“Hey, sleepyheads,” Tony turned back towards them, interrupting their bewilderment. “Good timing. We’re almost home.”
“Home?” Karen repeated. Both she and Carl were even more confused.
“Yep. Just a short while ago, your father radioed that the typhoon had changed course. It’s not going to hit the platform after all. So, I guess the bad news is that you won’t be going on that holiday. Not at least for a while.”
The twins looked at each other, then instinctively stuck their hands into their pockets. With a huge surprise, each withdrew a gleaming fire opal. (In her other pocket, Karen found several varieties of flowers, all of which seemed still fresh and pungent.)
“It had not been a dream after all!” they chorused with newfound joy.
But, and I hate to end a story on a sad note, while the twins were elated that all the adventures they had endured were real, that they actually experienced everything and all, they could not help but wonder what had happened to all of their friends after their sudden departure. Was Tiny freed? Were Cassandra’s parents finally allowed to return home to Derkesthai? Were the Rabbits able to restore Delightful Garden and perhaps even the Dearth Desert? What became of all the other peoples they had befriended? They didn’t know, and what was worse was the knowledge that they would probably never know. That fact made them very sad. They would never get to read the last chapter, the ending of the story, but to be forever stuck in a kind of Twilight Zone of “to be continued.”
Perhaps, however, in another adventure, they might learn of their friends’ fates. That’s all the hope the twins could leave with me, and me, in turn, leave with you.
THE END
About the Author
David is a college professor (English and Communications) for the College of Arts and Sciences at the Angeles University Foundation, Angeles City, Philippines. Among many things he has done and experienced, he was very active in church activities, including a puppet ministry and the writing and production of six children Christmas plays and three Passion plays, which have been seen in seventeen countries worldwide. He served twenty years in the United States Air Force and retired as a Captain. While his first published book was a historical non-fiction account of helicopter ambulance pilots in Vietnam, his first love has always been in the genres of science fiction and fantasy.
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