Aru Shah and the Song of Death by Roshani Chokshi
Author:Roshani Chokshi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2019-05-03T16:00:00+00:00
Aiden Brings the Smolder
Aru, Aiden, and Brynne followed the bright smoke out the door.
The second they crossed the threshold of the chaat shop, Aru felt a pull of magic right behind her belly button. It was the same feeling she got every time she used a portal. She blinked, and when she opened her eyes, they were no longer on a street in Edison, New Jersey. Instead, they were standing on a stretch of lawn facing a massive building. The trail of bright smoke led right to the front door.
It was, Aru thought, the most unmagical structure she had ever seen. Squat, long, screaming nine-to-five adult job, and painted a shade of depressed supermarket egg. And yet, she knew they were somewhere in the Otherworld, because no matter which direction she faced, she found herself staring at the same building. It didn’t feel like winter here. It didn’t feel like anything. Aru couldn’t even see the sun.
“Freaky,” said Aiden, spinning in a circle.
“That is the Department of Many Voices?” asked Brynne.
“Definitely looks like a DMV,” said Aiden.
“Not only the DMV,” said Aru, looking at the plain white sign on the lawn. In small letters, it read ASHRAM. Whenever Aru thought of an ashram, she imagined a posh spa where rich people paid someone to identify the color of their aura. But she knew that the word ashram had originated in India. It was like a monastery, a place where hermits went. The austere outside of the DMV definitely fit that definition.
The three of them walked up the sidewalk and through the pair of glass entrance doors. In the lobby—which had both hand sanitizer and hoof sanitizer dispensers on a stand—there was a wide reception desk with a calendar and a box of paperclips, and a box of what looked like Kleenex but read: CURSE WIPES. A girl their age poked her head up behind the desk. She was a fair-skinned nature spirit, a yakshini, with tendrils of frost for hair. A badge on her black shirt read:
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