Hey! Oh my gosh! wow! this is the last chapter! (there's an epiloge!) Thank you all so much for reading and stiking with me for this! You guys mean a lot to me so thank you!😀
Oh so sneaky foreshadowing in here..pay close attention...
Let us begin...
Chapter 60 The End of This Story but the Beginning of the Next
The Ball had ended, everyone had gone home, or the ones who lived a very long distance away stayed in the village. Ruby and her family found a little cottage in the village where they could stay. The Wingfeathers were sitting in front of a fireplace in the castle living room.
Leeli was braiding Sara's hair, while all of them were talking about
the wonderful day they had. Except for Janner, he was writing in his book. It was sort of his dream situation, actually sitting in front of a warm fireplace writing a book that he had been writing ever since Glipwood, with all of his family and loved ones sitting beside him.
Kalmar seemed to notice that Janner wasn't paying attention to anything that he was saying so he decided to have some fun with this.
“So Janner, what did you think when the space aliens from planet,
um…Nebulaya came and attacked the Ball?” No response, “Okay well what did you think when the....uh Nightmare stampede from uh... Lumiayara trampled over everyone?” Still nothing.
“Hey want me to tell Sara what we all disussed after uncle Artham left for Dugtown?”
“Huh?” Janner finally said, looking up from his book.
“Finally!” Kalmar said playfully, frowning.
“Sorry Kal. It's just that I only have one word left. Then I can answer
your questions. And oh, Nebulaya and Lumiayara are not places or planets. I don't even know what those would be.”
“Fine, write your word.”
Janner went back to writing in his book as he wrote the last word.
He closed the book and said, “Done!”
“With what?” Nia asked.
“Remember, back in Glipwood when you told me to write a poem but
I had too many things on my mind so you said to just write what I thought? Well, I've been doing that ever since then, cataloging everything that's happened in our lives up until this very second. Then a while ago I got the bright idea to make it into a book. So I did and I'm finished with the first one. I'm going to make more than one. I even gave this one a cliffhanger so of course I need another one.”, he explained.
“I want to see it!” Kalmar said. Janner handed the book over to him
and he quickly flipped to the very back and started to read where it said “Epilogue”.
“I just need a name for it.” Janner said, as Kalmar was eagerly
reading, his eyes getting wider and wider as he read every word.
“What about ‘Wingfeather Wars?’” Oskar suggested.
“That's cool but…” Janner said, when Leeli interrupted him.
“How about “The Epic Tales of the Lost Jewels of Anniera!” she said, spreading her hands out, picturing what the book would look like in her head.
“That's nice too but….”
“What about “The Adventures of the Wingfeather Family?” Esben
suggested.
“Those are all nice but…” Janner said, trying to say what he was
trying to say, but everyone kept interrupting him.
“I think I'm going to call it: “The Wingfeather Saga!” he said.
They all looked up at him, all except for Kalmar, and nodded in agreement because this sounded like an excellent name for a book series.
“What do you think, Kal?” Janner said, noticing that Kalmar never
raised his head.
“Yeah, just a second..” he mumbled. A few seconds later Kalmar
started shouting at the book saying, “No, no, no, no, no!!!”
Then he turned to Janner, threw his arms up and said, “How could
you possibly end your book with a cliffhanger! And not just any cliffhanger but you dying! Then on top of that, we are about to go to the First Well!”
“I said that I was going to write another book,” Janner said, amazed at the fact that he got such a reaction from his brother.
“Still you cannot do that to your readers. I mean what's going to
happen? Are you going to live? Are we going to go to the First Well? Does the First Well even work, if we find it? Is our father gonna come back? Do we get a coronation? Will Sara ever find her parents or not? Are you and Sara ever going to talk about your life choices? What happens, Janner!?” he screamed, shaking Janner by the shoulders.
“You know what happens, you lived it.”
“Still, answer me!”
Janner stood up near the fireplace and said, “Kalmar, think about it,
who would ever end a book with a cliffhanger that is world ending and not write another book? That's just plain cruel.”, he said, maneuvering his hands to show how ridiculous this scenario would be.
“Still you have to write another book, Janner, you have to! I mean
you actually got me excited about a book!”
“I know and I know we will have many, many more adventures and I will write about them all in ‘The Wingfeather Saga’”.
You see what I did with the end?😏
This is really good!
Yeah, I can see what you did lol. Was the epilogue a part of this chapter, or is it seperate?