Magic Gambit (Hidden World Academy Book 3) by Sadie Moss

Author:Sadie Moss [Moss, Sadie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-02T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

We’re all stuck with little more than our heads up above the sand.

Theo sounds like he’s close to hyperventilating but is trying to keep his breathing somewhat even so that he doesn’t make it worse for himself by freaking out. Cross is grunting, straining, still trying to break free. Kasian is silent, but I can practically hear the gears turning in his mind as he runs through different scenarios, trying to find one that’ll get us out of this.

There’s only one scenario I can think of. “Madame Mulfrey!” I yell at the top of my lungs.

All those traps seemed to activate on us at once. Maybe that’s because they weren’t traps that were just laid down for anyone to stumble into, like the others, but deliberately released on us. Maybe the interpreter is watching us right now from wherever she is, waiting to see who we are.

“Madame Mulfrey!” I yell again. “Please, please let us go! We’re just here to get help! I don’t care if it’s bad news, I won’t blame you, I know it’s not your fault!”

It’s not even Roxie’s fault, even though I spent a long time being pissed at her. She didn’t ask to have a prophecy center around her, or for that prophecy to foretell the destruction of the world.

None of us asked for this.

But here we are.

About to get buried alive in sand.

“We just want answers, please!” I gasp, calling as loud as I can and almost inhaling a lungful of sand. “It’s a matter of life and death! My whole world will die if you don’t help us, please, I promise we won’t hurt you!”

There’s a terrifying moment where I think I must be wrong. That she hasn’t heard us and these were traps activated by us after all, or that she has heard us and just doesn’t believe me. But then… then the quicksand reverses.

Instead of sucking us down, it pushes us back up, up and out, until we’re practically being spat onto a patch of dry land, a small island of dirt in the middle of the swamp.

Theo retches, going onto his hands and knees. Cross pats him on the back, grimacing in empathy, as Kasian looks us all up and down for injuries.

I stagger to my feet and look around.

Up ahead, still on the island of land, a house shimmers into view. There was some kind of cloaking magic on it, obviously, because it wasn’t there a second ago—not that we could see, anyway. It’s just like the magic we put on our tents with the other students, only I suspect it’s a much more powerful version of that spell.

It’s a squat wooden house, the kind you’d expect to find in the middle of nowhere, with moss hanging off of it, and a small porch with a rocking chair. A thin trail of smoke comes out of a rock chimney at the side of the house.

It looks rather cozy.

The front door opens, and an older woman steps out of it.

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