05/28/2019
Cover reveal and a tiny excerpt! Look for Imagineer June 14!
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For the second time that morning, I saw something completely and utterly out of place. Across the street, on the lot that had stood vacant for years, sprawled a complex with thick white walls, a closed platform of dark wood and metal rings, and beyond that—
In a blink, it disappeared.
I inhaled sharply, my attention riveted to the outside. It had been a Japanese castle. For a moment, just a second, I’d seen a four-story Japanese castle, with the curving roof edges and the sliding doors and everything. Not that I’d ever been to Japan, but I’d seen enough depictions of them in manga and anime to know what they looked like. And it had been a perfect representation of the type.
Only it wasn’t there now. And really, it was nonsensical to think a castle would be there. An empty lot on Friday, a fully-constructed Japanese castle on Monday? Not possible.
For a second, I doubted my own eyes. The logical assumption was I was seeing things. That my imagination played a trick on me. I mean, it would be awesome if it was magic but…there was probably some logical reason for it instead. What had that been? A hologram, a flash of daydreaming? Surely not a trick of the light. It had been far too detailed for that. Daydreaming seemed the best possibility because Mr. White could put anyone to sleep with that soothing voice of his, and this wasn’t exactly a riveting subject. And yet….
And yet.
“Reagan?” Mr. White called to me, tone amused. “You still with us?”
“Hey, Mr. White,” I answered, tearing my eyes from the window to look back at him. “What’s the statistical probability my imagination is playing tricks on me?”
“High, I bet, knowing you.”
I grinned back at him, because I’d take that bet.
