Marabel and the Book of Fate by Tracy Barrett

Author:Tracy Barrett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2018-02-06T00:00:00+00:00

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Marabel happily signed her name, and then initialed where the faery’s long finger pointed to a line that read “All returns final. Item will not be sent back to faeryland.”

“Thank goodness,” the faery said as he hurried away. “Don’t bother to write!” he called over his shoulder right before he vanished.

The girls turned to Floriano. “What ever made you go with him?” Ellie asked as they stroked his white mane. He curved his neck proudly, as though being kicked out of faeryland was a great accomplishment.

“It was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen,” he answered. “Something glinted in the sunlight, and when I looked at it, a blue unicorn with a white mane and a golden horn was looking back at me.” The girls exchanged puzzled glances. This was a perfect description of Floriano himself. “I’d never seen anything so lovely. When you wouldn’t come with me, I decided to make his acquaintance. But I couldn’t get to him. He was behind a piece of glass and whenever I moved, he did, too. While I was looking, that guy—the one who brought me back—cast a spell on me.” He shuddered. “He led me to a strange place. I think it must have been faeryland.”

“Floriano,” Marabel said, “that was a mirror. You were looking at your own reflection in a mirror.”

“I was looking at my own what in a what?”

“It’s a piece of glass with something shiny painted on the back so you can see what you look like,” Marabel explained. “You’ve never seen one?”

Floriano rolled his eyes. “Do you think there are things like mirrors in a stable? Would donkeys really want to see what they look like?”

“But surely you’ve seen your reflection in water!” Ellie exclaimed.

Floriano shook his head. “That never works very well. This was much better. I always knew I was pretty, but I didn’t know I was that pretty,” he said happily. “Can I have one of those mirror things when we get home? I know the perfect spot for it in my stall!”

“He’ll be impossible from now on,” Ellie whispered.

Floriano’s return renewed Marabel’s sense of purpose, and they headed east again with fresh energy.

Soon, they saw something that made them forget how tired and hungry they were. It was a road.

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