Song of the Unicorns (Avalon: Web of Magic #7) by Rachel Roberts

Author:Rachel Roberts [Roberts, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Premier Digital Publishing
Published: 2013-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

GLOWING GOLDEN SUNLIGHT crested the horizon over the Happy Trails Ranch. The mages and Dreamer walked quietly but quickly past the cabins. They’d awoken at dawn to check on the unicorns while the rest of the resort was still sleeping.

“So, what’s the plan?” Kara asked the healer.

“I don’t know, okay?” Emily said, more grouchily than she meant. “I’m sorry. All I know is, we have to get them to the academy before their horns appear.”

“What about the d-flies?” asked Adriane.

“No go.” Kara shook her head. “Its just too far.”

Adriane sighed. “We’ll just have to chance using the fairy map.”

“You heard Twighead. Without their horns, they can’t open a portal,” Kara reminded them.

“Then we’re going to need as much unicorn power as we can get.” Adriane eyed Kara’s gem.

“Don’t look at me, I can’t even turn my nails pink without making my head green.” Kara bit her lip. “What if I have to give it back?” she wailed, clutching her jewel on its silver chain. “Maybe it was a mistake!”

“Kara, the jewel was meant for you,” Emily reassured her. “It attracts and amplifies magic like you do. It just has to be tuned a little differently than ours.”

“Absorbing all that fairy magic didn’t help, Rapunzel,” Adriane commented.

“It’s making it worse,” Kara conceded, looking at her friends.

“We won’t let anything happen to it, or you,” Emily pledged.

“We’re in this together, got it?” Adriane concluded.

“Okay,” Kara said meekly.

As they entered the barn, the horses nickered in their stalls, but otherwise it looked empty.

For a split second, Emily thought it had all been a bad dream.

“How does this taste?” Ozzie’s voice wafted across the barn.

“Yuck!”

“Phooie!”

Inside the feed room, a gaggle of unicorns huddled around a big bucket overflowing with a white, bubbly pudding-like concoction.

The ferret held a large ladle, offering a dripping sample to Clio and Spruce.

“Emily!!”

All the unicorns gathered around the mages.

Dreamer sniffed the bucket and shook his snout.

“No luck making unicorn food?” Adriane asked, trying not to laugh.

“I’d rather eat a stinkberry!” Riannan complained.

“Well, I think it’s delicious.” Ozzie tasted a mouthful and gagged.

Emily took a quick survey. “Ozzie, are all the unicorns here?”

Ozzie looked around. “Front and center,” he yelled, pushing Violet and Snowflake to the center of the barn. “Roll call. Just like we practiced.”

The unicorns scrambled around the ferret as he called out each of their names. “Riannan, Spruce, Violet, Clio…”

As each one answered “Here,” the ferret nodded his satisfaction.

“Daphne, Kalinda, Ruby, Snowflake, Lysander, Phoebe, Boodle, Harvard, Mailai, Beowulf, Dulcinea, Barnabus, Pierre, Sibby, Quincy, Cromwell, Elvis, Windmill, Zoey, Riccardo, Celia, Electra—”

There was no answer from Electra.

“Where’s Electra?” asked Adriane.

“Hey, where are Dante and Ralfie?” Spruce asked, checking the stalls.

“And Pollo and Calliope?” Violet looked around.

“Well, that’s only five missing,” Ozzie said, shrugging.

“Where’s Lyra?” Kara demanded, closing her eyes to contact her friend.

“Everyone stay here,” Emily told the unicorns. “We’ll find the others.”

The three mages and Dreamer ran to the barn door—and right into a startled Sierra.

“Sierra!” Emily exclaimed. “What are you doing here?”

“I work here,” the brown-haired girl said, trying to peer over the mages’ shoulders.

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