… in Rodeo:
“The winter island,” states Baker Bloch, looking sideways from where Karoz blogger is still staring. “Maybe answers will be there. We’re on the eastern edge of Stinson now, Karoz. The line with Rodeo, let’s see, seems to run right through that peninsula. Curious — didn’t know Stinson projected over this far into the forest.
“Well let’s get off this slope,” responds Karoz. “(I’m) getting dizzy!”
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“Hmm, so we try to teleport directly into the winter isle or peninsula or whatever, Karoz, and we come back here. On this bridge where we were day before yesterday. Teleporting route.”
“Let’s fly over there,” Karoz suggested. But in checking, they remembered no flying was allowed on this land. Only walking and running. So they run.
—–
Karoz pauses to look at what he considers a rather dirty snowman…
… while Baker Bloch stares forward at what he knows could be the beating heart of the forest’s mysteries.
Crossing the bridge, he pretends to Karoz that he’s never been here before.
—–
Baker Bloch confesses to Karoz Blogger that they’re in a portal.
Sunklands 