I got sick today. Not too terribly serious this time around, but dammit! I’m sick again! I really wish that would stop happening because I was going to go into the office today, followed by dance class followed by write in. I had a whole plan and what happens? Cough turns into sick cough and I go, dammit, I’m contagious aren’t I? So, day home, everything all falls apart and BAH!
From Chapter 3
“It is weird that I’m almost excited for school tomorrow?” Adrianna asked. “I think it was actually weirder having the time off and not seeing everyone. And I’m getting used to being around other girls now instead of just my brothers.”
“Mmmm,” Alice muttered back to her, still trying to think of what to do. She thought there might be something in the book in the capture section about putting people to sleep as an early lesson in capturing. It was supposed to be the best way to get them immobile so that they could just manually catch them. But she wasn’t quite far enough to have actually gotten to the actual part where she might learn how to do that.
“And it sounds like everyone has had such a fun vacation too! I wonder if Father would let them all come over next year for New Years? You’d come too, of course, and that way maybe we could get to celebrate downstairs.”
Alice didn’t really want to try anything on Adrianna, though. She was a friend and it wasn’t nice to test potentially dangerous capture spells on friends. Especially if they didn’t actually work. Merlin had a bit of a habit of negating lessons a page later just in case to mess around with anyone who might be reading, so she was going to have to be quite careful about what she did and did not try. If she tried any of it at all.
“But then my parents probably wouldn’t want to be around. Kids taking over the house for a party? I don’t think they would just leave. All of us unsupervised wouldn’t really be quite right, don’t you think? But maybe there’s a way that we could still. Perhaps they wouldn’t mind chaperoning for one night. They’re really nice about letting us have friends over.”
But then again, if she was going through the trouble of reading a potentially magical book, then it might really be best to try out some of them on someone. Maybe Cat would come back and she could use him as a test subject, just so that she could have the satisfaction of wiping that grin off of his face. Oh, that would be a wonderful sight indeed.
Tags: looking glass, nanowrimo
