Timespell by Diana Paz

Author:Diana Paz [Diana Paz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rhemalda Publishing
Published: 2013-03-02T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Julia

Julia squeezed her eyes shut. Time travel was the hardest power to get used to. Heat filled her chest as Angie worked the threads of time. She remembered a weekend up in Big Bear. She and her mom made snowmen and snow angels and stomped around until Julia’s toes ached from the cold. After her mom peeled off her wet things, Julia sat in a steaming bath, shivering as her frozen body prickled with painful heat, as if it were waking up. The magic hurt in that same, good way, reaching deep parts of her that had gone numb.

All of a sudden, it stopped and she opened her eyes.

Metal bars crisscrossed above her, intertwined so tightly she couldn’t see the sky above.

Where had Angie taken them?

The network of metal overhead formed four archways all around them. Beyond each archway stretched a lawn, like some kind of a park. Modern day people wearing jeans and ball caps and other regular clothing were everywhere. Julia stood up too quickly, swaying on her feet. People raised cell phones and cameras, wearing the kinds of excited smiles she had only seen when there was about to be a fight at school.

“Kaitlyn!” Angie yelled. “Quick, make us invisible!”

“Oh, suddenly I’m valuable,” she muttered, taking their hands. Julia was too weak to care how much magic Kaitlyn took from her, too confused to do anything but stare out at the crowd.

“Hurry,” Angie said.

“I’m trying! Stop distracting me!”

Someone blew a whistle. Men ran toward them, dressed in dark blue and wearing round, flat-topped hats. They skidded to a stop, their faces twisting in horror just as a gasp came from the crowd.

“There,” Kaitlyn said. “Invisible.”

Julia looked down at herself. As always, her heart dropped to the pit of her stomach at the sight of her emptiness. This was her least favorite of their powers. She could see her outline, like the smudged edges of a piece of glass, but it didn’t make her feel much better.

“Come on,” Angie said, pulling them forward and through one of the massive archways of metal. Everyone with their cameras and cell phones, even the police, kept staring at the spot where they had been.

“Where are we?” Julia asked.

“Still in Paris,” Angie said. “I Voyaged us to the present. Look.”

Julia turned around. The crisscross pattern of metal they had been under was the base of the Eiffel Tower. “I don’t get it.”

“There was no Eiffel Tower until 1889,” Angie said. “That field we were in before—the one where we time traveled from— it’s what this place looked like in the time of Marie Antoinette.”

“Great,” Kaitlyn said. “We’re in the right time but in the wrong place. Time to ask the all-powerful Julia to Journey us home.”

“Julia isn’t strong enough to Journey us right now,” Angie said.

The outline of two slim arms rose to Kaitlyn’s hips. “She can try.”

“That’s not a good idea. We don’t understand these powers well enough to know our limitations, and we’re all still weak from time traveling. If Julia’s magic gives out halfway across the Atlantic .

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