Now that my house was a home, I found I had a lot of free time on my hands. I tracked down Auni, the kid obsessed with bugs, and got a dissertation on how to catch them using his homemade smoke bombs. Halfway through his breathless description of the vari...

I was beginning to think I wasn’t dreaming after all. Two weeks had gone by since my sudden arrival in this strange place, and I was still here. Every time I went to bed for the night, I expected to wake up back in the real world, but every morning I was...

Swirling blue lights were all around me, and a formless, whispering voice filled my head. I was drifting, lost in a void without end. And then, the voices solidified into a single, woman’s voice, speaking with an accent I hadn’t heard before. “Go, now. An...