Enough About Me by S. G. Wilson

Author:S. G. Wilson [Wilson, S. G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2021-08-17T00:00:00+00:00

You’d think extinguishing a small fire would be no sweat for wizard teachers at a magic school. But for that to be true, you’d need a better magic school than the Polymagic Vocational Institute.

Lunt, Pooplaski, and O’Fartly each cast spells that might have put out the flames, if they hadn’t cast them all at the same time. Pooplaski conjured a big wad of fire extinguisher foam, but it melted under the miniature rainstorm conjured by Lunt. The storm might have done the trick if O’Fartly hadn’t cast a magical gust of air that blew the cloud away and fed the fire. The inferno raged on hotter than ever, gobbling up half the table as the teachers squeaked like baby orcs.

Meticulous couldn’t stop laughing. “Look at their faces! Worth the price of admission!”

“You’ve got to stop it!” Motor hissed at me.

“I don’t know how!” I said.

Suddenly, a Twig in a wizard robe much snazzier than ours stepped into the auditorium. She looked confident and beautiful, like all Twigs I’d met, but with the added mystery of magic. She waved her hand, and a wildebeest appeared out of thin air to stand at her side. The creature seemed to be made entirely out of thick wool, and when it leapt onto the burning desk, it unfurled into a huge blanket that snuffed out the flames in a heartbeat.

“Was that like her Patronus?” I asked. “She collects wildebeest dolls and figures, you know.”

“Yes, yes, I knew that about her too,” said Meticulous. “Stop showing off.”

Lunt looked both relieved and embarrassed to see Twig. “If it isn’t my top former student, who transferred to Practical Magical Academy. But I’m not bitter about that. What brings you to these parts?”

Before she could answer, Nash strolled in. He wore a snazzy wizard robe too, plus a very smug look on his face. “We’ll get to that in a moment,” said Nash. “First, are you sure there aren’t any more fires you need us to put out for you?”

O’Fartly forced a laugh, but he wasn’t fooling anybody. “This particular fire was just a fluke. And we were on the verge of finding out who started it.”

I might have come clean, just to spare the other students the grief. But all those times getting in trouble with the Lunt of my world had hardwired me against fessing up to anything around him.

Motor started shaking from nerves. The guilt was getting to him. Should I have felt guilty too? Was I so far gone to the dark side that I had no remorse?

“Play it cool,” said Meticulous, stealing the words from my mouth.

“Actually, I’m rather impressed anybody here could do real magic, even by accident,” said Nash.

Twig shot him an 85 percent eyebrow arch. “That’s very rude. I animated my first golem here.”

Nash shrugged. “That was back in this school’s glory days.”

Sighing, Twig turned to the teachers. “You can still do your investigation. I just need to borrow Macadamia Macon.”

“Why do you need Flying Carpet Boy?” asked Lunt.

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