“Try looking at it now,” I said.
All three of them were looking at me as if I had suddenly grown another head.
“Someone want to explain to me what just happened?” Glenda said, taking her gaze away from me to look back at the map.
Aahz frowned as he did the same.
Tanda laughed. “Master Magician Skeeve here just solved a whole bunch of our problems.”
I stared at the map, not believing what I was seeing.
Now there was only one line from Vortex #6 to Molder, then a line from Molder to Vortex #5, then a line to a dimension called Baasss, then a line back to here, Vortex #6, then one final line to our cow dimension.
And the cow dimension now had a name.
Kowtow.
We could jump directly from here to Kowtow.
Glenda laughed and gave me the best hug I could ever remember. Her entire body pressed into mine, and I tingled in more places than I ever wanted to admit.
“My father was right,” she said as she squeezed me even harder. “You really are special.”
The sound of Aahz snorting didn’t take away one bit of my enjoyment of the moment.
Chapter Five
“That’s wild!”
J. WEST
“What kind of name is Kowtow?” I asked, pointing at our destination on the map after Glenda released me from the hug of the century.
No one answered me.
“How did you do that?” Glenda asked, staring at me. “I’ve never heard of anyone taking the magik out of a treasure map before.”
Her beautiful brown eyes were huge and there was a look of what I took to be slight worry. Then I realized that what I was seeing wasn’t worry. She was in awe of me. And having someone in awe of me was not a circumstance that often happened.