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Chapter 135

"Welcome to Emerald City. I shadow-ported you." Correction. A hidden green version, accessed by my brother.

"No points for originality, but many for portalling, O, great and powerful Oz."

"Thanks. Hadn't realized I could bring passengers." Ari laughed. "Fear and surprise. Chief weapons."

"Don't forget that fanatical devotion to the Pope," I said. "So how does this work?" I fanned out my shirt, sticky with sweat. "And why is it so hot?"

"It's always like this. Near as I can figure, it's the energy I'm generating manifesting this pathway. Emerald City conforms to our spatial universe but lets me jump across our world in leaps and bounds. Have shadow, will travel. Watch."

Ari winked into existence on the far side of the quad by a large concrete flower pot. The dark outlines of the North Shore Mountains were visible in the distance.

He was back with me a second later. "Cool, huh?"