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soaking wet just minutes into their journey.
    “Don’t worry,” said Kanda. Juliska wasn’t the only one who didn’t want to get wet. “If you have magical blood in you, the water won’t actually touch you.”
    “Oh, is this another portal?” Juliska asked curiously.
    “Of sorts, yes,” Kanda started to reply.
    Her brother interrupted again. “Magical blood will let you into the oasis. If you did not have magical blood, it’s just a waterfall and goes nowhere.”
    “Brilliant,” muttered Milo.
    Arnon Jacoby took a glance at Kanda. “Anything we need to know before heading in?” There was a protective flare in his tone, but security was his job. Before she could reply, her brother stepped up beside her.
    “There’s nothing dangerous here.”
    Arnon raised an eyebrow at the man.
    Kanda shot her brother a stern gaze.
    “Am I a grown woman able to speak for myself?”
    Nashua frowned, but conceded.
    “It’s perfectly safe,” she answered Arnon. “Even from overprotective brothers,” she jested with a humored sneer.
    Everyone got a good chuckle in, except Nashua.
    Arnon accepted what they said, for now. But he’d still be on his guard. It was his job after all.
    They stepped through the falls, and as promised, the water fell right over them and they stayed dry. What awaited on the other side… if what they’d seen so far was breathtaking, this gave the word instantaneous new meaning.
    “The Oasis of Loramoore.” Milo let them take a moment to soak it all in.
    It was lush and green, warm and moist. Filled with tropical life like they’d never seen before, and not native to the area.
    “My people have hidden this oasis for hundreds of years,” revealed Nashua.
    His sister nudged his arm with a look that ordered him to rephrase his statement.
    He cleared his throat. “Our people. The Tunkapog people.”
    Pompous and prickly, Juliska thought to herself. She wondered how he’d been chosen as the Tunkapog’s next leader.
    Kanda continued. “We considered calling this our home once.”
    “I can see why,” said Cornell with a whistle slipping off his tongue. “The magical energy in this place is buzzing.” He looked like a kid in a toy store, eager to try out everything.
    Eddy had just pulled out a notepad and was writing down a few notes on behalf of his mentor, Balloch.
    An air of excitement enveloped them all.
    “When we heard the Svoda might need to expand a little, this was the first place we thought of,” said Kanda.
    “I had no idea… no idea something like this was just miles away from us.” Balloch shook his head in wonder.
    “The Oasis of Loramoore is approximately the same size as your island,” explained Nashua. “So it has good expansion potential. And it would not be too much an effort to set up a portal that would bring Svoda right into the oasis, rather than landing just outside it.”
    “We felt you should see what surrounded the oasis though,” added Kanda. “One thing you may want to note is that this place is a bit of an oddity, so it attracts non-magical outsiders.”
    “Not that they should ever be a bother,” assumed Eddy. “They don’t know this exists, right?”
    “No. And even if they enter the waterfall, which they do all the time, unless they had magical blood…”
    “No entry…” finished Eddy, writing it down at the same time.
    “We’d have to deal with the potential of magical folk being seen going through the waterfall,” noted Cornell. Eddy jotted that down as well. “Even if there’s a portal set up inside here somewhere, it’s bound to happen that someone will use the waterfall.”
    Arnon agreed and made a mental note of this as well. “We also need to consider the off chance that someone steps through the waterfall, who does have magical blood, and does not know it,” said Arnon. “It’s rare these days, but it can happen.” He took a glance at Juliska and sent her a friendly wink. She smiled back. She’d been the last magical child