“Dreading what I would see—not, please not, the skeletal horror that brought me here—I opened my sticky, smarting eyes. I lay in a small bare room with no roof under a starlit sky. A dark flag stirred overhead on a pole, like a huge, sleepy bat stretching and curling up again. That was the source of the flapping noise.
I wasn’t alone. Someone sat in a corner where two walls met, bent over with his head on his knees.
“Kevin,” I whispered. He didn’t move. “Kevin, is that you? Where are we?”
He said drearily, “Sky Castle on the Black Cliffs. It’s supposed to be a fort against evil, but it’s his place now. He’s taken us prisoner, and I have nothing to fight him with.”
I saw starlight twinkling in at four small windows, one in each wall. Sky Castle? Were we floating in the sky? Though all my stiff muscles protested, I got up and wobbled over to look out of the single little doorway.
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