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some awful prison, feeling miserable.”
    June winced, but then looked even more determined. “This is crazy. We have to find the Furies.” She took a breath. “And try to figure out where Tarvos’s cave might be. We need to go get Trevor out of there now.”
    “I have no idea where we were. We just climbed there through the tunnel.”
    June closed her eyes. “I’ll call King Piter and see if he knows anything about this.”
    “Okay. And I’ll see if Bethany will come with me to find the Furies.”
    June’s eyes narrowed. “You mean with us , right? Just because you’ve been off cavorting across the globe before doesn’t mean you can go on your own again. You understand?”
    “Yeah. That’s fine.” Erec actually felt relieved that his mother was coming with him. It was too much to have the responsibility for rescuing Trevor all by himself. “We need to talk to the Fates at the Oracle and see where we can find the three Furies.”
    “Good idea. I’ll call King Piter first.” She went down the hall to the computer that had the MagicNet loaded on it—their connection to the Kingdoms of the Keepers.
    Erec sat on the couch and held up a pair of magical glasses that were on a chain around his neck. He carried them with him everywhere—they let him see the person that he was missing the most. And right now that was his friend Bethany.
    He put the black plastic frames on his face. All of a sudden, everything glimmered brightly around him. It seemed like the room was moving, and it made him dizzy. He focused on the wall, and it was oddly rounded, shiny and clear. It took a moment before he realized that he was inside a giant bubble—or at least that’s where he was seeing that Bethany was. The shiny bubble wall was lined with a multitude of smaller bubbles, each shimmering with rainbow hues. Darker striped things on them were hard to make out, but on closer look they were books. Tons of books were everywhere, lining the bubble shelves.
    It took a minute to find Bethany within all the wobbling, book-filled bubbles. She was sitting at a wooden desk that contrastedstrangely with the bubble room, scribbling on a pad of paper and furiously paging through a thick math book.
    “Bethany?”
    She dropped her pencil. “Erec? Is that you?” She searched all around, unable to see him—Erec’s glasses only let her hear him, even though he could see her.
    “I’m here—I mean, I have my Seeing Eyeglasses on. Are you okay?”
    “Hey, Erec! Yeah, I’m great.” She settled back in her chair, a smile appearing on her face. “This place is so cool. Queen Posey gave me a huge suite to stay in with a bunch of rooms and servants. It’s kind of like when I lived at King Piter’s castle.” Her eyes gleamed with excitement. “It’s been great having time to read and work on my new math book. This one disproves my last book, which is pretty neat ’cause it totally changes the whole basis of math. The upper-level topology was all wrong, but there was no way to show it by proofs. So now the time-space continuum can be seen more realistically . . .” She laughed. “I’m sorry. I could talk about this for days. How are things going at your mom’s place?”
    “Terrible.” Erec told her about everything from the bullfighter to losing his soul. “I have to fix all of this right away. But if Tarvos is right, then I might turn evil at any time. You know me better than anyone—would you hang out and keep an eye on me? If I start acting weird you can let me know when I still am able to do something about it.”
    “Of course! Oh, poor Trevor. We have to find him, fast. Do you have any ideas? I can’t believe he’s still in that cave! And your soul . . . This is awful.” A hopeful look crossed her face. “I’m really glad to help, and of course I’ll keep an eye on you if you want. But . . . is that the only reason you wanted me to come with you?”
    Erec wondered what she might be thinking about. Why elsewould he want