Behind him, the knights of Team Grail were tethered together, mountaineer-style, with a single rope. Artie was first, then Kay, Bedevere, Thumb, Bercilak, and, finally, Numinae. “Who knows what we’ll find in there,” Artie had warned as he looped the climbing rope around each of them. “If it’s lik...
Dred had spent the better part of the day beating on the wooden door of his dark cell, cursing the hoary guards who’d dragged him there and the witch-mother who’d cast him away. For hours, the jailers got a kick out of taunting him and calling him names. It was amazing how fast they’d turned on h...
Their minds raced, so they didn’t talk much until they got back onto the road. Breaking their silence, Kay asked, “So what’s the deal, Tommy—the pigeons, the giant bird, the chestnut tree—those are all things that are more or less extinct on our side, right?” Thumb said, “That’s right, Kay. As Me...