Mericolts Secret by Sandra Sherrod

“Where are we?” Mericolt asked Pentil. “Is this Earth?” Thick vegetation surrounded them and everything smelled so very green. Could the Pearls of Wisdom be in such a remote place? He fingered his space-cutting knife, a tool his mother gave him before she disappeared. She told him the knife would be the greatest secret he’d ever have---to be used only in an emergency. Then she demonstrated how to cut a doorway. Not an ordinary doorway, but a doorway that connected to a tunnel in space---a tunnel with an opening to another constellation or another world. Or to where the Pearls of Wisdom were hiding. Would he need to use his knife? Wasn’t this an emergency?