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away and was walking around her desk once more. “No more traveling. No more adventures. No more Africa.”
    â€œI promise.”
    Billy's mother settled gracefully into her oversized desk chair and lifted a pen as she opened a book like the one the Russian carried.
    â€œGo and get cleaned up. I'll expect you at dinner.”
    Billy couldn't stop looking at her, and when his mother realized she was being stared at, she cut her eyes up to meet his.
    â€œUh, Mom…where's Pop?”
    She held his gaze for a moment longer, then went back to her book. “Your father is off on an important errand. He'll be back soon.”
    Billy smiled at his mother, even though she wasn't paying any attention to him anymore. He turned to go about the task of pulling open the big office door and trying to find his room in this place. Hopefully there was a map like in the mall.
    â€œBilly.”
    â€œYes, Mom?”
    â€œIf there is a locked door, it's locked because the secret contained within isn't something you should concern yourself with. Do you understand this time?”
    Billy pulled open the door and looked back out at the massive room he'd traveled through to finally meet the most wonderful mother in the galaxy.
    â€œMom, I promise.”
    IV.
    Billy went almost an hour without breaking any promises to his mother. After leaving her office he went wandering on his own, running into a maid or butler and getting updated directions which way he should be headed to find his room. By the time he'd made it across the house, Billy had seen the last suit of armor he would ever want to see — which was a disappointment, because the first couple he'd seen were pretty damn cool. They just kind of stood around though, and didn't do anything. Everything in this place just seemed to be standing around, doing nothing and serving little to no purpose. By the time Billy reached his bedroom, he felt exhausted.
    His new room was yet another letdown. It had a big fancy bed that was so high off the ground, there was a little set of steps to climb to get onto it. Billy laid his head down on the feather pillows and let his eyes scan the joint. He didn't see any of his stuff from his old room there, and the place felt like a doctor's office. There was all this science stuff, like a globe and a telescope pointed out a window, and what looked like a functioning toilet through a door across the room.
    â€œNo wonder I get in so much trouble with my mom around,” Billy commented to his board, which was resting on the pillow to his left. “Perfect worlds are kinda boring.”
    Billy knew he wasn't gonna get any sleep, and neither was his skateboard for that matter, so they got up. He started tossing drawers and peering into closets. “Are all these shoes mine?”
    He didn't find a slingshot or a plastic army tank or anything to create explosives with in the whole place. Disgusted, Billy found himself looking through the telescope out the big picture window of his room. “Okay, stars… stars… boring stars… Moon, or Jupiter, or whatever the hell that is.”
    It took him a few minutes to figure out the lever and gears. He finally did something which made the telescope tilt down, and then the boy found himself focusing in on the town below Purgatory Hill. “Cool, the rib shack.” The telescope had a big lens on the end of it and the Moon was bright, so he found that focusing on things waspretty easy once you got the hang of it. “Hey, that's that lady that Pop calls Mrs. Hooker.”
    Billy started swinging the telescope over the grounds of his new home. He was gonna find that trampoline if it took all night. He would have looked all night too, had he not suddenly found himself focusing on her .
    She had short red hair that she wore in a fairy-of-the-forest pixie cut. Covered in a doctor's coat of white, just like the dude's that came to Billy's school once a year to test them for lice