The Golden Frog Games (Witchlings 2) by Claribel A. Ortega

Author:Claribel A. Ortega
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

SEVEN WANTED TO HIDE under her bed forever, but she had to go to school instead. The worst alternative to hiding, actually. It was bad enough everyone thought she had summoned the Nightbeast, but to have to endure the cardboard-adjacent pizza they got for lunch on Wednesdays was too much to ask.

“I can drive you,” Talis said as Seven ate breakfast the morning after her disastrous performance at the outdoor arena.

“It’ll just look like I’m scared if you do that. I’ll walk like I always do. Thanks, though.”

Fox put her hands on her hips. “What about Valley or Thorn? I haven’t seen them around here in ages. Are you girls fighting?”

Seven cringed. Did her mom have mind-reading powers or something?!

“They’re just busy. Thorn’s a champion, and Valley is always with Graves nowadays …”

Graves. The name only made Seven’s stomach flip. She had to find out if she or Wren were the hexers if it was the last thing she did.

Talis and Fox looked at each other.

“Are you upset because you’d rather be spending time with Valley like Graves is, or … ?”

Seven was pulled out of her train of thought. “What? No, Mami, oh my goats.” Seven covered her face. “I don’t like Valley that way!”

Seven really didn’t, even though if she did, her mom and dad were the last people she’d tell. And it wasn’t because Valley was a girl. Seven didn’t care much about that. In the past six months alone, she’d had short-lived crushes on ten people in her class. Her brain was becoming a menace. Besides, there was … maybe someone else she might like that way, she thought, thinking of ink-black hair and soft brown eyes.

“You’re going to be thirteen this autumn. It’s normal to have feelings for people and for those feelings to get confusing,” Talis tried.

“Mom, Dad? I know you’re trying to help, but you’re killing me right now. It was just nice having Thorn and Valley around all the time, and now I’m on my own more, that’s all!”

“You have me,” said Edgar from his tank.

“I know, Edgar, and I love you,” Seven said.

Her parents’ eyes widened for just a moment, and then they seemed to remember, Ah yes, our daughter can literally speak to animals. It couldn’t have been easy to get used to, but they were doing their best. She couldn’t imagine what they would say if they knew about her monstruo powers. The Gran had tested her for any irregularities in her magic and had so far found nothing, but they were all still worried about her after the Nightbeast incident, and had decided Seven needed a break from her Uncle training while the Gran continued her testing. Ironically, she had never felt better, but she agreed, since it would give her more time to find the hexer. So long as nobody found out, she wouldn’t end up like Delphinium.

“A protest broke out overnight in Boggs Ferry as unrest surrounding Spares and their place in the Twelve Towns grows,” said Tiordan Whisperbrew from the small telecaster in their kitchen.

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