Chapter: 1.

Who doesn't dream of diving into another world?

2004 ...
Nanami and Hitari live in Nore, a small harmless town somewhere on the planet Ambar. They grew up in working-class families, are the youngest children in their families and attend high school together.
Nanami and Hitari are both 16 years old and have known each other since the sandpit. At the moment both of them have a break and are sitting on a bench under their favorite oak tree.

Exactly at the same time, in Caras, a city on the planet Amar.
Inu and Gil, both 2031 years old, are busy gutting a dead dragon for their sorceress.

Ambar and Amar are two planets in the same orbit and are otherwise completely the same in size, appearance and climate. But there are also deviations. Amar is the shadow world of Ambar, just like every object and every living being has a shadowy existence. Amar lies exactly on Ambar, only that Amar has one degree of earth axis shift.Every 100 years in a leap year, the axis shift balances out and both worlds are on the same plane. An old book claims there was a parallel to Amar in 1904. And now, in 2004 it should be that time again.

It is just summer in Ambar and Hitari and Nanami hope that the shade of the big oak will bring some cooling.
Nanami: "Hitari ...?"
"Yes?"
"I'm so bored and it's unbearably hot here!"
Hitari: "Guilty, but I can't help it that this break always lasts so long! But I know where it's more pleasant than here!"
Nanami: "You mean the library ?!"
"Exactly! Do we want to go? There are the others too!"
Nanami: "Sure! Everything, but just not the heat out here!"

Meanwhile in Amar
Inu: "Gil, take a deep breath, this air is rare!"
Gil: "Ugh, decaying dragon is really disgusting! Come on, hurry up, the brain has to be fresh and bloody to use it later!"
Inu: "Do we want to take the eyes and liver with us as a precaution?""Yes, yes, do that! You can still feed it to the Ruscs later if we don't need it."
Inu "So, done! We can go! The old woman promised us a cold drink!"
Gil and Inu load the individual parts of the dragon into the horse-drawn carriage and drive home to the old sorceress.

At the same time in Ambar.
Nore's school grounds have their own library building and Nanami is just sprinting in through the library door: "First! ... Oh, it's nice here ..."
Shortly afterwards Hitari arrives: "Phew, oh yes, nice here! Come on, let's look for something to read, otherwise you throw your eyes out ... Muahaha hair!"
Nanami: "The librarian seems to be everywhere and if you don't read anything or sit at the computer you're outside. She's really bored."
Hitari: "I'll go right and you go left. See you soon, at the table."
Nanami: "Yes, yes!"
They part ways in the meter-high bookshelves of the school library.A thick forest. You seldom hear the calls of birds and when they do, then only the cold nagging of the ravens. A dull grumble thunders from the north. It is a horse-drawn carriage at a rapid pace.
Gil: "Her house is up there. We can finally dump the stinking stuff!"
Inu: "Fortunately, I think from minute to minute the smell eats its way into my nose so that I can never smell anything other than this again."
You can clearly see an old house among the trees.
Gil: "Hiril! Hiril! We're back!"
The door of the house, which is covered with fir branches, opens slowly with a creak and an old woman with white hair steps in front of the doorstep: "There you are at last! And where is your forehead?"
Gil pulls hard on the reins and the horses' hooves dig into the damp moss soil.
Gil: "The brain?"
Hiril: "No the forehead!"
Inu: "Oops! ... Huh, huh, huh ... Should we bring a forehead?"
Hiril: "Yes, I need the bones of my forehead to make a mortar bowl out of it!"Inu: "Hiril, the forehead bone broke when the dragon fell to the ground when it was hit by our arrows. We could only save the brain."
Hiril: "So you only have the brain?"
Gil: "And the eyes!"
Inu: "And the liver!"
Hiril: "Hm, the brain compensates for the forehead today, but tomorrow I need the forehead! Because there are apprentices from the village!"
Gil: "Yes! Tomorrow morning they will have a mortar!"
Hiril: "I hope so too!"
To make up for the forgotten browbones, the two of them are extra nice to the sorceress and unload the remains of the dragon.

Nanami and Hitari found a few books in Ambar.
Nanami: "Look, I found a book with knights!"
Hitari: "I have two books. One about a pig that conquers the big wide world and apparently a fantasy book."
Nanami and Hitari are just looking into the book when a huge shadow piles up behind them: "Well, girl?Found something?!"
Hitari: "The Aug ... The look of this book is weird!"
Librarian: "The book looks like any other. But you don't know anything like that, you with your magazines and comics."
Nanami: "Well, listen! I know what books are! I'm almost forced to take a look at one in class every day!"
The librarian goes back to her counter, cocky.
Hitari: "Come on, let's have a look at the books."

Inu and Gil are arranging and cleaning the old sorceress's bookshelves when suddenly Gil throws her feather duster into the corner and almost knocks over a vase.
Inu: "Hey! Pay attention!"
Gil: "I hate that!"
Inu: "What?"
"Well, that with the dragon! We had to kill the poor animal because of a mortar bowl! ... We are high-ranking elves! Our fathers have something to say in Caras and we ?! We are here on the orders of our fathers and have to help the old sorceress ... Everyone appreciates the old woman and her healing skills, but we elves can easily help ourselves!No, we both have to toil here to prove our loyalty to the people. And as well as that, Amar is way too stressful! Orcs and trolls on the one hand, warlike people and their ailments on the other, and we elves in the middle! Some people chase after us because we have eternal life. They think they can become immortal if they come in contact with our blood. Such idiots! They don't know this emotional pain when friends come and go and you can watch them drop dead one after the other, like flies gnawing at poisonous flesh. YOU can only count the months, years, centuries until you can finally hope to die after all. . No, people don't know this pain. We elves have seen enough of this life. We have known each other for 2031 years and have only ever been on the run from ourselves. I don't want to live in this contaminated country anymore! I want to go to a world where races respect each other!Where we are not on the run, where we can finally live in peace without trolls and other monsters! "
Inu: "Stop spinning, Gil! That's the way the world is! And you can't change anything about it. Even escaping into a fantasy world doesn't help. You can't leave your eyes on what exists and pretend that nothing exists! "
Gil: "Give it to Inu! You want to get out of here too!"
Inu: "Stop it !!!"
Inu angrily throws a thick book on the floor. When it comes up, dust stirs up. Inu raises her finger threateningly: "Pay attention to what you say, Hên! We Elves don't want to see such fantasies! Are you going crazy now because you can't handle your life?"
Gil: "Inu! No, I'm not freaking out ... I'm just sick of it!"

At the same time that Gil and Inu are having their argument in Ambar.
Nanami's head slides a little deeper in her hand until it almost hits the table. Nanami startled quickly and almost nodded away again.Nanami: "Phew, the book of knights is boring ..."
Hitari: "And the book with the pig has already been filmed. All that remains is ..."
Nanami: "... the fantasy book."
Nanami tries to grab the book in front of Hitari, but before she can even reach for it, Hitari has it in her hand.
Hitari: "Hmm, there is no summary at the back and no title on the front."
Nanami: "Have a look at the book, maybe there is something there."
After a short leafing through the disillusionment.
Hitari: "There is something in it and when it was written."
Nanami: "Read ahead!"
Hitari: "Dive in, into another World ... That's the name of the book. The name should have been on the front."
Nanami: "Aha ... Come on, go on!"
Hitari: "... But it doesn't say who the book is by, just the date ... 1904."
Nanami: "Hey, the book is 100 years old. Come on, let's read it through!"
Hitari: "That's an introduction! Who doesn't dream of diving into another world?"Nanami: "Psst! I need full concentration! I read ... Oh man! I don't want to read !!! You let it through!"
Hitari read the book through, a little puzzled about Nanami. After a good ten minutes she looks up again: "Well, the book was probably written by a woman. I think the form of expression is quite youthfully feminine. But what is interesting about this book is that it is a diary ..."
Nanami: "Aha!"
Hitari: "Yes, but kind of crazy! She talks about another world, where graceful creatures run around with pointed ears and trolls and other mythical creatures."
Nanami: "But something like that happens in every good fantasy ham!"
Hitari: "Well, not that. She claims that she was once in this world! I think that's violent!"
Nanami: "Well, a strong imagination."
Hitari shakes her head: "No, this woman says again and again that these were no pipe dreams! She has even made friends with people from this world and what is really crazy, she says, to balance the balance between the two worlds, ours and the other world, a being came to us from there!That was here as long as she was there! "
Nanami: "That would be something! Imagine yourself in another world as she describes it!"
Hitari: "Yes! As she describes it in the introduction: Who doesn't dream of diving into another world? That would be awesome!"
Nanami jumps up with verve: "To escape this dreary, boring world and to dive into an unknown, exciting world, where there are beings we can only dream of! That would be it !!!"
Hitari lets herself be carried away by Nanami's élan,