Chapter 27Zofia's stomach loopty-looped when she lowered her head to enter the portal. She felt the tell-tale tingle of the ley line, which housed the portal. Since Richard was an Ugwump, he could not enter the Portal. She felt safe to continue without his following her. Good riddance. The Stone's glow lent a soft luminescence to a tunnel of solid limestone. A cool draft surrounded her, wafting an odd, moist scent to it.
A cave? She hated caves. There was no telling what lie ahead. She couldn't tell if this was a shuttle portal, or a parallel portal. Parallel portals would move her into a parallel world. A shuttle Portal would merely place her somewhere else in her own world. She could be miles away, or merely a few feet away in an undiscovered cave. She hoped for the latter, since she wa
