Merrin felt disappointed in his scent bottle. Just to make sure it really did smell so bad, he put the bottle right up to his left nostril and sniffed hard – and the jinnee was sucked up his nose. It was not a good moment for either of them.

Jenna liked her own company and she loved wandering around the Palace, especially at night when candles cast great shadows across the corridors.

Silas Heap was eloping with Marcia Overstrand.

Petroc Trelawney.

What would Cassi say?” Dandra muttered to herself. “Letting the girl stay up so late?” She sighed. The honest answer was that Cassi, a free spirit, would have been perfectly happy about it.

Shouting something didn’t make it any more possible.

It gave Boy 412 the impression that Aunt Zelda had walked into a large patchwork tent and had just, that very minute, poked her head out of the top to see what was going on.

You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel,” Terry Tarsal rudley broke into Marcia’s spinning thoughts.

Marcia was aghast. “He has shoes like mine? Well, that does it, we’ll have to get rid of him.” She smiled at Tod. “Only one of us can wear these shoes. And that is me.

A little belief in something always helps.