The Unfairest of Them All by Shannon Hale

Author:Shannon Hale
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Toys, Dolls, Puppets, Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2014-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

Check it, D

you’re locked in a wee

sea of me

nowhere to go

so fade your glow

and head below

lest I show

my sweet street beat

that I call delete

The faces faded.

“Whew! That nearly poached us, but I’m in,” said Humphrey.

“What was that?” Raven asked.

“A mirror daemon,” Dexter said. “Sometimes the network locks are there to keep them in, not just to keep us out. But, dude, you killed that.”

Dexter and Humphrey bumped fists, complete with explosion.

“I must have inadvertently copied one to my local mirror when I doppelganged the security system,” said Humphrey. “Let me set up a secure path out of the school’s fire-thrall protections from a single terminal, and I’ll shunt control to a mirror in your dorm room. How are your rhyming skills?”

“Fairest,” said Apple.

“Er, rarest,” said Raven.

Dexter laughed. “The key is to be threatening and rhyme fast—like you’re having a rap battle with the daemon. I’m just okay at it, but Humphrey is the king.”

Humphrey shrugged away the compliment but glanced at Apple as if to make sure she’d heard.

“Raven, you should totally lay down some tracks in Humphrey’s studio,” said Dexter. “Raven’s voice is amazing.”

“No, it’s okay,” said Raven.

“You’re a singer? Girl, that is poison! I’m a music aficionado myself. Here…” Humphrey tapped on his MirrorPhone. Both of the girls’ phones buzzed. “I sent you one of my demo tracks.”

“Oh,” said Raven. “Thanks?”

“Not to groove to,” he said, looking shyly down at his foot. “Unless you, I don’t know, want to. But the track I sent is a warding beat. You play it as a loop near the mirror and it’ll discourage the daemons.”

“That is fairy enchanting,” Apple said. “Raven, did I tell you that Humphrey was a talented songsmith?”

She hadn’t.

“I think you mentioned it,” Raven said. “I mean, that thing you did with the daemon just now could be a song.”

“Nah,” Humphrey said, cheeks coloring. “The good stuff comes from the soul.”

Raven started to edge back to the door. She had a suspicion this conversation was going to turn awkward.

“I have another beat I wrote, Apple,” Humphrey said. “It’s kind of about you guys.”

Uh-oh, Raven thought, here comes the awkward.

“It’s wicked cool,” said Dexter.

“I’d love to hear it,” Apple said.

Humphrey turned his crown backward, picked up his microphone, and started a beat from his mirrors.

“Is this a sitting-down thing?” Raven whispered to Apple as Humphrey began to rap.

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