“Ellis?” Tree Rex’s voice was staticky, confused. “Where… where have you been?”
But his phone screen flickered. A folder appeared: ELLIS.bin .
“Ready to play, Portal Master?”
It had been eight years since he’d last placed a Skylander on the Portal of Power. The plastic figures sat in a shoebox now—paint chipped, limbs wiggly from years of childhood battles. But the magic wasn’t in the plastic. It was in the data .