The ishkabiddle sends out some specks of something from her body that supposedly help her to detect nearby predators. Somewhere far off a bird screeched, but that wasn’t what was making the ground tremble so the tops of the grass shivered to and fro. The ishkabiddle gets startled by a loud rumbling and crawls out of her burrow to go check it out. I have no idea what an ishkabiddle is, either, but hopefully we’ll find out more. Isn’t it a bit redundant to say an underground burrow? The word burrow implies that it’s underground, but maybe I’m just being picky. Along the way, Marcus and Kyja will discover the truth about their own heritage, the strength of their friendship, and the depths of their unique powers.īundled safe in her underground burrow with eight fuzzy babies snuggled against her warm body, the ishkabiddle woke to a curious rumbling. Farworld’s only hope is for Marcus and Kyja to find the mythical Elementals- water, land, air, and fire- and convince them to open a drift between the worlds.Īs Kyja and Marcus travel to Water Keep, they must face the worst the evil Dark Circle can throw at them- Summoners, who can command the living and the dead Unmakers, invisible creatures that can destroy both body and soul and dark mages known as Thrathkin S’Bae. But the Dark Circle has learned of Master Therapass’s secret and their evil influence and power are growing. When Marcus magically travels to Farworld, he meets Kyja, a girl without magic in a world where spells, charms, and potions are everywhere, and Master Therapass, a master wizard who has kept a secret hidden for thirteen years, a secret that could change the fate of two worlds.

He even has a name for this place- Farworld. In fact, his favorite dream is of a world far away, a world where magic is as common as air, where animals tell jokes, and where trees beg people to pick their fruit. Other people may see thirteen-year-old Marcus Kanenas as an outcast and a nobody, but he sees himself as a survivor and a dreamer. What am I sporking? Water Keep, the first book in the Farworld series, by J.

Water Keep by J. Scott Savage