Emily and the Spellstone by Michael Rubens

Author:Michael Rubens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Chapter

Ten

“I don’t think I have any special powers or anything like that,” said Angela. “I just like to read.”

She and Emily and Gorgo were seated on the floor in Emily’s room, eating from a bowl of tortilla chips and sipping on juice boxes (Hilary, watching Emily go upstairs with Angela, had said, “Why do you need three juice boxes?” “Just because,” said Emily). After a single whispered “wow” and a headshake after Gorgo had emerged in the bedroom, Angela seemed to have adjusted to his threatening appearance. Something about Angela, thought Emily, made her think of the term unflappable.

Angela took a sip of her juice now and said, “I spend a lot of time in the library. After a while I started noticing this dark wooden shelf that I’d never seen before. So I started reading those books too, all these weird books about magic and enchantments. I thought it was some sort of joke, until today.”

“And you read that whole gigantic user’s manual?” asked Emily.

“No, it didn’t transform like that for me. It stayed small, just a few pages long. Like one of those quick guides that tell you about the important parts. I read that.”

“So you know what all these things are?” said Emily, holding up the Stone to show Angela the apths.

“Wait—​to me it just looks like a stone,” said Angela. “I can’t see what you see. But is there a moon in the upper right-hand corner?”

“Yes. But it’s just a sliver now. And everything seems dimmer or something.”

“Well, have you been charging the Stone?”

“Charging it? How do I do that?”

“You have to leave it in the moonlight. And that little moon is like the battery indicator. From what I read, the Stone is like a phone—​the more apths you use, the more power they take, and some take more power than others.”

“What else?”

“Hold on.”

Angela pulled out her memo pad and examined her notes.

“You know about m-post?”

“M-post?”

“Magic post. You know, electronic mail is e-mail, magic post is—​”

“Got it.”

“Lemme see. There’s a mapping function that tells you how to travel to different spots in the multiverse, and something about a type of money that lets you pay for new apths, or upgrades, or whatever,” said Angela. “It’s called . . .” She referenced her notes. “TwitCoin. Have you heard of that?” she said to Gorgo.

“TwitCoin?” said Gorgo. “It’s Twexellian Interrealm Tender. It’s the most widely accepted currency across the multiverse.”

Emily was frowning.

“What?” said Angela.

“This all helps, but I still don’t know how to really use the Stone and all the apths.”

“Here’s the thing,” said Angela, indicating her notes again. “From what I read, it’s all about intention. The guide kept talking about that, how the Stone has what it called ‘inner voice recognition.’ It knows what you want. If you concentrate, it will show you the apth you need. But the apth is just part of a spell—​you have to focus your intention to direct the apth to work the way you want it to. I think the intention thing is pretty important.

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