When Perry Dobbs reunites with his former friend Arvin " Chipmunk " Pewter , a powerful object rips the duo away from their home and into a whirlwind adventure through fantasy worlds .
In their quest for home , Perry and Arvin will travel from the bottom of the ocean to a city in the clouds , across sticky mud flats , through dangerous kingdoms , over sinking islands , and into a frozen wasteland . They ' ll meet colossal knights , people as black as tar and as white as snow , warring soldiers , kind and treacherous strangers , and many more unique characters .
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Gewgaws is a fast-paced fantasy adventure about finding your inner strength and relying on a friend in your darkest hour .
Within twenty seconds , the dome was half gone . Arvin sped away so quickly , he could ' ve left his skin behind . He got almost a hundred feet before tripping over his shredded sandals and falling into the dirt . The metal and glass hexagons melted as white-hot flames grew higher and hotter forcing us to back away to the cooled lava field .
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I heard the sound of the glass beakers exploding one by one .
CRACKLE HISS POP-POP HISS
All the equipment and research inside either burned , boiled , or melted . The red pipes disintegrated as the fire died down , leaving a pile of red dust with only the black charred outline of a hexagon on the ground .
From DING to dust , everything was gone in less than a minute . The five of us tiptoed towards the pile of dust that had been an expensive dome seconds before . Arvin watched from a safe distance . Arvin ' s little red rock rested in the center of the dust , its tiny silver flecks sparkling in the light .
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