Chapter 5By the time the day had deepened into twilight, Savanne had told Val everything.
Although Savanne described his world as a paradise, Val could see right away that his world was no paradise. The kind of paradise he visualized was a happy land full of gumdrops and lollipops, but in Casmir there were witches, evil magicians, and villains with power. If it was a fantasy land, it was an adult fantasy land. The evil was darker, the evil beings insane or dangerous. It was a land of giants, trolls, and wicked pleasures of all kinds. Knowing all this, the excitement no longer invited him. Now he found himself fighting against Savanne going back. Even though he’d said he believed it, the more he thought about it, the more incredible it seemed. He kept telling himself that it was part of Sa
