Chapter 9

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The Aerodon landed in the airport. Concord exited wearily, stumbling forward. It had been a tiring flight, especially because he had never flown before.

He bought a map of Moraindia, rented a bicycle, and rode it to the Denecay Dunes. After all, the dunes were hard to miss on the map, and he was constantly pulled towards them. So it wasn't hard to find them.

Concord leaned his bike against a pole. He wasn't sure exactly what he should have done with the bike, but he figured that somebody would take it and put it where it needed to go. Then he checked his materials and set out into the dunes. He didn't know exactly where he was going, but he figured that he should just follow the magical pull. His powers had never let him down before, after all.

Concord had no time to lose. His adventurous spirit could not be contained any longer.

He sped along the sand at a quick pace. He had recently figured out how to control the sand in a safe enough way to move him around fast. It had taken a few tries, and many falls and mistakes, but eventually he had gotten it.

I do wish that it didn't have to be sand, though. It's really not my strength.

His small, moving sand dune collapsed and Concord fell face down into the sand. "What happened?" he asked nobody in particular. I must have just lost control of the sand. "Oh."

Concord created the mound of sand again and sped off once more.

The pull stopped. What? I'm not being pulled towards somewhere anymore.

Concord looked around. There was a huge dune in front of him, but that was it. Hmm. I wonder if that dune has anything to do with it.

Concord tried to climb the dune, scrambling upwards, but slid back down. After a moment, he realized that he didn't need to climb the dune. Oh. Heh.

Concord shifted the sand to reach the top of the dune.

"AAH!" Concord cried out, swinging his arms in circles as he tried to maintain his balance. He had almost knocked himself over the edge.

But what is this the edge of?

Concord was standing at the top of the dune, but there was a steep drop in front of him, leading down to what seemed to be a bottomless pit. Concord tried to lift a piece of earth from the bottom of the pit. It didn't work. He tried again. It still didn't work. Concord was confused.

That always works. Maybe it's too far away?

Concord took a piece of solid earth out of the walls that were closer to him in the strange pit, and slid down the dune onto it.

Concord lowered the slab of earth at a medium pace. He didn't want to go too slowly, because it might take too long. And he didn't want to go at a fast pace because there would be a possibility of him hitting the bottom of the pit before he even knew it was there.

I certainly don't want that to happen.

I certainly don't want that to happen

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