As the girls looked around, Ashta looked up at the first floating mountain that was beside her, and surprisingly, she saw something gold and shiny sticking out of the bushes up there. The bottom of the floating piece of land had clumps of dirt on its bottom and there were vines and roots hanging off the edge. Ashta grinned at Riah and she pointed up to the shiny object.
“Riah, up there!” she said happily, and Riah looked up.
“How do you suppose we get up there?” she asked, and Ashta looked around.
There had to be some way to get up to the top. Curiously, Ashta studied the flat rocks that had fallen on the side of the steep stone wall where the mechanism was, and she realized that she could leap off of those rocks and grab onto the vines or roots. She decided the roots would probably
