father. “Well, if you come to school, you’ll have to use your backward name. You’ll draw too much attention using your name as it is. It’s definitely not a name in the backwards world and people would always question you about it.”

Retep looked at Tim with a sour look. “So, I’ll be Peter, from now on, or at least while we’re there?”

“Yes, Peter,” Tim stated, again correcting the way Retep pronounced the name.

“Maybe school isn’t for me then.”

Anna snorted as she laughed. “Well,Peter, you don’t look old enough to be done school, so depending on how long we’re there, you may not have a choice!”

Tim looked at Anna, surprised. She had sounded exactly like she did when she was annoyed with him and she was around her friends. Before he could say anything about it, Goldie interrupted. “I am ready to send the rooms now.”

She closed her large eyes, then as she opened them, she stated, “It is done.”

CHAPTER THIRTY

Retep jumped up, in surprise. "Already? We are already in the backwards world?"

His voice cracked at the end of his question. "It's magic, dear. It'll be okay. This is new for most of us, too," Grandma Aras said, trying to calm him.

Retep was breathing very quickly. He'd never felt this way before. He suddenly missed his mother and her calming effect very much. "So what do we do now?" he managed to ask between deep breaths.

"You don't do anything. I am going to see where that door opens in the house and find Adam and Myra and explain what happened. I also need to see how much time has passed here. We might need to come up with a convincing story if Anna and I have been gone awhile."

"I'm coming with you," Anna told him.

Tim nodded. He and Anna crossed the room to the door and opened it. They stared out into a dark upstairs hallway. "We're on the second floor!" Anna exclaimed in surprise.

Tim stepped into the hallway and held out his hand. Anna took it and together they left and went in search of Adam. The first door they came to was to Tim's bedroom. He glanced inside the room. "I think we may have gotten lucky. My bed looks exactly like it did when we left. Unless no one came in the room, I don't think much time passed at all while we were gone."

He entered his room and looked at the clock on his bedside table. It said it was just after midnight. Now he knew where they'd find Adam. He just didn't know what day it was. "Come on. We're going to have to wake them up."

As they stepped back into the hallway, Anna held up her hand to stop Tim from going any farther. “Someone is in the bathroom,” she said, pointing at the door that now had light peeking around the