Waking from her nightmare, April Ryan finds out that the real world has its own share of problems. She deals with an obnoxious neighbor, finds a gold ring that has nothing to do with Mount Doom and then talks to a creepy old guy who seems to know way too much about her. And who wants her to meet him in a children’s museum. And that’s before the weird creature jumps out of the jukebox. Good thing she has clean genes for the subway. It’s the loquacious first chapter of The Longest Journey!

Art student April Ryan wakes up to find herself in a postcard perfect wilderness and having to deal with a grumpy tree (that totally isn’t an Ent), a matronly dragon and a roiling chaos cloud. Then things get weird. It’s the first step on The Longest Journey!