The next day, Penny found herself alone in the hollow, Katie still grounded and banned, Zoe stuck at home watching her sickly grandmother and, they hoped, getting some information about the mystery girl. Unable to do anything with the new wands until the required time in the creek had passed and unwilling to restart lessons without the others, Penny decided to try something she’d wondered about for a long time.
She tapped the book with the tip of her wand, then set the wand aside as the book sprang open in her lap. She thumbed through it until the first blank page presented itself, then wrote.
Will you tell me how to fly?
She retrieved her wand while the book shuffled its pages, and ran the tip of it over the page of indecipherable text that presented itself.
She read the translation
