Oh, fun. It’s a longer way down the Keep because it keeps growing into the future, but it still felt faster than going up.
And now everyone’s like “well, that was a wasted trip…” Was it, though?
“The Winter King probably woulda been too lazy to come up here…” “He probably wouldn’t have gotten in anyway without royal blood.” Oh, Charles, if you only knew…
“He does have the Geographica though…”
“Yeah, even with the book and the Ring of Power, he couldn’t get the summoning to work because he’s not the real heir to the throne.”
And of course they get down to the bottom of the Keep and find the Black Dragon pulled up.
So now they’re trying to escape up the tower. And the Winter King’s just chilling at the bottom, basically taunting them.
And now it’s on fire. Lovely.
“Why are we going back up? That doesn’t make sense!” “Because it doesn’t make sense! Duh!”
Of course the Shadow-Born are following them.
“Let’s try a door!” “How do you know it’s a good door?” “We just gotta believe it is.”
So… the las door before the Cartographer’s door now opens to right when they first showed up at the Keep. Because that’s apparently the closest Big Event the doors could pick to “the most recent past.” Well, that’s lucky, even with the possibility of weird time loops and paradoxes and stuff…
And now they’re going to the end of the world.
“Let’s try not to fall off!” “Good plan.” “Wait, hold up, I was kidding…”
Oh, fun. Apparently if you fall over the end of the world, you’ll be falling forever… which reminds me of the bit in Spy Kids 2 when Carmen and Juni fell into the volcano and thought they were falling for hours… (I couldn’t find any memes for it with good captions, and trying it myself was a bit tricky to get the timing right…)
But anyway, with the whole time loop thing, now they’ve got a few advantages over the Winter King. Like the Cartographer’s advice. And a head start, time wise.
So, apparently one of Ordo Maas’ bird kids followed them to keep an eye on when Big Things would happen.
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