Rats in the Cellar III
Robby Charters
- The
- final
- part
- of
- the
- Rats
- In
- The
- Cellar
- trillogy:
- In
- the
- first
- part,
- we
- met
- nine-year-old
- Oscar
- Wild
- Daugherty,
- who
- stumbled
- into
- a
- network
- of
- multiple
- universes,
- accessible
- via
- mysterious
- stairs
- at
- the
- top
- of
- his
- house
- and
- down
- in
- the
- cellar.
- He
- met
- various
- other
- instances
- of
- himself,
- and
- a
- cat,
- who
- is
- more
- than
- just
- a
- cat.In
- the
- sequel,
- the
- cat
- takes
- special
- interest
- in
- Louis
- the
- "bad
- boy"
- of
- the
- lot.
- After
- making
- sure
- he
- does
- good
- by
- people
- he's
- hurt,
- he
- helps
- him
- find
- Blake
- yet
- another
- instance
- of
- Oscar,
- who's
- been
- living
- on
- the
- street.
- Together,
- they
- rescue
- Jacob
- Ogbu,
- the
- man
- who
- owns
- their
- house
- in
- his
- universe,
- but
- has
- become
- lost
- in
- the
- multiverse.
- They
- have
- more
- adventures
- together,
- and
- the
- Ogbu
- family
- accept
- Louis
- and
- Blake
- into
- their
- family.
- In
- the
- course
- of
- their
- adventures,
- Blake
- finds
- an
- old
- diary...In
- this
- sequel,
- the
- final
- part
- of
- the
- trilogy,
- Jacob
- Ogbu
- reads
- the
- diary,
- which
- tells
- the
- story
- of
- how
- the
- time
- travel
- experiment
- of
- a
- 21st
- century
- scientist
- backfired,
- and
- how
- he
- got
- stuck
- in
- the
- 18
- century.
- Without
- intending
- to,
- he
- imparted
- the
- secrets
- of
- time
- travel
- to
- the
- wrong
- people,
- who
- had
- financial
- interests
- in
- the
- slave
- trade.
- With
- their
- knowledge
- of
- time
- travel
- they
- pre-empted
- the
- abolition
- movement
- as
- well
- as
- that
- to
- end
- child
- labour,
- thus
- dooming
- that
- universe
- into
- the
- darkest
- dystopia
- of
- all.
- However
- there
- is hope...
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