When Perry Dobbs reunites with his former friend Arvin " Chipmunk " Pewter, a powerful object rips the duo away from their home and into a whirlwind adventure through fantasy worlds.
In their quest for home, Perry and Arvin will travel from the bottom of the ocean to a city in the clouds, across sticky mud flats, through dangerous kingdoms, over sinking islands, and into a frozen wasteland. They ' ll meet colossal knights, people as black as tar and as white as snow, warring soldiers, kind and treacherous strangers, and many more unique characters.
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Gewgaws is a fast-paced fantasy adventure about finding your inner strength and relying on a friend in your darkest hour.
Within twenty seconds, the dome was half gone. Arvin sped away so quickly, he could ' ve left his skin behind. He got almost a hundred feet before tripping over his shredded sandals and falling into the dirt. The metal and glass hexagons melted as white-hot flames grew higher and hotter forcing us to back away to the cooled lava field.
POP-POP
I heard the sound of the glass beakers exploding one by one.
CRACKLE HISS POP-POP HISS
All the equipment and research inside either burned, boiled, or melted. The red pipes disintegrated as the fire died down, leaving a pile of red dust with only the black charred outline of a hexagon on the ground.
From DING to dust, everything was gone in less than a minute. The five of us tiptoed towards the pile of dust that had been an expensive dome seconds before. Arvin watched from a safe distance. Arvin ' s little red rock rested in the center of the dust, its tiny silver flecks sparkling in the light.
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