Cassandra the Lucky by Joan Holub

Author:Joan Holub
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

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The Carousel

Cassandra

A DOZEN CHOCOLATE NUT CRUNCH thunderbolts,” boomed a powerful voice. “With sprinkles.” It was Monday morning, and Zeus—King of the Gods and Ruler of the Heavens—was standing in the Oracle-O Bakery, already placing his second cookie order of the day.

Athena hadn’t been kidding about him having a sweet tooth! thought Cassandra as she watched from the bakery kitchen. From her current spot she could see out to the counter, where Laodice and Helenus were helping Zeus, and beyond them into the store.

“Fortunes spoken or written?” Helenus asked Zeus in an awe-filled tone.

“Spoken, of course,” said Zeus in a voice that crackled with authority.

“Certainly,” said Laodice, shooting their brother a questioning glance. Helenus must be nervous, thought Cassandra. Why else would he have asked Zeus that? Immortals always got Helenus’s magic spoken fortunes. Except for the ones Cassandra herself sent to MOA without permission last week.

Cassandra wasn’t the only one watching Zeus buy cookies. The construction in the scrollbook shop next door was now finished. While doing the cleanup, the workers kept peeking into the bakery through the open archway that connected the two stores, so they could stare in wonderment at the bakery’s powerful customer.

A crowd had gathered out in the IM atrium too, to peer through the bakery’s front windows. The King of the Gods was a busy guy and didn’t come here often, so immortals and mortals alike were naturally curious!

Once word got around that Zeus had bought thunderbolt cookies, Cassandra figured other customers would also want to order them. So she started making more of the chocolate nut crunch cookie dough.

As she kneaded a big ball of dough in the bakery kitchen, she watched her sister choose twelve perfect thunderbolt-shaped chocolate nut crunch Oracle-O cookies and put them into a tissue-lined white box. They all had Helenus’s fortunes inside them, of course. Not Cassandra’s.

She couldn’t help noticing that Laodice’s hands shook a little as she handed the cookies over to Zeus. Probably afraid of accidentally getting zapped by the tiny sparks that ran up and down his muscled arms, thought Cassandra. Zeus lit up with excitement just like a little kid as he took the box. Unable to wait he opened it on his way out and began munching a thunderbolt before he’d even left the store.

“You have an electric personality!” the cookie told him as he pushed open the door.

Cassandra rolled her eyes. That was no fortune. By giving him “prophecies” like that, Helenus was just stroking Zeus’s ego like their mom had asked him to. Understandably, Hecuba didn’t want anything to go wrong during Zeus’s visit! Especially the upcoming author event the King of the Gods had helped plan.

Elaborate invitations had gone out this morning to a guest list that included royalty, immortals, and the greatest heroes on Earth. A big announcement had also been placed in the Greekly Weekly News to invite mortals to the bakery and scrollbook shop this coming Saturday. It was going to be tons of fun, with Zeus and Homer as the star attractions.

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