Dedicated To Disney

23: One Step Closer

I blinked at the girl, my eyes widening as her words sank in. "You saw a man push you through a portal?"

She nodded warily, her gaze steely. "Yes."

"What did he look like?" I asked eagerly, my heart thumping wildly in my chest.

"I don't remember." Sara looked back over at Seth, her gaze pained. "Let us go!"

"Look," Zeke said, blinking to clear his own shock, "we need your help if you want to go home. You and Seth's. You're more flexible but Seth is a little harder to convince. If you want to be free, we need help from the both of you."

Sara hesitated, hugging herself tightly. "What do you mean?"

I bit my lip, choosing my words carefully. "Somebody is imprisoning people that aren't from this world here, but Zeke and I want to help get you all back home. With both yours and Seth's powers, we can get inside that castle over there in the distance and figure this all out. Plus, a little girl has been taken there. She needs rescuing."

Sara squinted in the direction behind us at the castle. She then pursed her lips before nodding slowly. "Very well. We-We'll help."

"Will he really?" I asked, nodding my head to Seth.

Sara nodded. "I can convince him."

"Great! Then all we have to do is wake him up and he can slip out of the restraints."

"I can get into the control room and see if I can use the computer to turn the flow of sedatives off," Zeke said. "He should wake up after that."

"Please do," Sara responded, pressing her palms against the glass.

I gave Zeke a tense smile that he returned before he was walking away into the distance at a hurried pace. I turned back to Sara, my eyes flicking over to Seth's unconscious form, the thin tube springing from his arm pumping clear liquid into him to keep him asleep. "Um...what exactly are your powers again?"

"Well, I'm telekinesis and telepathy, to keep it basic," she said. "But Seth is more complicated. He has the ability to control his molecular density; which allows him to phase through solid objects or withstand greatest of impacts."

"Oh." I nodded, trying to look smart, though I felt anything but that. "That's cool."

She shrugged. "Useful, for sure. What's your name?"

"Gianna Yumia."

"That's a nice name," she offered.

I nodded again. Visitors didn't seem to be paying much attention as they bustled by with the maps to the parks held out in front of them. I pretended to be interested in the plait holding Sara's name as a group of tourists came by, staring at Sara curiously. The girl turned away from them and stalked away to the back of the exhibit, making me bite back a smile. When her intentions were clear to the tourists that she wouldn't be turning back, they began walking again, clearly disappointed.

"I'm sorry about this," I said when she turned back, eyes following the tourists.

"Well, Seth and I crashed our spaceship here on earth before in the past, so I'd say we're just paying another visit...except behind glass." Sara cocked her head almost humorously, but like every other Disney character in the park, her eyes already held the hints of sadness and fear that I'd gotten used to seeing.

I began to speak but my walkie-talkie released loud static before I heard Zeke speaking urgently. I quickly ducked behind the exhibit and some bushes, turning the volume on it down. Zeke was saying, "I've found the computer, but accessing the remotes to Seth's restraints is proving difficult."