Chapter 21

“I cannot leave my home here. This is the place where I must watch out for people coming in and out of this world,” Cecrops explained. “The portal to the next world is behind my house, and I must guard it. I have to know who goes through it. The last person I saw go through was Olozar, and I couldn’t stop him.” He paused. “Look how that turned out. I have to make sure no one else tries to come after you three after you pass through the portal.”

“But where does this portal go?” Chloe asked curiously.

“I assume the fairies explained to you that Portalia is a universe in which portals connect different worlds?” Cecrops asked them.

“Yes,” Julie replied. “But they didn’t tell us what the other worlds are like.”

“That is because they do not know,” Cecrops said. “I am the only one on Portalia Island who knows of the worlds that connect Portalia Island to the final desti