Georgia's Greatness by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Author:Lauren Baratz-Logsted [Greatness, Georgia's]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In an instant, she was gone, leaving Greatorex suspended in thin air about six inches above the chair in which Georgia had been sitting with the cat in her lap. Then the cat leaped to the snowy floor. Three seconds later, Jackie felt a poke on her shoulder.

"It's me," we heard Georgia say.

Two seconds after that, Annie felt a tickle between her ribs.

"That was me too," we heard Georgia say. "I thought you could use a good laugh."

A full minute later, a can of pink frosting and a silver spoon came floating into the room; they landed on the table right in front of Rebecca.

"I thought," we heard Georgia say, "a little pink frosting might improve your mood."

And then, almost immediately, Georgia was with us again: her whole body and not just her voice.

"How did you do all that?" Durinda asked, awed.

"The double nose-twitch," Georgia said calmly, as though she'd been doing it her whole life. "It really does work, and it works both ways."

Then Georgia found Greatorex under a chair and gave her a good scratch beneath the chin. "Thanks, Greatorex. I don't know if I could have figured it out without you. But please stop tormenting the other cats."

"Hey," Rebecca said, "does anyone see what I see? Georgia must be just as crazy as Zinnia! She's talking to her cat as if she expects the cat to understand her."

"Maybe she can," Georgia said with a shrug.

"Oh, I'm worried," Petal said. "I am very worried now."

"About what?" Jackie asked kindly.

"What if Georgia makes herself disappear in the middle of the night?" Petal worried aloud. "What if she comes into my bedroom and starts pinching me in the dark and I can't see her? It will frighten me."

"I promise I won't do that," Georgia said. It was as if she'd somehow grown older that afternoon. "A power is a great responsibility. I promise not to abuse mine." Then a gleam entered her eye. "But you never know. At the right time, in the right place, being able to make yourself disappear and then appear again could come in handy."

Later that night, before going to bed, we remembered to check behind the loose stone in the wall in the drawing room. This time, the note there was the right note.

Dear Georgia,

Nice work... Finally! Five down, eleven to go.

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