What would have taken at least half a day to walk only took about twenty minutes to fly as Jamie and Clarence reached the tall blue cloud. It was even bigger than Jamie thought. He slowed down and lowered Clarence and himself to the firm cloud below them.
‘My dear boy, we are here!’ said Clarence with a hint of surprise and relief in his voice. All Jamie could do was stand and gaze in wonder at what he saw before him.
‘Wow! I’ve never seen anything so beautiful!’ whispered Jamie who stood at the foot of the ginormous cloud. It was a shiny glittery blue colour. It was shaped like a Christmas tree, even taller than the one Jamie once saw in Trafalgar Square on one of his school trips to London. As he took a step forward to get a closer look he noticed, what appeared to be, small glowing creatures moving around on each perch of the cloud. ‘There’s something moving on here!’ Jamie said to Clarence.
‘Ah, I see you have found the sparkle worms!’
‘Sparkle worms?’
‘Yes, they are the guardians of the departure door. You will find them at every part of the cloudscape that leads back into the world below.’
‘They may be small, but they are always many in number. When put together, they can create quite an army to protect the entry to the cloudscape.’
‘But surely anyone can get in here. I got in just by flying through the middle of the clouds!’
‘But did you?’ replied Clarence.
‘Yes… at least I think I did?’ said Jamie.
‘My boy, no one gets in here unless they are expected. You think you flew in of your own accord? In fact you flew straight through an entry door, which had been opened ready for your arrival by the sparkle worms.’
‘But I don’t remember seeing them?’ said Jamie.
‘Of course you don’t. The sparkle worms that guard the entry doors are never seen. They live in the cloudscape, not on it! You would have whizzed straight past them. The only time you will see a large group of them is when you arrive at a departure door like this one here.’
‘Oh,’ said Jamie who looked back at the sparkle worms. He spent a few moments trying to understand everything Clarence had just told him. Eventually he responded, ‘So the job of these sparkle worms here is to guard the departure door?’
‘Yes, that’s right!’
‘But where is the departure door?’
‘Where is it? You’re standing on it my boy!’
Jamie looked down. He realised he was standing on a large rectangular door. But this door was not made of wood or metal or anything else you would expect a door to be made from. It was made of cloud. But what marked it out from the rest of the clouds around him was the fact that this cloud door was transparent – Jamie could see right through it!
‘Ahhh!’ screamed Jamie as he jumped backwards so as to remove himself from the door. ‘It’s so far down!’
‘Why are you so afraid my boy?’
‘I’m sorry, it’s just that I thought I might fall through it!’
‘But aren’t you forgetting something? You can fly!’
‘Of course I can,’ said Jamie as he regained his sense of composure and calm. ‘I suppose I’m still getting used to the idea of it, that’s all!’
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