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Show Chapter Three "Sandy, wake up!" Sandy awoke rubbing her eyes. The warm morning sunlight glittered on the bubble, and for a few bewildering moments, she thought she was floating on a rainbow. "Sandy, look!" "Oh!" she gasped. "The Dark Mountains!" Indeed, they were very dark and forboding. The jagged cliffs looked treacherous, and although the bubble was many miles above the ground, she couldn't even begin to see the snow-capped mountain peaks. Billowing, heavy black clouds hugged the higher mountain walls. "How are we going to get over those mountains?" asked Sandy, She had barely spoken, when a mighty gust of wind rammed into the bottom of the bubble and sent it speeding upwards so fast that Sandy bounced back and forth like a ping pong ball. Suddenly they shot through the clouds, and the bubble spun dizzily through the air. Sandy desperately tried to catch the spoon, which had been jerked loose from her hand and was bouncing in every direction. Finally it dashed against Sandy's stomach, and she clutched it to her. "Tap me against the bubble three times!" Verus commanded, That was not easy to do, because Sandy was never in one place long enough. Before long she succeeded by tapping the spoon each time she hit a curve of the bubble. Immediately the bubble quieted, and began to descend back toward the clouds. Sandy lay on the bubble floor, gasping for |