Georgina Adam and Eve 2/12

Eve got up from her sewing machine. “There that’s the last one; now let’s see if they fit properly!”

Adam looked critically at the clothes that had just been finished. “I hope you know what you’re doing, they look rather strange to me.”

“I can assure you that they’re as near as I can remember to the sort of thing that the locals at Lurbridge wear. Dressed in these, we can move around without looking like strangers. I’ve got enough of the right sort of money to last us for quite some while and so long as we don’t open any doors in the wrong place again, we should be able to have a lot of interesting walks!”

They decided to take a waterproof bag to bundle up their everyday clothes after they’d changed, then hide it amongst the undergrowth at the edge of the old charcoal burner’s clearing. That way they would only appear strange for a short distance in their own world before opening the door to the alternate world.

“No time like the present,” said Eve, “let’s go and give it a try now.”

Within the hour, two very well dressed peasants stepped through a door onto the hills near Lurbridge. Not too far away hiding amongst the bushes, Georgina saw them arrive.

‘What ever do they think they look like?’ she thought, ‘they really must be from ever so far away. If any peasant around here used cloth like that to dress themselves, they would probably be locked up for stealing.’

“Let’s go and see Tasmin the lady dragon I told you about and have a chat. We’ll also have to pass the witches at the shop and I’m sure they’ll tell us if our disguise is not good enough!”

Adam and Eve headed for the bridge over the river. As Eve expected, there was a shout from underneath them as they put foot on the bridge itself.

“’Ere come on, you should know better than that, where’s me riddle?”

“Which animal has most legs, a cow or no cow?” said Eve laughing at the strange expression on Adam’s face.

“Sounds as stupid as usual,” said Gordon, as he wrote down the words, “no cow has more than four legs, these riddles get dafter every time! Hey wait a minute that’s the answer isn’t it! I must be getting really good at this if I can work out the answer before I’m told.”

As they walked across, Eve explained to her husband how Gordon was a real troll who lived under the bridge and actually took riddles as payment for allowing people to cross, instead of asking riddles himself and eating anyone who couldn’t get the right answer in the traditional way. Then together they walked off along the road towards Esmerelda’s shop and the talking dragon.

Back up in the hills, Georgina activated their door, then popped through quickly and had a look around. Strangely there were two clearly marked perfectly good postholes only a few inches away. Now why on earth would those two want to make their own door, when there was already a well established one close by? She hurried along the path until she could find a clue as to where she was.

It didn’t take too long before she could hear strange sounds just ahead of her. Then at last, as she carefully climbed a small rise, she discovered the reason. In front of her was a very wide road with brightly coloured carts rushing along it in either direction. She’d heard about the stories that George told of this place, or one very much like it, from some of the people she’d met in her travels. Unless she was very much mistaken this was Jennifer Jane’s world!

To her surprise the proper door was in use as she returned. A person who was obviously a witch had just stepped through and in her turn looked rather surprised to see Georgina.

“It’s quite alright,” called Georgina as she approached. “There’s an unofficial door been opened near Lurbridge and I was just checking where it led.”

“Oh that’ll be that witch who’s a neighbour of Jennifer Jane’s. Do you know I had to teach her the spell to open a door! It seems they don’t use much magic in their world, even though she’s in the same group as Jennifer Jane. MAGIC, she called it and she said young Jane is also a junior member of her group.”

“That’s very interesting, thank you. If it’s all the same to you I’ll go back through their door, it saves a lot of time if you’re going to Lurbridge!”

She walked slowly back to her hiding place above the village, thinking hard, there had to be some way to turn this situation to her advantage!