Stealing Magic by Marianne Malone

Author:Marianne Malone [Malone, Marianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780375898723
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2012-01-24T08:00:00+00:00

“But the wings are kind of beautiful,” Ruthie commented, wondering if one of them was the fly she had freed last time.

Now on the ledge, Jack suggested they go to Thomas’ room first. They hustled along the narrow path, stopping at A1 and the entrance to the side room, the one with the two low beds.

“Look around—do you see the ship anywhere?” Jack asked.

There weren’t many possible places for it to be, but they checked thoroughly, including under the beds and in a small chest. Then they peered around the corner into the main room. The ship was not visible; when they had the chance, they entered the room and opened the doors of the cabinet. It was empty. They checked behind the high-back bench and then exited into the entryway that led to the outdoors—and the seventeenth century. It wasn’t in this room either. Ruthie felt tempted to go out looking for Thomas. But then she noticed something.

“Jack, look.” She was standing at the door, looking out its window. “It’s not alive anymore.” Jack joined her. They saw a painted diorama, not the dusty street where they’d been chased by a witch-hunting mob. They looked up and even saw a lightbulb creating the daylight. “It’s like the Japanese garden.”

“I wonder why.” They stared at the lifeless diorama. “Maybe the square isn’t bringing it to life?” Jack theorized.

“I don’t know. It worked in the Paris room—if it was the metal square making that happen.” She looked around, breathing the stuffy air. “I think it’s something else. Remember when we read in the archives what Mrs. Thorne said about objects animating the rooms? And remember my dad told us animating can mean ‘bringing things to life’?”

“The Mayflower,” Jack said, understanding what she meant.

“Exactly. Maybe the really old objects—like the Mayflower and Sophie’s journal—are what make these rooms time portals. It must be! Without the Mayflower in the room, the outside isn’t alive.”

“And Mrs. Thorne must have known.”

“Or at least one of her craftsmen,” Ruthie suggested.

“I’ll add that to the rules list: that something really old in the rooms animates the dioramas,” Jack noted.

“I wonder where the ship is.” Ruthie scanned the room.

“It’s not here,” Jack declared. “That’s for sure.”

“And without the Mayflower in the room,” Ruthie observed, “it’s like an entire world’s been stolen.”

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