Tradewinds 09 CH 12The one his companions called George continued to prowl the outskirts of the thirty-foot-high perimeter wall that seemed to surround him on all sides, looking for a way to proceed.Bounded on all sides by this massive wall was a carnival. Ordinarily, he would consider this a good thing, but the whole thing stood empty, deserted, defunct. And he wasn’t sure what it made him feel more, sad or spooked. The dormant bulbs, dim, muted colors, dirt and garbage strewn everywhere, the sense of utter abandonment, haunted him.Though increasingly uncomfortable in this bizarre place, George still looked out at it with those same staring brown eyes, that same dull expression, that caused most people to conclude that he was retarded or something. As with Chase, Kato had been right on the mark. Just an inch or two taller than Justin, with short, uncombed brown hair. He was indeed unable to speak, for whatever else had happened in his childhood, the one thing anyone knew for sure was that somebo
Tradewinds 09 CH 10By the thirty-somethingth maddeningly familiar dining room, Kato had long since lost count.She now wandered among the kind of kitchens that are always seen and never used. After a while, she just shrugged her shoulders, deciding not to make such a big deal out of it, but it was getting on her nerves. Though she was beginning to realize that this place was a lot bigger than she expected, she had heard of things like this before. Had lived in this world her whole life, while Max and Shades seemed to gawk at everything like a child, Shades tried to act cool but kept hinting that he was from someplace else, and Justin, who came from the same neighborhood as she, seemed to have lived under some rock all his life.Still, she was beginning to wonder if she hadn’t underestimated this place. Not so much that the building was real— her search for the Tri-Medals had taken her to some strange places— as it was that she had to be prowling aro