It was a wonderful Saturday, like any weekend day when you can do what you want. Johnny and Elizabeth enjoyed the day without classes and spent time in the girl's room. She fed her guardian, and the boy sat on a chair holding her dairy, busy studying that object.
“If you look in the diary now, can you read what happened that night?”
Elizabeth approved with a slight nod.
“Can I read what is written in the diary? Doesn’t it bother you?”
“No,” the girl smiled. “You can read my diary for now.”
The boy opened the diary, looked at it and became sad like a cat that is outside and the rain started.
“There isn’t anything written in it. I hope you didn't fool me.”
The girl got scared. She left the hawk alone and ran quickly to the boy who looked at her in a way too serious to be a joke. She took the magic dairy in her hand, looked in it, and took a deep breath.<
The girl beckoned to Johnny to go to her room, even if the boy didn't quite agree with that. He was eager to investigate what Prince Soimesti was going to do.When he was finally pushed into Elizabeth's room, he reacted, very upset:“I say let’s follow Alexander to see what he intends!”"That's what we do," Elizabeth told him, leaving the door open and looking at that curtain.Johnny also got nearer the door and looked in the direction where the boy hid.The other students began to part, most to their rooms, sad, grumpy, and not cheerful at all.“Do you know what an ogre is?”“Of course I do,” the boy burst intrigued by the fact that the girl questioned his knowledge. “He is one of the most horrible creatures. It’s said it’s the creation of a group of strong witches who once lived in the mountains of Transylvania, the Carpathians. Those witches joined their evil forces
The children saw the ogre trying to cook Alexander. This is probably why Abigail screamed. The boy was tied to a tree trunk that was sat on two other large trunks lying on the ground.From time to time the ogre turned Alexander around, probably to cook him all over. The fire was controlled by the ogre, blowing hard in the hot ember beneath the boy, making the fire more and more powerful.Still, to his luck, when the ogre was busy with something else, Alexander used the magic wand he had with him to put out the fire.Even so, it was clear the boy felt very hot there, because he kept sweating. If you saw him, you could swear sweat flowing from him put out the fire, not the spells cast with his wand.Abigail was locked in a cage. Probably ... his next meal, the kids thought. So there was nothing left for them to do but intervene."Go and untie Alexander," whispered Elizabeth to Johnny.The boy looked at her. He didn’t feel able to do it,
Alexander was very anxious. He walked around Professor Knudlac's office.“Alexander, you spotted your honour. How will you become the best now?” the boy said aloud.Elizabeth and Johnny were with him in Professor Knudlac's office, sitting on the chair saying nothing. Johnny looked at Alexander’s squirming. Everything the latter did, his chaotic walk here and there, his words said loudly, and his professor-like reproaches for the worst mistakes, made Johnny increasingly scared.Elizabeth was happy because Abigail was healthy. She looked at the many display cases with splendid cups won over the centuries by students of Elmbridge School of Magic. The shelves were full of cups of all sizes and all kinds. Gold pyramids, sapphire and red diamond igloo, tower-shaped, silver, larger or smaller, all stood imposing there, proudly presenting, with labels written in gold, how hard they were obtained.Elizabeth managed to see behind Knudlac's desk a
Elizabeth, Johnny and Alexander were in the library. Today there were exactly two weeks since they spent their time in the library reading, apart from the time when they had lunch and rested, of course. It was very hard for them during these two weeks, as if they had to wait for a human life time. During all this time, apart from a few talks with other colleagues or professors, the three only talked to each other or to the professors Knudlac and Harmony, who often came to discuss with them what they read."These Ice Golems ... how do they know what to do?" Elizabeth asked Johnny.But the boy just shrugged."Magic ... I think," the boy answered.Alexander didn't sit next to them. He read alone without asking questions. But from time to time, he responded to the others, to show them how well prepared and educated he was. When did he come up with answers? Well, whenever the other two had such questions, such as those about the Ice Golems."These golems belong t
The girl opened the parchment. She at Mr. Knudlac a little surprised."It's the same text," she told him so resignedly. "It means that I too will have Domandi Aqua..."Professor Knudlac smiled again."Dear Elizabeth, until you read the same text of your parchment, I want to tell you something more. You've probably noticed that apart from the spells we can learn in school, such as Procidat Deceptionem, Inpulsa or Evanescet, magic that anyone who studies hard our teachings can grasp, maybe even a sceptic, there are other magic tricks too ... a little more special."Mr. Knudlac swiftly wagged his wand over his left arm. Lots of tattoos began to appear and shine when the wand was near them ... and just as quickly they disappeared.But even so, the children managed to keep in mind the image of many of Professor Knudlac's tattoos.His arm was full of tattoos, of various sizes and shapes, in various hypostases, such as that in which some archers or spearmen ki
All the students sat in front of the richly laden tables and had a quiet lunch in the great hall of Elmbridge School of Magic.The tables were full of all kinds of goodies, all kinds of fruits from all over the world such as bananas, grapes, mango, pineapples or purple oranges, but also rare fruits that sceptics wouldn’t have the courage to try. Such as wild strawberries, as tiny as a bead and sour like pickled cucumber and sweet blackberries hotter than any known pepper, found only in the depths of the Ancient Forest. And of course, in Rujnoiu’s shop ...Some of the fruits were fresh, other were candied, caramelized and other were found in all sorts of flans and cakes. There were also white truffles, Macadamia nuts, saffron and many others unknown to most children sitting at that table ... they only knew they were edible.On all tables, there were all kinds of dishes made from various vegetables and all kinds of meat. Spicy foods found in Asian area
Alexander got that of all, the white wizard saw him as an important competitor, which made him walk even prouder on that ice that was everywhere. As if he could be prouder than he usually is. He should be careful with that ice, not to let his pride slip out there, Johnny thought.As for Elizabeth, she was more excited than anyone at everything she saw. A temple, a castle or whatever this building was, made of frozen water. A place where wizards could live without any problem. And where even sceptics could live without any problem.Near Nakutsck's ice throne were two huge bears. Magic guardians, as white as the snow outside and very calm, as if they were Labrador puppies. Still, they were real, big bears.On the walls, the usual paintings depicted the lives of the greatest wizards who lived in this temple. They were all as white as Nakutsck. All of them managed to easily control the power of ice, blizzard and snowstorms.Johnny was just as excited as Eliza
Alexander felt obliged to respond to the girl, to such a "clear" explanation of Johnny’s.“You brainy, some say elves aren’t from Earth. Some say they came from other realms, in flying ships thousands of years ago. There are creatures that can live longer than we do, due to their sacred tree forests.”“Really? How long can they live?” “Well ... over a hundred years. Almost two I think.”Alexander stopped explaining because he noticed one of the elf girls looked at them.An elf girl with hair like pure gold sat near him. Even though there was some distance between them, Alexander couldn’t help but feel the strong smell of acacia, lily-of-the-valley and linden sprouting from her wonderful hair.Prince Soimesti glared at the elf girls who were to compete with them.“My name’s Alexander Soimesti,” he addressed the elf girl who filled the air with the powerful f