Duane, Diane - Young Wizards 04 - A Wizard Abroad by Duane Diane

Author:Duane, Diane
Language: eng
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It was the wrong drink. In the middle of the second swallow she spluttered in shock at the alcoholic black-bread taste of it, and from beside her Aunt Annie said, "You're going to get us thrown out of here, you know that? Here, have a tissue."

Nita gasped and choked and took the tissue gratefully, and began mopping Guinness off herself and the table. Ronan was leaning against the wall and laughing, soundlessly, but so hard that he was turning twice as red as he had been.

Furious, Nita felt around in her head for the small simple spell that would dump his own drink in his lap: then remembered where she was, and in rapid succession first shoved the sodden tissue down the neck of his turtleneck, and while Ronan was fumbling for it, knocked his glass sideways with her elbow. "Oops," she said in utter innocence, as it went all over him.

"COME ON NOW, GENTS, TIME NOW, TIME. HAVE YOU NO HOMES TO GO TO? YOU TOO, LADIES, NO

OFFENSE MEANT," Jack shouted from the front of the pub. The conversations were getting louder, if anything.

Ronan sat and stared at his lap, and just as he lifted his eyes to Nita's, Johnny went by and patted him on the shoulder, and said, "I told you she was going to turn you into a soggy beermat. No-one ever listens to me. “Night, Annie, give me a call in the morning… “ And he was away.

"I guess we'd better go," Aunt Annie said, as the lights began flashing on and off. "Doris is waiting. Ronan, do you need a lift home?"

"No thank you, Mrs Callahan," he said, "I came in with Barry."

"Right, then. Come on, Nita, let's call it a night."

Nita got up, and looked down at Ronan. He was

gazing back at her with an expression she couldn't interpret. Not anger, not amusement - what was it? She refused to waste her time trying to work it out. "Keep your pants dry," she said to him, trying desperately to keep her face straight, and losing it again. Gratefully she followed Mrs Smyth and Aunt Annie out, grinning to herself.

Blow-ins. Huh.

She grinned all the way home… and wasn't quite sure why.

7. Slieve na Chulainn Great

Sugarloaf Mountain

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“What's going on?" Kit said the next afternoon. 'How are things going with the Treasures?"

They were sitting around the kitchen table, looking at the papers. “Well," Nita's aunt said, “Doris and a couple of the other Seniors are going to go in tonight and get the Ardagh Chalice. They'll leave a perfect copy in its place. They think they have a guess at how to make it wake up. Apparently, whatever they did with the Stone worked better than they thought; it seems your friend Tom is quite an asset," she said to Nita. "They were able to wake it up on the first try, using the spell he wrote for them."

Nita nodded. "He says it's because he used to write so many adverts."

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Aunt Annie chuckled.

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