Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis

Author:Stephanie Burgis [Burgis, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stephanie Burgis
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

We stepped out of the knot garden over an hour later, laughing and triumphant and enclosed in perfect bubbles of warmth. My cloak was steaming nicely within my bubble, and my chest felt even warmer as I watched Miss Banks dance ahead of me down the narrow path, perfectly untouched by the snow that fell around her.

It wasn’t the easiest spell for a beginner to learn. But by the end, she had managed it perfectly...and neither of our bubbles had a single leak.

If the Great Library didn’t allow her in, I would eat my hat.

...And then I would eat their hidebound old selves, too! They might imagine that they could get away with accepting one woman student and then being rid of females forever, but they were wrong. I wouldn’t be the last of us! I swore that now as I reveled in Miss Banks’s delight.

I was finished with hiding. If the Great Library tried to turn her away—a girl with this much overflowing magical ability—I would talk to all of the same newspapers that had reviled me before, and I would shout and scream about the injustice until it became a story to enrage the world.

I would do whatever it took to allow a whole stream of laughing, bright young women to follow in my path and take it further than I had ever managed, and then I would—

*Pop!*

The bubble of spellcast warmth was gone.

Snow swirled around me as I came to a halt, frowning. Had Miss Banks’s spell broken? Or—

Wait.

I jerked around, sudden panic thrumming through my skin.

A familiar silhouette stood in the distance. Watching me. I couldn’t see his expression, but I didn’t need to. The popping of that bubble had been more than message enough.

It said, You have no protection from me.

Everyone knew that elves liked to play games with their prey...and more than one bubble had just been popped.

Miss Banks danced on ahead of me, unaware, just as bright and hopeful and full of potential as ever.

But as I looked after her, I felt the weight of reality settle heavily around my shoulders. Anything that I wanted to do for her or for the future of other magical girls would all have to be done within the next six days...

Because after that, I might not have any future of my own.

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