his way through the problem. What did the Lorkon want more than anything, besides Jacob? Well, to break into Taga Village. They’d been working on that for some time. In fact, just the other day, they’d sent more Yoons to the entrance. Jacob had tested it and again found that nothing had occurred that would disturb the integrity of the seal he’d put in place.
What else did they want to accomplish?
To gain unlimited access to all the worlds and all the things in them, right? In order to do that, they needed the Key of Kilenya . . . but that came with Jacob. And they’d been very unsuccessful at keeping him in their possession.
What about objects? What did they want for themselves? The Key of Kilenya. And the Key of Ayunli.
Jacob wiped the sweat off his face, then paused. That had to be it. They were going after the Key of Ayunli and didn’t want Jacob and his group to know.
Yeah? Well, they’d have to beat him to it first.
Chapter Five: The Other Key
Jacob rushed inside, up the stairs, and dropped his ball and towel on the floor of his room. He said hi to Early, then looked at the sun for ten seconds. He sat on his bed and started to search for the Key of Ayunli.
After only a moment, the Key lit up, making it possible for him to follow it anywhere. Jacob couldn’t believe how much easier it was this time to find the Key. Last time, it had nearly killed him, but now, he only felt a moment of pain.
Over several years, the Key made its way completely around the world of Eklaron and then to Gevkan. Then in the early 1900s, a man in a cloak and robes took the Key through a link to Earth.
It was so weird that people on Eklaron knew all about Earth, while people on Earth had no clue about the other planet.
The man gave the Key to an elderly woman in a busy city. Jacob wasn’t very well traveled, so he didn’t recognize the place—it could have been somewhere in America or Canada or even Europe.
The elderly woman passed the Key down to her granddaughter, who watched over it for forty years. She took it everywhere with her, wearing it on a chain around her neck. When she started to look frail and fragile, she gave it to her son, a tall, lanky man who always wore bright green sweats. Gross. Judging by the style of the sweats, Jacob figured it was the eighties or nineties. Mom would know better.
The man only held on to the Key for a while. Jacob watched as he fretted over it, pacing and mumbling. From what Jacob had seen, the man had no family and no close friends. He needed to hand it off to someone, but probably didn’t know who.
Instead, he hid it in the laundry room of a house in that busy city. Jacob sped up, making sure the Key stayed there. It did. No one else found or touched it since the man put it in place behind the dryer in a hole in the unfinished wall.
Still not knowing which city this was, Jacob backed up his vision so he could see better. A tall tower dominated the skyline, and the city had been built on the shores of a big lake. Jacob immediately thought of the great lakes that separated America from Canada. Was this Chicago?
He pulled out of his vision and rushed to the family computer to do a search. He first looked up Chicago. Nope. The tower wasn’t there, and the city skyline didn’t look like the one from his vision. Then he went through all the major cities that were on the shores of lakes and oceans on and around the east side of the United States. None of them matched what he’d seen.
He broadened his search to cities on the West Coast, including Seattle. The Space Needle in Seattle looked sort of like the tower, but it wasn’t tall enough.
Jacob rubbed his eyes. It shouldn’t be this hard to figure out. Then he remembered he’d originally thought the city could be somewhere in Canada. Pulling up a map on the computer, he found all the big cities that had been built on a shore, starting in the west and moving east.
Then he found it. Toronto! That was the
What else did they want to accomplish?
To gain unlimited access to all the worlds and all the things in them, right? In order to do that, they needed the Key of Kilenya . . . but that came with Jacob. And they’d been very unsuccessful at keeping him in their possession.
What about objects? What did they want for themselves? The Key of Kilenya. And the Key of Ayunli.
Jacob wiped the sweat off his face, then paused. That had to be it. They were going after the Key of Ayunli and didn’t want Jacob and his group to know.
Yeah? Well, they’d have to beat him to it first.
Chapter Five: The Other Key
Jacob rushed inside, up the stairs, and dropped his ball and towel on the floor of his room. He said hi to Early, then looked at the sun for ten seconds. He sat on his bed and started to search for the Key of Ayunli.
After only a moment, the Key lit up, making it possible for him to follow it anywhere. Jacob couldn’t believe how much easier it was this time to find the Key. Last time, it had nearly killed him, but now, he only felt a moment of pain.
Over several years, the Key made its way completely around the world of Eklaron and then to Gevkan. Then in the early 1900s, a man in a cloak and robes took the Key through a link to Earth.
It was so weird that people on Eklaron knew all about Earth, while people on Earth had no clue about the other planet.
The man gave the Key to an elderly woman in a busy city. Jacob wasn’t very well traveled, so he didn’t recognize the place—it could have been somewhere in America or Canada or even Europe.
The elderly woman passed the Key down to her granddaughter, who watched over it for forty years. She took it everywhere with her, wearing it on a chain around her neck. When she started to look frail and fragile, she gave it to her son, a tall, lanky man who always wore bright green sweats. Gross. Judging by the style of the sweats, Jacob figured it was the eighties or nineties. Mom would know better.
The man only held on to the Key for a while. Jacob watched as he fretted over it, pacing and mumbling. From what Jacob had seen, the man had no family and no close friends. He needed to hand it off to someone, but probably didn’t know who.
Instead, he hid it in the laundry room of a house in that busy city. Jacob sped up, making sure the Key stayed there. It did. No one else found or touched it since the man put it in place behind the dryer in a hole in the unfinished wall.
Still not knowing which city this was, Jacob backed up his vision so he could see better. A tall tower dominated the skyline, and the city had been built on the shores of a big lake. Jacob immediately thought of the great lakes that separated America from Canada. Was this Chicago?
He pulled out of his vision and rushed to the family computer to do a search. He first looked up Chicago. Nope. The tower wasn’t there, and the city skyline didn’t look like the one from his vision. Then he went through all the major cities that were on the shores of lakes and oceans on and around the east side of the United States. None of them matched what he’d seen.
He broadened his search to cities on the West Coast, including Seattle. The Space Needle in Seattle looked sort of like the tower, but it wasn’t tall enough.
Jacob rubbed his eyes. It shouldn’t be this hard to figure out. Then he remembered he’d originally thought the city could be somewhere in Canada. Pulling up a map on the computer, he found all the big cities that had been built on a shore, starting in the west and moving east.
Then he found it. Toronto! That was the
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