Everyday Magic by Jess Kidd

Everyday Magic by Jess Kidd

Author:Jess Kidd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canongate Books


CHAPTER 15

Zita in Trouble!

As night fell, the witches up at Switherbroom Hall continued celebrating, only quietly. The Head Witch announced she was having an early night and climbed aboard her plane. The ladder was pulled up after her, but her plane stayed parked outside the house.

The news was that Prunella had decided to stay for a few days. So the visiting witches would all be staying too – they didn’t want to miss a good fight!

Tents were put up on the lawn and fires lit under cauldrons. Inside Switherbroom Hall, every bed, chair and window ledge was taken. Witches shook out green-and-black striped sleeping bags and cosied down with their Familiars.

The ghostly librarian had locked the library doors. He would not permit any witches to sleep in his library.

Alfie couldn’t even think of sleeping.

He lay on his bed with his eyes wide open.

Would Calypso tell Prunella everything?

Would Prunella help Calypso to get Nova back?

Would he be shipped off to Pinny Blackstack’s tomorrow?

The big house was silent.

He still had to return the bottle of All-Purpose Witching Powder he’d taken from the kitchen. Everyone would surely be asleep by now.

Alfie tiptoed through the house to the kitchen, stepping over snoring witches. Two bats raced each other up and down the hallway, until soft whistles from their witches brought them back to nestle under blankets or hang from a curtain pole.

A light was still on in the kitchen. Alfie peeped through the door. Gertrude and Zita were sitting at the table with Rafferty and Magnus next to them. All of them were peering into a large bowl placed in the middle of the table.

The lyrebird was asleep on its perch in the corner of the room.

Alfie moved nearer, setting the door creaking. Gertrude looked up. She held a finger over her mouth and beckoned Alfie forward.

Zita scowled at him, then returned her attention to the bowl on the table.

With horror, Alfie saw that the bowl was full of water and in that water wriggled a tangle of worms.

The worms were making patterns.

Not just patterns . . . the worms were making words!

Zita tapped the water in the bowl with a pen.

Alfie read:

We are being listened to

Not just by the Lyrebird

Prunella is up to no good. Why was Calypso with her?



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