| 1 |  | Hawk kicks elves off the airship. Purebreeze wants Hawk to continue to drive them her way so she can gut the swine. Hawk is mad that he has tried to bring peace to the kingdom and they have turned on him. Dao calls out, "Hey Purebreeze, leave some for me, will you?" Leaf huddles into a hiding place with other slave boys, possibly Tyso and Jethel, telling them they are crazy. The crew is all finished or jumped off. Hawk tells Purebreeze to grab the tiller and swing them over to two elves on a ledge––Falcon and Kim, who climb aboard. Dao sees Kim and thinks, "One of my clan?" Falcon asks Kim and Dao to help him swing the power magnet over to the bow position. Dao gets on it behind Kim, "Hold on, my friend." Kim closes his eyes, "I'm called Kim." Windy has zapped Turo out of the dragon's guts to a roof and then wants to jump off with him. Instead they go into a window. Windy tells Turo about a woman who played music and it felt so right. Turo asks if he sang. Windy tells him he knew he wouldn't understand. Greylone, a Rat Being, the other wizard Spod, Eggbert whose truss dropped, and a Srith come running at them. The Rat Being jumps at them but Windy, Turo in his arms, jumps out a window. The Rat Being falls to his doom. Windy tells Turo he has to lose some weight. Spod wants to show Windy card tricks. Eggbert tells Greylone that Turo is his son. Turo seems completely naked now. He points to the pretty boat. Windy says, "The dragon's returning, dummy." Hawk jumps to the rooftop off the airship, "Turo, you brat, where have you been?" Windy tells him. Turo tells them that there were other boys in the dragon. Hawk points his sword and Windy uses it to fire electric at the dragon which flies at them. It seems Windy fries the boys inside the dragon! I guess they had to die. Windy then gets himself, Hawk, and Turo to the airship with the last of his powers. Greylone yells, "Erickson! I hate you!!" The dragon blows up and the whole city goes up. Purebreeze figures that is the end of the war but Falcon figures some other jerk will come along to cause trouble. You wait, he tells her. Windy says, "And we'll be able to face them together." Hawk hugs the two boys, "Let's go home, friends!" |
| |  | Simon and Neji laugh at Lee who is playing what Simon calls Indiana Idiot. Lee is dressed with a whip, a hat, a jacket and well, like Indiana Jones in his quest to find the star stone. He tracks to someplace but finds Simon and Neji there first...they simply followed the nature walk trail. Perri is with them, made that Kohl meant for him to stay with these three cretins. Neji says, "You're really turning into a shit, Perri, you know?!" Half way up Lone Tree Cliff, Tapiet and Foxfire find the 10th lone tree and there are more. They split up and Tapiet doesn't feel so good. Lee has blown up at the others for teasing him and runs into Tapiet just as he and Foxy split up. He asks for information which a Book like Tapiet must give when asked——it is his prime directive——furnish info. Lee says, "Nice outfit, dude." It looks like Tapiet is wearing a nightie one piece. Tapiet thinks,"Shit! Of all the assholes to stumble on a book's compulsion." Lee thinks someone did a good job pounding politeness into him. He wonders if the same would happen if Lee asked him to do his homework for him. With rings under his eyes, Tapiet runs. Tapiet shifts into the dimension known as faerie. He still doesn't feel good. On his map now is no star stone but some kind of winged creature. Tapiet realizes that every boy in Skillyhope is running around looking for Faerie ferrets. He is glad he doesn't go to school. Map is by Lucienne Kennedy. Fox catches up to him and they go back to mortal world. Simon and Neji see them and make fun that the little kid who flits around in the absolute zero of space has a cold. One hour later and with a fever of 103, Tapiet says, "Those shits! We gave up all our natural powers to do everything their way. And when we get sick because of it, they laugh." Koogie, a squirrel again, has a cap on. Tapiet is sick. |