Magic Below

Magic Below book cover — Magic Below by Laura J Burns cover illustration by Liam Peters Capstone Young Readers a Capstone Imprint

Magic Below — page 1 — 1 Darkness That’s all there was Darkness so profound that he couldn’t see his hand an inch from his face He might be in a tiny box or in a huge cavern There was no way to tell His breath was loud in his ears and his heart pounded so hard that it actually hurt I have to calm down Brink Springer thought My fear is making me imagine things It can’t really be this dark I have to let my eyes adjust He stared into the blackness trying to slow his heartbeat staying focused on taking deep breaths It was still dark Brink closed his eyes then opened them again Still dark Pitch-black Maybe it’s an illusion he thought Brink’s

Magic Below — page 2 — magical talent was making illusions and he’d gotten pretty good at it during the past week as he traveled through the Land of Oz He’d even begun to think that he could see through other people’s illusions too But if this was one he couldn’t tell If not an illusion then what he wondered No regular night could be like this completely without light Normally there were stars and the moon but not tonight It was simply never this black It never had been in Brink’s sixteen years of life Somewhere there had to be a torch or a candle Somewhere a tiny bit of light had to reach him if everything was normal But nothing had been normal since he had reached Glinda the Good’s Palace The golden bridge across the raging river had looked broken to his friends but Brink could see it He’d run over the delicate span to the gates of the famous sorceress’s castle hoping to prove to his friends that the broken

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