Under_The_Whispering_Door_by_TJ_Klune
“Oh no,” Mei breathed. She set down her teacup and stared at Wallace.“That’s definitely not a good idea. Wallace, you can’t—”“Don’t tell me what I can’t do!” he shouted at her, and the light bulb in oneof the sconces sizzled and snapped before the glass shattered. Wallace jerkedhis head toward it.“Uh-oh,” Nelson whispered.Wallace turned and ran.
CHAPTER6The first obstacle was the door.He grabbed for the handle.His hand passed right through it.With a strangled yell, he jumped at the door. Through the door. He openedhis eyes, finding himself on the porch of the tea shop. He looked down. Allhis bits and bobs still seemed to be attached, though the hook and cable werestill there, the latter extending back into the tea shop. Something heavy movedthunderously toward the door, and he leapt from the porch, landing on thegravel. The stars stuttered in the sky above him, the trees more ominous thanthey’d been when he’d first arrived. They seemed to bend and sway as ifbeckoning him. He stumbled when he thought he saw movement off in thetrees to his left, a great beast watching him, a crown of antlers atop its head,but it had to be a trick of the shadows because when he blinked, all he sawwere branches.He took off down the road, heading back the way he’d come earlier withMei. If he got to the village, he could find someone to help him. He’d tellthem about the crazy people in the tea shop in the middle of the woods.The hook in his chest pulled sharply, the cable growing taut as it wrappedaround his side. He almost fell to his knees. He managed to stay upright, flipflopssnapping against the bottoms of his feet. How on earth had he everthought flip-flops were a good idea?He glanced back over his shoulder toward the tea shop in time to see Meiand Hugo burst out onto the porch, shouting after him. Mei said, “Of all thestupid things” just as Hugo said, “Wallace, Wallace, you can’t, you don’tknow what’s out there—” but Wallace doubled down, running as fast as hecould.
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- Page 29 and 30: made it feel like so much more. It
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- Page 49 and 50: know I don’t have time for this.
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- Page 55 and 56: “I’m dead,” Wallace said.Hugo
- Page 57 and 58: learned from her mother, a heavyset
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- Page 61: Hugo looked at him. “You’re a g
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- Page 67 and 68: terrible as the rest of him. All so
- Page 69 and 70: “Saw one, did you?”He whirled a
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- Page 75 and 76: Hugo chuckled. “A little older th
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- Page 81 and 82: “But he’s here.”“He is,”
- Page 83 and 84: “You don’t need to sleep.”Wal
- Page 85 and 86: Wallace’s eyes bulged as he looke
- Page 87 and 88: “No.”“But you’re sitting on
- Page 89 and 90: Nelson nodded toward the sconces on
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- Page 95 and 96: The hook—always there, and he was
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- Page 103 and 104: woke up. He went to work. He stayed
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- Page 107 and 108: Mei gasped. “They do? Oh my god,
- Page 109 and 110: “Obviously,” he said faintly.
- Page 111 and 112: that’s taboo.” She looked away.
“Oh no,” Mei breathed. She set down her teacup and stared at Wallace.
“That’s definitely not a good idea. Wallace, you can’t—”
“Don’t tell me what I can’t do!” he shouted at her, and the light bulb in one
of the sconces sizzled and snapped before the glass shattered. Wallace jerked
his head toward it.
“Uh-oh,” Nelson whispered.
Wallace turned and ran.
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