The Castle of Tangled Magic by Sophie Anderson

Author:Sophie Anderson [Anderson, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2022-05-17T00:00:00+00:00

The dark thing flying toward me draws closer, and I back away into the room. But as I look, I see that it’s a creature, not the cloak. Feathered, with two wings open wide to catch the wind and four long, slim legs that are galloping so fast they’re almost a blur. It’s an enormous black horse, soaring swiftly through the sky.

Every time a hoof descends, there is a burst of sound, as if the air is being thumped away. The horse lifts its head and makes a loud braying noise. My muscles tighten with fear until I spot the familiar shape of Feliks standing on the horse’s back. His orange mustache and beard are trailing in the wind.

“Feliks!” I shout. A smile beams across my face at the sight of my friend, and I realize this is my way to escape.

“Hurry!” he shouts back. “There is no time to waste!”

The horse slows, then hovers steadily in front of me, its wings curved in two arcs, its legs still beating the sky. Feliks beckons me again with a wave, and I stare at the horse’s back, which is covered in black feathers. I’ll have to jump over a sheer, endless drop to reach it. I take a breath to fill myself with courage, aim carefully, then leap.

Feliks grabs my hands and pulls me safely onto the horse’s back. I collapse, my legs bent either side of the horse above its wings and clutch its feathered neck, which is as soft as Rosa’s curls. My heart thunders. I’ve never ridden a horse before, let alone a flying one.

The horse lifts its wings high, then sweeps them down, and beats its legs faster. It rises, then banks and swoops away. I sit up and stare at the tower I was trapped in: an enormous blue cylinder, almost the same color as the sky, somehow floating impossibly in the air. I try to ask Feliks how he knew where to find me and rode here on a flying horse. But the thump of the horse’s hooves on the sky and the wind rushing past whip my words away.

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