Star Date #21

Trying to get back into control of this situation I composed myself.

Shoulders back.

Okay, what’s plan now we’ve got you back? I asked him.

Well, he said, I reckon either I go back to Baba get my things and you guys stay here. Home and safe.

Or you guys jump back through that thing with me and we go see what trouble when can get into.

That made me smile.

Sadly, it also made the girl smile, a dirty smile, something I hadn’t seen her do with me before.

That made me not smile. But I sucked it up and looked at her.

So what’s it gonna be?

She smiled her dirty smile at me, at least I got a little, I thought, and then she just nodded.

I looked back at him and said: ‘I guess we’ll go with you.’

Trouble it is! Okay, hang back while I get this going.

He grasped the interdimensional bowling ball, which he referred to as ‘Hopper’ I think, and punched a hole on the ground. We three immediately fell through, along with a set of lawn chairs that was on the terrace. Together with the big, round table in the middle with the parasol sticking out.

And landed straight in Baba’s garden.