Knights of the Ruby Wand by Tony Abbott

Author:Tony Abbott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2016-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

With a cold laugh, King Anga hopped into his cradle and was hoisted all the way up to his palace-top throne room.

“Move along now,” Pinch said to the children, prodding them with his stick. He marched the kids around the back of the palace. “Prince Anga is already miffed. You don’t want him any madder.”

“King Anga,” said Julie. “You said ‘Prince.’”

“Right. Well, it keeps changing, doesn’t it?” Pinch said as they neared the patio. “It’s probably changing again while we’re doing this. Don’t know how much higher he can go, though. King’s about the top as far as titles go.”

We have to end this silly business and get that wand, Neal said silently.

But how? asked Julie.

I’m working on it, said Keeah.

At least, she was trying to.

But her mind was a jumble of worries. There were the wand’s strange control of nature, the fact that Anga wouldn’t give it up, the approach of the Skorth navy, and her parents’ safety. To say nothing of Eric’s curse — poor Eric! — the battle towers, Galen’s kidnapping, and the five days before the attack that were now four and would soon be three.

It was all so … overwhelming!

“Here you are, then!”

The weasel captain halted in front of a gate that led into the back of Anga’s palace. Towering over the gate was the giant construction itself, made of tree limbs and planks that rose hundreds of feet in the air, all the way to the tip of the tower, where Anga now sat.

“Into the patio,” said Pinch. “Maybe you’ll find Anga at the top. Maybe not. See you … Well, no, we probably won’t see you.”

“Hold on,” said Julie. “This is the patio?”

“Sorry, yes,” said Pinch. “Many poor souls have been lost in it. Sad, really.”

“It doesn’t look like any patio I’ve ever seen,” said Neal. “And I have a patio.”

Pinch sighed. “Well, it started as a normal patio off the back of the palace. I mean, Anga always wanted one —”

“King Anga,” said Julie.

“Yeah, him,” said Pinch. “But since he found the wand, he got these big ideas. He told us to add stairs and another level, then a slide back to the first level. But we made the slide too long, so we had to build a third level to slide down from. But that turned out to be too tall, so we needed more stairs, but they were too short. So we added a ladder, but Anga said, ‘Put a curve in it,’ which meant adding a level between two and three. But when we renumbered the levels, we somehow got level five, which was just sitting there with no way to get to it, so we added a bridge, which runs all the way up to the balcony on level seven —”

“Level seven?” said Neal. “What happened to level six?”

“Six is Anga’s unlucky number,” said Pinch. “So there is no sixth level. Which makes it even more confusing. So Anga decided to turn the patio into a trial for finding his knights.

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