Floods 11 by Colin Thompson

Author:Colin Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Published: 2012-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

When everyone else had gone to bed, Betty went over to the window, climbed onto the sill and said THE FLYING SPELL.20

‘I’ve been grounded,’ she said as she and Merlin sat by the lake drinking her latest smoothie variety, during the making of which quite a lot of maggots were seriously harmed.

‘Bit ironic, that.’ Merlin laughed. ‘Seeing as how you’re the only other person in the whole of Transylvania Waters who can leave the ground and fly!’

‘The other person?’ said Betty. ‘You don’t mean my mother can fly, do you? Please tell me it’s not her.’

Merlin shook his head and rose slowly in the air.

‘Of course,’ said Betty. ‘I should have known.’

‘We could have a little outing,’ said Merlin. ‘Fly off somewhere interesting. There are so many millions of interesting things to see in this world. If we went somewhere every night for the next hundred years, there would still be much, much more to see.’

‘Wow,’ said Betty. ‘How far could we go in one night? I mean, if I wasn’t back home by dawn my mother would totally freak out.’

‘Well, if we used the Speed of Light Spell, we could go anywhere on earth we wanted,’ said Merlin. ‘But I’m not sure you’re ready for that yet. I remember my father telling me about a young wizard who tried it before he was ready and he went everywhere in the entire world at once.’

‘That sounds amazing.’

‘Well, no, it doesn’t,’ said the old wizard. ‘He went everywhere at the same time. In other words, every one of his atoms went off at the same time in totally different directions.’

‘So how did they all get back again?’ said Betty.

‘They didn’t,’ said Merlin. ‘If you take a microscope anywhere you can think of and look at anything you can think of and magnify it really big, you will see one of the young wizard’s atoms.’

‘Oh.’

‘Exactly,’ said Merlin. ‘So if you don’t want every one of your atoms to rush off and hold hands with young Higgs Boson of Brentford’s, I think we’ll keep away from the Speed of Light Spell for a while.’

Betty agreed.

‘You will know when you are ready,’ Merlin told her. ‘Anyway, there are still millions of places we can go to and back in one night.’

Betty decided she would like to have dinner in the world’s greatest restaurants, or rather those that were within flying distance. She told Merlin she would go on Google and make a list.

She decided she would ‘borrow’ the best recipes from the best restaurants and improve them in her own special way. She was desperate to tell Ffiona about it, but knew she couldn’t. In the meantime, she decided to make a detour on her way home and dig up Letitia Puddle’s cookery book from the old tearoom.

It turned out that her grandfather had also been at school with Letitia. In fact, he had had a bit of a crush on her.

‘Ah Letitia, I remember her well,’ said Merlin. ‘It had the best water you could get anywhere.

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