Inward the boat went, closer to where the four waves moved to and faster the time came when, in moment, they met and crashed and blew and past each door came another, less dull then the last. In a monstrous crack the boat burst through the other side and caught the ripple back outward.
"HA!" Sayle laughed. "I knew it! Didn't I tell you! Didn't I!"
Rowan was too pleased to have lived to care.
"My boy we did it!" Pip hugged him. "For a sailor you are after all! Ha!"
"Gonna be honest I never knew you could actually sail." Leon remarked.
The closer they came to the end the bigger it seemed they got. Trees got smaller and smaller, faster now. It seemed they were getting faster too, gliding over fields at amazing speed. When they looked down it was as if they were high in the air, but either they had grown or the world had shrunk. Now they were moving so fast they couldn't see the trees under the glass. And at once everything became so extreme the mast stuck through the roof and the boat sent the three through the wall.
With a crack and a few rolls everyone found themselves back in their world. They were cold, aching and uncomfortable but they didn't care because of how vibrant everything was compared to that deception they escaped.
The hole they made into that world was covered by the glass water. It filled up the world like the hole wasn't there, or it couldn't go beyond it.
The kids looked around and the building was empty now, no guards, nor police, not a sight of The Kookaburra.
Everyone ran out and caught a breath.
"Strike it!" Piper said. "Bring lightning down on it dude!"
"She's lost it." Leon laughed.
Sayle thought about the rule of three but figured he'd leave it.
"There's still bombs in there!" Rowan caught on. "Wait here, I'll be a minute." And he ran off.
"Wait!" Sayle stopped him. "If Pip was inside there's gonna be information on him, right?"
"Possibly."
"We should get it! You can see who you are- well were. Before they got you." Sayle panicked.
"It's okay." Said Pip. "I have thought about it, friends. You didn't befriend the man written down on some screen. Some old story of a man. You met a scarecrow. Haven't you noticed? I'm Pip. And Pip means me."
"Pip Puwmpen." Sayle said with a smile.
"My friend." It held Sayles shoulder. "You met me at a very strange time in my life."
Lightning struck the top of the pointed roof and in a second it was in fire and smoke. The fire lasted only a few minutes. In the rubble the computer was found but without Erwin to explain its purpose it was destroyed.
After that The Kookaburra was gone. No body was found in the wreck, although she knew the plan to blow it up Piper said she was too smart to get caught in it.
When discussing their adventure Sayle heard of The Kookaburra and like Rowan, knew the name. Unlike Rowan he knew the rest of the story as well.
"Like my kookaburra?" Sayle asked.
"That's it!" Rowan leapt.
Why he had thought he knew the girl was because a character he and Sayle played. It all came back to him.
In primary Sayle wore striped ribbons on his ears and down his shorts to play tig or blocky, and he called himself The Kookaburra. When he left for secondary Rowan took the mantle and too became The Kookaburra, enjoying it much more then Sayle ever did.
"You never said you got it from your brother." Piper said.
"I guess I felt cooler if it was mine, y'know?"
"You're The Man With The Skeleton Arms now." Sayle teased.
"If you're gonna stick around you gotta be called The Silver Sailor. You can't argue!"
The others agreed it was a cool name.
"What are you two?" Sayle asked.
"Charlie and Lola?" Rowan said.
"We got time to find names." Said Leon.
"So who was that girl?" Sayle asked. "The-actual-Kookaburra. A coincidence?"
"A trick most likely."
"What else?" Piper asked.
"I really don't know."
They went back to the town.
"Santana Park." Sayle sighed. "I'm never coming back."
"Why?" Piper smiled. "There's nothing here."
"There is." Said Rowan. "I'll show you."
