The Magnificent 12: The Key by Michael Grant
Author:Michael Grant [Grant, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Published: 2012-08-21T04:00:00+00:00
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Fifteen
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Fortunately, in addition to being excellent inventors, the Scots know a bit about medicine, too. The captain was patched up. Dietmar and Sylvie were treated for their not-too-serious injuries.
Cost: 0.00 GBP.23
It was still two days before the Magnifica managed to leave Scotland.
They drove away toward the nearest airportâin Invernessâdestroying quite a number of mailboxes, lampposts, fences, and, of course, side mirrors en route.
The road they drove on was already lined with signs and billboards hastily altered to take advantage of the new situation. Everywhere they looked, âSearch for the Loch Ness Monster!â had already been changed to âSee the Loch Ness Duck!â
The traffic heading toward the loch was practically gridlocked.
The tourism businessâwhich had sputtered along on one ruined castle and an elusive mythical beastânow exploded with the addition of a castle only some people could see, and a massive duck everyone could actually feed.
They never heard from Frank again. And the only thing the All-Mother had to say was a loud, furious quack.
It was a short flight to Paris. Just long enough for Mack to get Sylvieâs story. (Cost of six one-way tickets to Paris: 3,023.28 GBP.24)
She told it in excellent English and with a French accent Mack found charming. For a while he hoped that his paying attention to Sylvie would inspire some jealousy in Xiao. But it didnât. And why he should want her to be jealous he couldnât possibly have explained. Any number of things had changed for Mack latelyâhe had a golem, his former bully was now his bodyguard, he was bearing enormous responsibilities, and he could apparently turn dinosaur sea serpents into giant ducksâbut at the same time some much more mundane changes were taking place.
He was beginning to see the world differently. He was seeing people differently.
He was even seeing himself differently, and it was all a bit disturbing. Given that he had plenty of craziness going on, the personal changes were mostly unwelcome.
But there was no escaping the fact that he had gone from not caring about girls as anything other than a sort of subspecies of kids at school to paying slightly more attention to them and wishing they would pay slightly more attention to him.
In this he was behind the girls, who had long since begun to notice boys and had already formed some pretty definite opinions about them in general and Mack in particular.
There were many things that Vargran might cure, but boys being just a few steps behind girls was too basic a fact of life for mere magic to alter.
âI have always known that I was strange,â Sylvie said as the jet rose steeply away from Inverness and arced out over the sea. âAs a little girl I did not play with dolls. I did not play at all, except in my imagination. In my imagination I saw myself as a warrior, and a companion to other warriors. Strange, no? Because most little girls see themselves as princesses.â
âStrange maybe,â Mack allowed. âBut Xiao is a dragon, so the bar is pretty high on âstrangeâ in this group.
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