Fridays With the Wizards by George Jessica Day

Author:George, Jessica Day [George, Jessica Day]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Childrens, Adventure, Young Adult, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781408858417
Amazon: 140885841X
Goodreads: 25094569
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2016-02-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter

15

Celie screamed and ran.

She shouted for Rufus to follow her, and prayed that he wouldn’t stay to fight. But Rufus must have sensed her fear, because she soon heard him on her heels, his talons scraping the floor as they fled Arkwright. Celie didn’t stop to check if Arkwright followed, she just ran, her ears straining only for the sound of Rufus, not for anyone coming after him.

The passageway ended at a wooden door. Celie skidded through it, slamming it behind Rufus and nearly catching his tail. She put the lockbox over the latch and twisted the knob so hard, she nearly sprained her wrist.

The door fell against her as it came free from the blank stone wall. There was a whoosh, and the tingle in the back of her head flared like a sudden headache. The tingling shot down her back and into her arms and legs before ending suddenly at her fingertips and toes.

Celie staggered back and nearly fell before she managed to prop the door against another wall. She stood there and shook for a while, wondering what had just happened. The trapdoor in her room hadn’t caused such a stir. Rufus looked distinctly ruffled, and was standing with his legs braced, waiting for the next upheaval. When it didn’t come, he shook himself and began to preen.

Celie also shook herself, then ran her hands over the new wall she’d just made, checking for cracks, but the stones were as tightly fitted as the day they’d been built.

“Ha!” Celie said loudly, scaring Rufus, who squawked.

Arkwright was now sealed in that tunnel. If there was no other way out, he’d have to go through the water the way she had. Of course, that would lead him to the trapdoor that led to her parents’ bedchamber . . .

“We have to find a way out of here,” she told Rufus. “We have to warn Mummy and Da—and Bran. And the others!”

She turned and looked around, taking the lockbox off the door as she did so. They were in a small round room, and the only way out appeared to be up a spiraling flight of steps.

“Where on earth are we?”

Rufus sneezed—he didn’t seem to recognize the place, either. So they went up the stairs, and up and up. There were no windows, and Celie was panting from the climb and the musty air when they reached the top.

“Another hatching tower?” Celie asked the question even though she knew the answer.

This wasn’t a hatching tower. It was larger, and didn’t have the sloping floor and enormous windows with sills that were shaped like perches. If anything, it was more like the Spyglass Tower where Celie and Lilah had once hidden from the awful Prince Khelsh.

There were no spyglasses here, though. Instead, each of the four windows had a different brass instrument mounted in it. One looked like some kind of strange compass, while another looked like a combination of a compass and a clock. There was a squat brass trumpet

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