Chapter Three The journey starts

"Jem"

"Jem"

Now this was quite unusual, thought Emma. Jem doesn't ever sleep, even when he is snoring. He sleeps so lightly that the merest whisper normally wakes him. But not this time. Emma wondered if she should be worried. Perhaps he really is sound asleep and lost in deep slumbers and has drifted away. Then she decided to think in small, calculated, steps.

What had we, had he, been doing, before we, he, had fallen asleep? She thought hard and realised she had totally forgotten what they had been doing in the afternoon. Must have been at school, she thought.

Only one thing left to do now...

"JEREMY" she yelled at the top of her voice.

"Of course it is" said a deaf Jeremy, his ears still ringing from this sudden blast. "Are you practising to be an alarm clock?"

Emma was both relieved and deafened as her shout had surprised even herself; lucky there was no-one else in the room and the TV was on loud downstairs.

"Come on" she said as she jumped off the bed and onto the chair she had put in the middle of the room. "We're off on an adventure!"

"OK" said the still sleepy Jeremy. He fell out of bed, onto the floor and crawled over the second chair in the middle of the room. He was still asleep and this little journey took rather a long time. Eventually he sat up in the chair, looked at his sister and said, brightly,

"Where are we going this time?"

"Dragon-land"

"Where?"

"Dragon-land" said Emma, for the second time.

"Where" said Jeremy, also for the second time and this time with a little tremor in his voice.

"Oh never mind" said Emma, wanting to get on with it. " Set your phone"

Jeremy, during his slow crawl into the chair had wondered why the chair was bumpy. He sat on one side and felt the bump: it was his mobile.

Emma and Jeremy looked around the room, they both checked that the door was closed and the curtains drawn very tightly. This was their secret and no-one was to know. They pointed their mobiles at each other and really concentrated. This was the tricky bit and they knew they had to think just of two things.

"Dragon-land"

and the very very secret password. They tapped the password number into their phones . pointed the phones at each other and went

"one"

"two"

"three"


" " (that was another very very secret bit)

and whoooooosh.

The chairs were empty