Read Eli Arnold and the Keys to Forever Book One: It's About Time Page 8

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  May 28, 2012, 6:28 p.m.

  Jensen exhaled and grabbed a nearby wall to steady himself. Opening a vortex on a moving spaceship had been extremely difficult. Traveling through a vortex that had opened on a moving spaceship hadn’t been any easier. He felt like part of his body still hadn’t come through the wall — a very disconcerting sensation.

  Footsteps echoed off the metal floors as people rushed past in the hallway outside. Jensen knew that the Arnold brothers had just run by the storage room he occupied. He was tempted to risk a peek. He wanted to see the boy. He wanted to see who he had pinned all the future’s hopes on. Part of him was scared he’d be disappointed. What if the boy didn’t live up to the high expectations he had created in his mind? At this point, he supposed it didn’t matter. The boy was the only hope for any future. Jensen knew he was committed to this course of action.

  Two disruptor blasts echoed down the hallway. The Arnold boys had entered the control room. Sirens began to wail. Red warning lights flashed high along the walls.

  Jensen removed a scrap of paper from his pocket and looked at the words written across the page. Moving back to the wall, he activated the ship’s intercom system. He leaned close to the microphone and pressed the talk button.

  “Please fasten your seatbelts,” he said in as official a voice as he could manage. He had practiced the words on the paper many times. He released the button. “Good luck, Eli Arnold. We are all depending on you.”

  Jensen stepped back into the portal. The burden is on you now, boy, he thought as the portal closed around him. You are our only hope.