Stealing Snow by Danielle Paige

Author:Danielle Paige [Paige, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781681190778
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-07-26T04:00:00+00:00

As we made our way down the hall, Jagger tried to explain the Queen’s behavior.

“She’s not a real queen. Margot was born without royal or magical blood. She came from nothing and nowhere, and she built all of this.”

I feigned interest in the wallpaper as we walked. I did not want to talk about what had happened back there. I had thought I had come so far with Nepenthe. But it was luck instead of intent that stopped me from slicing Margot in half with my icicles.

“It’s not you. Well, it is,” Jagger continued.

The walls were adorned with a variety of sconces—each one unique—and tapestries from different time periods.

“We… spent a lot of magic in the Other World,” he explained. “I was sent there to find someone.”

“And I’m not what they expected?”

“You’re not who they expected. I was supposed to bring back Margot’s daughter, a girl who had gotten lost. But I found you instead.”

“Lucky me.”

“Hopefully, lucky for all of us,” he said ruefully. “I’d used a locator spell to find Margot’s daughter. Only magic’s a little more imprecise once you get to the other side of the Tree. Or at least it’s supposed to be. I felt a surge of magic when I was looking for her. Unlike anything I’d ever felt. And it turned out to be you.”

I thought of the time I’d pushed Magpie and she wound up paralyzed on the floor of the Whittaker drawing room. I didn’t know it then, or maybe I did deep down. I remembered how cold she was and the blue of her lips. Her accident must have been caused by my snow. By me. It had to be that.

“And how did you know who I was?”

“You look just like your mother.”

Jagger took a coin from his pocket and flipped it in my direction. I caught it—to my surprise. I was never much of an athlete. On one side of the coin was my face staring back at me. Only, it wasn’t me. It was Mom.

“Your mother was the only royalty anyone ever believed in. At least in my lifetime.”

“Why?”

“Even though she was a witch, she was really just a common person like the rest of us. Lazar married her anyway, and it gave people hope, even after he froze our lands over.”

I felt my eyes go wide in disbelief. My mother was a lot of things. Now, I could even buy that she turned out to be a magical being from another land. But one of the people? My mother was always above … apart.

“Did you know her?” I demanded, annoyed at him suddenly. This bit of information seemed like something he should have mentioned before now.

“I don’t remember her, but the elders do. She died young, saving her child. Your mother was the stuff that legends are made of—except the story turns out to be only half-true. She is alive, and so are you.”

“Who is Margot’s daughter?” I asked.

“It doesn’t matter.”

“I bet it matters to the other girls here. It’s Magpie, isn’t it? Magpie is Margot’s daughter? You saw her at Whittaker.

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