EPILOGUE

Mr. van Leer's POV

Deep into the fantasy land of yet another book I fell. I was fighting dragons and rode on broomsticks, ducked from the green flashes of a dark wizard, and leapt out of the way of an angry giant, almost stepping on me, surprising me by its height. The land became a part of me, or rather, I became a part of it. Then the phone rang.

"Van Leer, hello," I said into the phone, setting my book down gently, as if I could hurt the fantasy world I was engulfed in for the past two hours.

"Is Elijah there?" a girl's voice came from the...