And as soon as he thought of her, the corridor around him began to twist like a snake in the grass. It twisted and spiraled until, just as suddenly, it stopped. Now Eliol was standing in front of a door.
He reached out and opened it, and as he blinked, he suddenly found himself standing on the banks of a wide river. All around him, flowers swayed in the breeze — the same ones he had seen in the Baron’s garden. And the river turned out to be just a huge pond — the same one where the carp swam. Only now they were huge creatures.
Sitting on the bank, doing something with the sand, was Tisseh. Instead of her elaborate dresses, she wore a simple nightgown and nothing else.
Eliol looked at the sky and saw cookies instead of clouds and the usual blue there. Chocolate cookies floated above his
