Meet the Characters
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Hi. I’m Windslow. I’m twelve, the same age as Hillary but we’re not twins or anything. She’s my step-sis. Dad married Hillary’s mom about two years ago. Hillary’s cool, even though she is a girl. Sometimes she gets bossy because she’s a couple months older than me. Gabendoor is really cool! I’m the one that figured everything out –I mean all about dream-slipping and stuff. At first I hated being in this wheelchair, but now it’s not so bad. I can almost do more stuff, you know, like different stuff, than I could before. I’m in this dumb chair because I fell off the roof of our house and hurt my back. But it’s okay. I hate people feeling sorry for me. Our adventure in Gabendoor was awesome! You’ve got to read about it.
My name is Hillary Windgate-Summerfield. I was Hillary Windgate before mom married Windslow’s dad. It’s so nice to meet you. I’m nearly thirteen and I’m three months older than my kid stepbrother. He can be a jerk sometimes when he tries to boss me around and I hate it when he acts goofy around my friends. We make a pretty good team in Gabendoor. I had to figure most things out. I really love science and especially math. Science and math helped me a lot in Gabendoor. I made some really good friends there too. Molly Folly Sallyforth and I are almost like sisters. I miss her.
As if it matters to you, my name is Fistlock. Yes, just Fistlock –no middle name, or last, or first name. I rule Gabendoor and can be anything, anyone, or call myself whatever I want. I’m the greatest wizard there has ever been. I hate those meddlesome children from earth. Even now, I’m working on ways to eliminate them permanently.
Hey! I Molly Folly Sallyforth. Who you? I glad a-meet you. Gabendoor some fun place a-be. I like all-a people there, specially my boyfriend, Windso and best girlfriend, Hillre. I got sisters and we twins. My sister, Tillie and I twins. My sister, Nelly, and I twins. They twins too! We all-a three twins. Our Grampy Sallyforth write the Book of Second Chances. We know all about it.
Humph… Ah… Well I guess I should just be direct. My name is Haggerwolf. I’m a little over one hundred years old. I was a great wizard in my time. I guess I still am, but I retired a long time ago when all the younger wizards started running things. Well, they’re all gone now and I’m still here. Fistlock did away with them. So I guess I’m only semi-retired now. I might be a little out of practice, but I can still match magic with anyone.
Ha! Semi-retired? We had to come out of retirement. Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. Fernbark here. Good to meet you. Haggerwolf is our leader, I guess. He only is leader because someone has to be and I don’t want the job. Haggerwolf has a way with animals. I’m pretty good with plants. You’ll meet Larkstone next. He’s good with things associated water or the ocean. We were something in our day. We made a good team of wizards. I guess we still do make a good team. It doesn’t matter much, other than Fistlock, we’re the only wizards left in Gabendoor.
I’m Larkstone. Yep, I’m one of the three old fogies that still call ourselves wizards. Actually we’ll always be wizards. The hard part is to keep from being three washed up old useless wizards. We almost became that. I feel useful again thanks to Hillary and Windslow. I think my other two wizard friends would agree with me if they’d stop trying to act tough and grumpy all the time. Maybe they need more rest. With that cursed book on the loose, nobody will get any sleep. The book is too dangerous.
Bitterbrun at your service. So good to make your acquaintance. Officially I’m Fistlock’s chamberlain. He’s not very nice to me. Some day I’ll show him –I’ll show everyone. I’m not a fool. I have more brains in the wart on my nose than anyone else has in their whole head or arms or… or… Anyway, all the others had better watch out. You better watch out too unless you want to be my friend. Do you? I’d like you to be my friend. I don’t have very many. We could do some things together and have fun. You could get a dream-slip band and come to Gabendoor. We could do lots of things together –really!
Crystal Mountain is the name of Fistlock's castle. As its name suggests, his castle is made of natural crystal that rises from the side of a small mountain in Gabendoor. Generations ago, wizards mined out the inside of the crystal formation to create a great university. When Fistlock got rid of all the young wizards, he took over the university and made it his stronghold. Click on the picture for a larger view.
Eldervale is a city Fistlock created. He moved all the grandfathers and grandmothers there, taking them away from their families. He made all the houses the same; whitewashed walls and thatched roofs. After the residents defeated Fistlock's army, they set to work remodeling their homes. New roofs and paint were the first changes. This home belongs to Granny Gilderbrun. Click on the picture for a larger view.
