Still slightly pink in the face from her moment of total panic, Penny entered Aurora Hollow via her wardrobe door, her wand ready in one hand, her mirror held tightly in the other. Zoe was still too far away to hear, but Penny figured she had only a few minutes to set Katie’s admittedly clever plan into action. She peered into the mirror and saw Katie staring back at her.
“Ready?”
“Yeah,” Katie said, then nodded firmly as if to convince herself that she was telling the truth. “Go!”
Penny stuck her wand behind her ear for temporary safekeeping and removed Zoe’s wand from her waistband. She clutched it with the mirror in her left hand, retrieved her wand, then threw Zoe’s wand and the mirror into the air.
They rose together in an ungraceful arc, broke apart at the summit of their fli
