In that moment Eddie saw everything in Cullum’s car had come untethered and was floating-pipe ashes, two pens and a paperclip from the dashboard, Eddie’s dinh, and, he realized, his dinh’s ka-mai, good old Eddie Dean. No wonder he had lost his stomach! (He wasn’t aware that the car itself, which had drifted to a stop at the side of the road, was also floating, tilting lazily back and forth five or six inches above the ground like a small boat on an invisible sea.)
Then the tree-lined country road was gone. Bridgton was gone. The world was gone. There was the sound of todash chimes, repulsive and nauseating, making him want to grit his teeth in protest… except his teeth were gone, too.
THREE
Like Eddie, Roland had a clear sense of being first lifted and then hung, like something diat had lost its ties to Earth’s gravity.
He heard the chimes and felt himself elevated through the wall of existence, but he understood this wasn’t real todash-at least not of the sort they’d experienced before. This was very likely what Vannay called aven kal, words which meant lifted on the wind or carried on the wave. Only the kal form, instead of the more usual kas, indicated a natural force of disastrous proportions: not a wind but a hurricane; not a wave but a tsunami.
The very Beam means to speak to you, Gabby, Vannay said in his Gabby, the old sarcastic nickname Vannay had adopted ause Steven Deschain’s boy was so close-mouthed. His limpng brilliant tutor had stopped using it (probably at Cort’s existence) the year Roland had turned eleven. You would do well to listen if it does.