A Dash of Magic by Kathryn Littlewood

Author:Kathryn Littlewood
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780062084293
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Published: 2013-02-11T22:00:00+00:00

Ty lunged forward and with his right hand caught the rope while with his left hand he held on to the railing. “I’m losing my grip again!” he said, the rope slipping inch by inch through his wet hands. “Rose, help!”

Rose scrambled onto his back and wrapped her fist around the rope, too. But it was no use: they were too wet, and the rope was too slippery. “I can’t hold it!” she cried.

That’s when Gus sprinted out from his dry hiding place and hurtled across the rainy deck. He vaulted over Ty’s back, landed on Rose’s head, and hooked the rope with one of his claws. “Nothing escapes a cat’s clutches!” he announced.

“Youch!” Rose cried as Gus dug into her scalp with the claws on his hind feet. But his hind claws were no match for the Helium Hot Chocolate, and Gus himself began to float upward into the sky, taking some of Rose’s hair with him.

“Rowr!” he yowled as he slipped up into the air.

But now Rose and Ty had something to hold on to. Rose reached up and grabbed Gus’s tail. “Gotcha!”

Rose, still sitting on Ty’s shoulders, pulled Gus toward her by his tail, hand over hand, until she was holding him around his fat belly. She strained and reached up past his claws to grab the rope that held Sage from floating away into oblivion. Gus leaped back down to the ground and landed with a thud.

“Why, oh why, did I ever leave Mexico?” he wailed.

As Rose held tight to the rope, Ty backed away from the railing and sunk to his knees, then bent over, giving Rose enough room to climb down from his shoulders and plant her feet firmly on the ground. She and Ty pulled furiously at the rope, reeling their little brother in foot by foot.

Rose sobbed with relief when Sage finally emerged from the clouds overhead.

When his feet were just an inch above the deck, Ty tied off the rope so Sage couldn’t drift away again, and Rose ran forward and threw her arms around him.

“I’m sorry I made you do it,” she said. “That was selfish and stupid of me.”

“Eh . . . it wasn’t that bad,” he replied. He smiled, but even Rose could see he was doing it for her benefit. She hugged him harder.

Bobbing just a few inches above the platform, Sage handed the blue mason jar full of water to his brother, then crossed his arms and glared at Gus, who, now soaking wet, was huddled miserably in a corner by the elevator, nursing his sore tail.

“Water, Gus?” Sage squeaked with his helium voice, uncharacteristically serious for a change. “You were going to let me float up to Saturn because of a few drops of water?”

With his gray coat plastered to his body, the fat cat looked a lot less fat. “To me, water feels like sulfuric acid. How would you like it if I dripped acid on you?”

Rose glared at Gus.

The cat huffed. “I’m sorry I jumped.

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