Wicked Marigold by Caroline Carlson

Author:Caroline Carlson [Carlson, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781536237573
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2024-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

The only place in the fortress where neither Collin nor Pettifog ever went was Marigold’s midnight-dark room. Pettifog refused to put so much as a hoof inside, although he did tell Marigold as often as he could that the room had been much more pleasant when Rosalind had lived there. When Collin had first seen it, he’d stuck a hand into the midnight darkness, where it had disappeared at once. “Don’t you bump into things?” he’d asked Marigold, pulling his hand back into the light.

“Constantly,” Marigold had admitted. “Being wicked is very bruising.”

Now, in bed under the blanket she could feel but couldn’t see, Marigold closed her eyes. She’d planned to try an exercise from Evil in Twenty-Three Minutes a Day that had instructed her to count her heartbeats each night before falling asleep, willing them to slow down until, one day, they stopped altogether. But no matter how hard Marigold tried to focus on her withering heart, she kept getting distracted by a pattern of prickling vines with large indigo blossoms that wound its way through her memory and across the backs of her eyelids. She wondered if Blumontaine had already chopped down the indigo stranglers or if Queen Hetty had found another wizard to send quicksand to Foggy Gorge. Were all those people really working and worrying through the night because of a story Marigold had invented? What if someone fell into the quicksand? What if they were hurt, or worse? Marigold tried not to mind, but it was no use: she stayed awake half the night, counting the heartbeats that refused to stop.

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