Chapter Twenty Nicknacks, Blizzard, and I were cuffed in blue glue; it wasn’t much, but it was more than enough to keep us from escaping or fighting back against our captors efficiently. Thankfully, Blizzard and I were still allowed to wear our environs, but we weren’t allowed to carry our bomb staffs, which were whisked away to parts unknown. I assumed that they were probably going to destroy the staffs or at least put them somewhere we wouldn’t be able to get them very easily. We were marched off of the ship, but instead of being taken away to some prison, we were marched toward the energy center itself. That puzzled me, but Arelez did not say why we were going there. The only ‘explanation’ he offered was that the Mother World told him to take us there, which was hardly much of an expl

