Of Mice and Magic by Ursula Vernon

Author:Ursula Vernon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2016-02-16T18:11:39+00:00

“Cancer’s got it the worst,” said Gemini, “but we call him Crabby.”

“Crabby?”

“The zodiac sign for Cancer is a crab. And you’d be crabby too if your name was Cancer.”

“Fair enough . . .” said Harriet.

“So anyway, Mom put a curse on the princesses,” said the mole. “They have to come down here and dance with us. And when the spell is finally complete, our families will be united, and they’ll have to come live down here forever.” He didn’t sound thrilled by the prospect.

“We can’t talk about it,” said August, returning. “Not to anyone who doesn’t know about the curse already. I mean, we try and our throats close up.” She did a brief jitterbug in place. “And we have to keep dancing and January has to put a sleeping potion into the hot chocolate every night.”

“Is there a curse on you too?” Harriet asked Gemini. “Is that why you’re dancing?”

Gemini stared at her. “You have clearly never met my mother.”

“No, but I expect I shall,” said Harriet.

The mole sighed. “We don’t get a choice,” he admitted. “Aries refused once, said he didn’t want to dance, and she turned his claws into sponges for a week.”

“Sponges?” said Harriet, baffled.

“It was horrible,” said Gemini. “He kept trying to dig and all he did was get the dirt really, really soggy.”

The hamster had to admit that this was ingenious. “So you don’t like dancing either?”

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