No.
Something else.
I sat up, looking with disbelief to one side of me, where the machines sped along in neat rows.
Cars.
I managed to get to my feet, making my way toward them. I was in a park—and that bench looked familiar. So did that stone statue. The street signs were names I recognized.
I was home. Not InterWorld Base Town—home. My home.
My world.
Lord Dogknife had not only left me alive, he’d sent me home.
FrostNight comes, his voice whispered in my mind. And you will be alive to see it, little Walker.
The power that will reshape everything….
Binary and HEX wanted to reshape the Altiverse, to gain complete control. To make all worlds into what they wished. He had sent me home, but soon, there wouldn’t be a home. It would be erased, and I along with it.
I limped toward the intersection, breathing as deeply and as evenly as I could through the pain.
If I were not here, I would be dead. Jerzy’s voice echoed in my mind from long ago, one of the first conversations we’d had. I owe InterWorld my life.
That was true for me, too. I’d Walked by accident the first time, and had drawn the attention of HEX. They’d sent people after me, and if not for Jay, I would have been captured and killed. I would have been one of those little blue lights used to power Joaquim.
You will not be able to Walk far enough away, Lord Dogknife had said.
Still breathing deeply, I cast out for a portal. The paralyzing, mind-numbing terror I felt at the thought that I wouldn’t find one was replaced an instant later by relief strong enough to make my knees weak.
I couldn’t get back to InterWorld, but I could still Walk. I could still sense portals. I could still move between worlds. I could find more of us.
I squared my shoulders, training taking over as I continued to move despite my injuries. I wouldn’t let a few broken bones stop me, not now. I had things to do. I had the will, and a way, and more—far away from here and now, I had a ship.
And I could Walk farther than Lord Dogknife had ever dreamed.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
NEIL GAIMAN was awarded the Newbery and Carnegie Medals for The Graveyard Book. His other books for younger readers include Coraline (which was made into an Academy Award–nominated film) and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (which wasn’t). Born in England, he has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. You can learn more at www.mousecircus.com.
MICHAEL REAVES is an Emmy Award–winning television writer, screenwriter, and novelist who has published many books, including the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter. He’s won a Howie Award and been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives in California.
MALLORY REAVES is best known for her adaptations of the popular manga series After School Nightmare, which was nominated for a 2007 Will Eisner Award. She lives in Riverside, California, with six cats, several friends, a dog, a snake, and a fish.
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NEIL GAIMAN
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The Dangerous Alphabet
The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
The Graveyard Book
Instructions
M Is for Magic
MirrorMask
Odd and the Frost Giants
The Wolves in the Walls
CREDITS
Cover art © 2013 by Colin Anderson
Cover design by Sarah Nichole Kaufman
COPYRIGHT
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THE SILVER DREAM
Copyright © 2013 by Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves, and Mallory Reaves
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gaiman, Neil.
The silver dream: an InterWorld novel / story by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves ; written by Michael Reaves and Mallory Reaves.—First edition.
pages cm
Summary: After mastering the ability to walk between dimensions, sixteen-year-old Joey Harker and his fellow InterWorld freedom fighters embark on a mission to maintain peace between the rival powers of magic and science who seek to control all worlds.
ISBN 978-0-06-206796-8 (hardcover bdg.)—ISBN 978-0-06-226211-0 (intl. ed.)
[1. Space and time—Fiction. 2. Good and evil—Fiction. 3. Science fiction.]
I. Reaves, Michael. II. Reaves, Mallory. III. Title.
PZ7.G1273Si 2013
2013000028
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EPub Edition © APRIL 2013 ISBN: 9780062067982
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