{"product_id":"the-immortal-stalk-the-boy-in-the-balloon-chronicles-through-time-book-2-9798254191582","title":"The Immortal Stalk: (The Boy in the Balloon: Chronicles Through Time, Book 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): CL Ire\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Mysteries \u0026amp; Detective Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter drifting away from the peninsula, the boy and the Builder descend into a hidden valley where everything bends toward one impossible thing: a towering stalk worshiped as a miracle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePilgrims travel for days to see it. Priests guard it. An entire village has built its life around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe boy sees something else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWater. Pressure. Structure. Method.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stalk was not born holy. It was engineered long ago by another child who noticed the world more clearly than anyone around him, then vanished into story when no one bothered to keep the record. Now the temple is standing on a truth its custodians do not understand, and the boy must decide what matters more: protecting the myth, or preserving the method.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen he meets Vale, a girl who has been keeping her own secret observations in stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith Vale aboard, the balloon becomes more than escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt becomes a witness apparatus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd when the hum returns over the coast, they realize the stalk was never the end of the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was only proof that they are not the first children to find the machinery under the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47775380340887,"sku":"9798254191582","price":1300.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798254191582.webp?v=1777990002","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-immortal-stalk-the-boy-in-the-balloon-chronicles-through-time-book-2-9798254191582","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}