CHAPTER THREE The Test Problem *MAGELLAN*
EVER SINCE HE and Saffy had gotten home from the Magenta Kingdom, Magellan was spending a lot of time waiting. He’d waited through King Arun’s gentle scold about the Royal Aeronautical Academy disaster. And Queen Mitali’s encouragement to pay better attention in class.
Saffy hadn’t said much since they’d gotten home. Magellan was waiting for her to decide to tell him what the problem was, or to notice they were finally out of coal. Any day now, another story about the Saffron dragon problem would show up in the Seven Kingdoms Proclamation.
This morning, in the upstairs arcade that the Saffron family used as a school, Magellan was waiting out a math test. It was the only way. After he’d stared it down, it would be too late to begin it. He would b
