8
THE JOURNEY BEGINS
'You're not coming with us?' Michael asked Wilhelmina as she packed her old clothes into the pumpkin carriage, ready to leave.
It was late afternoon, and after several hours of discussion and Hogwash's discovery of a large bundle of maps hidden in the observatory, they had finally come up with a plan to find the Desrai.
According to the most recent map that Ramble had sketched before he'd left for The Outside, the remnants of the Desrai were lying low in the mountains. They were the same mountains Wilhelmina had told him about, the ones where Medusa – no, Melusa, she was called in this world – had lived before she was killed. Her two Gorgon sisters were thought to have perished not long afterwards, in a fight over Melusa's possessions, so the mountains had been uni
