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The Wishing Map

Chapter Twenty-Three: Return to Rennou (Continued)

Previously: Gina’s sword had led them to Rennou, the place of her greatest disgrace.

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Gina jumped up onto the Great Porch.  “Puff?  B’frona?”  She ran across the scarred platform, grabbed the big dragon-tail door latches, and pulled open the double doors.

Zack found his sister standing in front of a magnificent lespin-wood staircase, shouting, “Puff?  It’s me!”  She walked half-way up the stairs and called several more times, then sat down, perplexed and confused.

Gina lurched forward.  For a moment Zack thought it was a threatening response to his question, but then he realized it was the sword urging her to move again.

They left the Manse is silence.

The sun had been down for half an hour.  They walked toward the…