Indigo Magic by Victoria Hanley

Author:Victoria Hanley
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409046233
Publisher: RHCP

Chapter Twenty-five

PORTALS TO EARTH SHOULD NEVER BE CREATED LIGHTLY. A DOORWAY BETWEEN WORLDS IS NO TRIVIAL MATTER, AND TOO MANY OF THE FEY ARE WILLING TO FLOUT THE LAWS OF THE LAND TO BECOME SMUGGLERS. TO THOSE LAW-BREAKERS, A SECRET PORTAL IS WORTH MANY THOUSANDS OF RADIA, AND THEY WILL GUARD ITS LOCATION WITH STEADFAST PURPOSE.

Orville Gold, genie historian of Feyland

MY FRIENDS WERE waiting, but they didn’t exactly give me a delighted welcome. Andalonus was the only one to return my grin. Leona was apparently still miffed at how I’d transported away without giving her a chance to join me; she wasn’t truly scowling, but then Leona Bloodstone didn’t have to scowl to make her anger known. Her eyes had a slaty glint, a sure sign she was trying to control her temper. And though Meteor’s face lit up for a half an instant when he first saw me arrive, he immediately frowned.

‘You said you would be here,’ he grumbled.

I spoke in a rush. ‘I’m sorry, but I didn’t want to waste time. Listen to this – I have it! The humans really did collect comet dust. They used their technology and—’

‘You have comet dust?’ Meteor interrupted.

‘Yes!’ I brought out the vial and waved it. ‘Every speck they had on Earth.’

Leona dropped her grudge immediately. ‘Zaree, you’re a wonder!’

‘How did you find it?’ Andalonus asked.

It wasn’t easy to tell them how I’d gathered the dust without mentioning Sam, but that’s what I did. I had to dodge two dozen pointed questions from Leona, but the genies didn’t pry. Meteor seemed to understand I had secrets to keep. Maybe he also guessed the nature of those secrets, but if so, he said nothing. Andalonus just listened.

When I got to the point in the story where I thought of making aevia ray myself, both Leona and Andalonus got so excited at the thought of defeating Lily Morganite and restoring Feyland, they started zooming around the room yelling with glee.

But then Leona stopped in mid flight and turned to Meteor. ‘There must be more to aevia ray than comet dust, and we don’t know the other ingredients,’ she lamented.

Meteor’s emerald eyes looked newly polished as he smiled at her. ‘Yes, we do.’

I leaped at him, and he scooped me into his arms. It was our turn to fly through the room together. We spun joyfully, and for a moment I might have been taking my first dance with the pixies, I felt so light and carefree.

Then Andalonus bounced in front of us. ‘So tell us, O master know-it-all,’ he said to Meteor. ‘Are the rest of the ingredients for aevia ray as easy to get as comet dust?’

‘Ha,’ I said as Meteor and I floated to the floor and let go of each other.

‘Oh yes, so easy,’ Meteor answered. ‘For one, aevia ray requires troll magic.’

I cringed.

‘Not to mention the cooperation of gremlins and pixies,’ Meteor continued. He flipped a scroll out of his robe. ‘Here’s the list.’

I took it and sat between Andalonus and Leona to read Meteor’s neat script.

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