Dallastown Area High School - Spectator Yearbook (Dallastown, PA)

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Brinsley faced a conjugated rammarg cre- ture as well as the compound mcch mon- ster. Yet he conquered these and others, and stopped referring to them as monsters, but rather as friends, or at least things he could tolerate. Facing these beings was an everyday occurrence, but Brinsley’s trip was especially marked by some over- whelming experiences. He had been along the path for a while now, and was becoming familiar with the daily routine. He was walking along a rather quiet section of the path when he espied a large gathering slightly off the path. He wandered towards it. interested in what might begoing on. The gathering was actually a crowd, rooting for some- thing. They were screaming and yelling wildly. Some members of the crowd were giants, while others were shorter. There were some even shorter than Brinsley. They jumped up and down, patted each other on the back, and shouted loudly, throwing their hands up as they did. Brin- sley squirmed through the crowd, until he got to the edge of it and saw what they were cheering about. It was nothing but a game of some sort. The game was called pcdcglobc. It con- sisted of two teams of uniformed players that fought each other in a most violent fashion for the control of an elliptical ball. Once one team had control of the ball it had the opportunity to score points by for- warding it towards its rival’s goal. It seemed savage and vaguely futile to Brin- sley. but after a while he, too. got caught up in the excitement, with the help of a group of young men and women who car- ried and played certain musical instru- ments with a maximum of volume. After observing the exciting game for a while, Brinsley’s gaze shifted to the boundaries around which the electrified crowd clustered. On both sides of the boundaries were groups of girls, one group wearing the same colors as one team and another group wearing the same colors of the other team. These girls would cheer, dance, and shoot off a large rocket when their team scored. Brinsley looked at each girl, then looked back at the game, but his gaze returned to one of these “rocketeers,” as they were called, in par- ticular. He asked a friend standing near him what her name was. She was called Jubilith Prensley. Brinsley had no idea what had come over him. but he know he had to talk to her immediately. From a- cross the playing field he tried to catch her eye, but the distance made it impossi- ble to know if she was looking at him or not. Summoning up his small reserve of courage (or so he thought), he began to walk over. After several minutes of straining and squirming and dodging to get through the raucous crowd, Brinsley found himself in back of the rocketeers for the High Kingdom squad. Again he tried to make eye contact, but she continued to jump up and down and move about. continued page 24

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He advised him not to be afraid of the many giants who roamed the same path, in that they were on the same journey, though they had begun it earlier. He also told him about the many new creatures he would see. They would look like horri- ble demons initially, but as time went on he would become familiar with them and may even grow to like them. Always, though, he would have friends in the Of- ficcrias dc Guidcncia. who sat in their mystical rooms in that very castle, sur- rounded by various ancient tomes. Brin- sley would also have many experiences that would be totally new to him, yet they would be exciting and romantic. The Sorcerer Senoj ended his speech with a hearty “Good Luck!” and disap- peared from whence he came. After Brin- sley had recovered from his surprise at seeing Senoj appear and vanish like the cvcrblinking light of the firefly, he no- ticed a door at the end of the room oppo- site the passage through which he had en- tered. He opened the door and gazed at a long passageway lighted by flaming tor- ches. Assuming that this had to be the way out of the castle, he walked down it slowly. He reached another door, but this one was large and strong. He opened it quite easily, though, and walked out into the High Kingdom. He gazed in wonder at the mysterious land around him. In front of him was a path paved in gold, and marked with a sign announcing that this was the “Path of Knowledge. Arrows showed him the proper direction to travel. Around the path were great trees with white trunks and bright blue leaves that seemed to reach for the glowing white clouds in the brown sky above. Giants, clothed in an endless myriad of fashions, walked back and forth before him on the path. Most ignored him or glared in cold disdain, but others either gave him a rough push or gently pointed him in the direction indi- cated by the arrows. Taking his fate into his own hands, he started off. Chapter 2 The first days of his journey were long and hard. He kept to the Path of Know- ledge with little difficulty, though many of the giants made staying on the path somewhat risky, sometimes shoving him onto side paths or pushing him backwards. He met others his si C and found that they, too. had gone through the same tun- nel to get to this land. He made friends with some of those his size, and with these friends he shared his meals at the food stops that dotted the path. These food stops were never famous for the quality of their food, but they served their purpose. Along with his friends. Brinsley also faced many of the creatures that Senoj had told him about. There was the many-digited. multi-variablcd algae mon- ster. forever mired in a pond of figures and solutions. There was a very social monster that was actually made up of two halves, one called the sike and the other the soash.

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