![]() ![]() All he really wants to do, though, is escape so he can find his friends. Cole will have the especially deadly job of scout, until he has flown fifty missions-if he lives that long. Average life expectancy is measured in weeks. These folks literally live on the edge of the world, and plunder the castles that float by on clouds. Before he can free them, Cole is betrayed, snatched, marked as a slave, and sold to the sky raiders. ![]() Some of them are to be delivered to the High King, who is interested in kids with Shaping potential which is basically Outskirts lingo for magic. Cole’s friends have been captured by a team of slavers, and are being hauled to market. It’s a world where magic, or something like it, is possible. ![]() But the hole in the basement floor proves to be a portal to another world-and it’s a one-way trip.Ĭole arrives in the Outskirts. ![]() His plan is just to find out where the kids are being taken, so he can report back to the police. Cole manages to hide until everybody has gone down the hole, wondering how anyone could think of getting away with kidnapping so many kids at once. But the basement is already nearly full of caged kids waiting to be forced down a ladder in the floor. When Cole and his sixth-grader friends troop down the basement steps to view a spooky Halloween house of horrors, they’re more worried about whether they’re too old to go trick-or-treating than about being kidnapped. ![]()
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