“You two have far too active an imagination,” Aahz said as he pulled out the map and opened it.
Again it had changed.
I kept sipping my carrot juice as I studied the parchment. Bank, the town we were in, was the main town on the map now. And the treasure was now located in a city called Placer. Three roads left Bank and headed off in three directions, all, in one fashion or another, getting to Placer after a few more towns.
“Now which way?” I asked, staring at our options.
They were towns called Chip, Pie, and Biscuit. Weird names. Everything about this dimension was starting to seem weird to me.
Tanda pointed to one of the towns. “Following Skeeve’s plan of going to towns that start with the letter B, we head for Biscuit.”
“Sounds good to me,” I said.
Aahz just shook his head in amazement.
“As good as any, I suppose.”
He studied the map for a moment more and then folded it up and put it away.
Biscuit was on the road that stayed north going out the west side of Bank. I doubted it would be hard to find. I took another sip while Tanda wrinkled her nose at my drink and me.
“It’s an acquired taste,” I said, realizing what I was doing. I had finished almost half the glass.
I offered the rest to her, but she shook her head.
“No, thanks. Not in a million years.”
I shrugged and took another drink. The stuff wasn’t bad at all, once you got past the initial taste of smashed and juiced carrots.
“So how you feeling?” Aahz asked.
“He’s going to have to rest,” Tanda said, not letting me answer.
“I know that,” Aahz said. “I was just wondering how we were going to do that. We don’t dare go back to the cabin because Glenda might be there. I don’t want to deal with her just yet. So we have to find some private spot.”