Bewitched in Oz by Laura J. Burns

Author:Laura J. Burns
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Magic, Fantasy, Laura J. Burns, 978-1-62370-129-1, Oz, 978-14342-9207-0
Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
Published: 2014-08-01T07:00:00+00:00

.12.

Zerie was halfway through the jungle when she realized her friends weren’t with her. She skidded to a stop and shook her head. She must’ve used her magic and run too fast, leaving them behind. She hadn’t even been aware that she was doing it, but the fear of the Kalidahs had driven her.

She closed her eyes and pictured the edge of the trench where she’d left Brink and Vashti, and she imagined the path back there.

When she opened her eyes, her friends were staring at her.

“Did you just go somewhere?” Brink asked.

“Yes, I ran, and I guess it was fast because you two couldn’t catch up,” she replied.

“Catch up? You were only gone for a minute,” Vashti said. “We didn’t even start.”

“Well, start,” Zerie said. “Those Kalidahs are coming. We have to run!”

“Run where?” Vashti asked frantically. “The cat said it’s a desert after the next trench. There’s nowhere to hide! They’ll catch us for sure.”

“Okay. Okay, okay, okay,” Zerie murmured, trying to think. “So we have to hide. They never found us in the ditch with Ednah and Edmond. Maybe they couldn’t get through the tickle bushes.”

“Tickle bushes! I think I can do that illusion,” Brink said. “I’ll make it look like the bushes are growing over the top of the trench. Both the Kalidahs are down inside it now.” He stared at the trench, concentrating.

“I can help.” Zerie took his hand, closed her eyes, and pictured the bushes on the far side of the hole. They could grow very thick, their branches long and intertwining. She imagined the bushes growing, maturing, tangling together, extending out over the chasm until they reached the tops of the trees that grew inside the trench.

“You’re doing it!” Vashti whispered.

Zerie opened her eyes. The trench had a cover now, red tickle bushes lying like a carpet over the top. “How much of that is illusion and how much is real?” she asked.

“It doesn’t matter. You made them grow and then I used the new, bigger bushes as the basis for my illusion,” Brink said. “I didn’t know I could do that.”

“I still hear the Kalidahs,” Vashti said. “If they figure it out, they’ll be up here in no time. Where should we go?”

“To the next trench,” the Glass Cat said. “Where else?” She took off running into the jungle. The three friends followed.

Zerie felt as if she was jogging through molasses. She’d run farther than this before in no time at all. Her whole body yearned to move faster, as fast as her magical talent could take her. She’d made Brink and Vashti move as fast as she did once, when the Foot Hills were about to stomp them. But making the tickle bushes grow had used a lot of magic, and she felt tired. She wasn’t sure how much strength she had left. So for now she just ran along slowly, following the cat.

“Where’s the trench?” Brink asked breathlessly when they’d been running for ten minutes. “The cat said it was a mile in, so maybe we should slow down.

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