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“Alright, settle down,” he said. “That’s a lot of questions. Let’s deal with the easy ones first. Where are we? We’re in my office. What’s going on? One of my agents, Paul, got wind of you two trying to sneak out of the tower-zone and followed you. He caught up to you and brought you here. We dropped Casey off at home, so she’ll have questions for you when she wakes up in her own bedroom, confused.”
So that man who put them to sleep worked for the climber president and not the Archer family?
“That man’s trait is that he can put people to sleep?” asked Max.
“Precisely,” said the climber president. “Pretty nifty ability, huh?”
“And about that warehouse?” asked Max, now sitting upright at the side of the bed.
The climber president sighed. “Now, we get to the difficult part. Are you sure you want to know what you saw? Both you and I will be breaking the law by doing so.”
The climber president looked Max directly in the eye with a very serious expression.
The man was not kidding around.
Max took a deep breath. There was so much he didn’t understand about Zestiris, the outer-rim, the tower-zone, and the tower itself. The answers to these questions would only help in his overall goal to find his sister. He couldn’t let himself miss out on an opportunity like this.
“Go on,” said Max. “I want to know everything you’re willing to tell me.”
“You’re just as Sakura had described to me,” smiled the old man. “A keen bean. Well, then. What do you think you saw in that warehouse?”
There was only one thing that the glowing light in that warehouse reminded him of. He had been afraid to say it out loud when he first saw it, but he wouldn’t be afraid any more.
“Was it a...teleporter?”
“Yes,” said the climber president.
“But wouldn’t that mean—”
“Exactly what you think it means,” said the climber president. “The tower-zone, the outer-rim, all of Zestiris exists on a floor in the tower itself.”
The information felt like a punch to the gut.
“How is that possible? What about the rest of the world? Europe? Asia? All of Earth?”
The climber president sighed once more.
“Earth was destroyed decades ago.”
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“But I thought—”