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Chapter 1: The Emissary (Part 1)
“Watch this!” Trix leapt off the
branch and flew above the forest floor.
The sparrows would not have
called it flying. Squirrels, on the other hand, knew exactly what he meant.
Trix stretched out a hand and caught the vine he’d been aiming for. He wrapped
his elbow around it and prayed it was sturdy enough to catch his weight.
It was.
With a holler, Trix let the vine
carry him into a high arc. He turned a quick somersault in the air, but instead
of straightening out for a clean dive, he kept his body pulled into as tight a
ball as he could manage. Lizinia’s shrieks of joy as he hit the water made him
smile.
Once below the dappled surface
he stretched out in the water, kicking toward shore. A school of minnows
scurried through his hair and a medium-sized trout brushed silkily against his
belly. This inlet was warm compared to the cool of the night. The last time
he’d been swimming he hadn’t needed to breathe air. But that had been a wish,
granted and run its course.
Lizinia jumped up and down as he
resurfaced. Her gleeful clapping clanked like an enthusiastic cowbell as her
gilded palms met again and again.
“Thank you, thank you,” he said
with great condescension. “That is, without doubt, the largest splash I have
ever made in my life.” Thanks to Papa Gatto’s enchantment, he now possessed the
taller, heavier body of a young human man and not the lithe scrawniness of a
fey boy the same age.
“My turn!” cried the golden
girl.
“You don’t think the water
will—?” But it was too late. Lizinia had already leapt from her spot on the
bank, clothes and all. There was little grace to her entrance, but her splash
was epic. Trix gave a proud shriek of his own, blinking salty droplets out of
his eyes as his body bobbed up and down in her wake.
He commended himself on
discovering this choice spot. He’d just been thinking that they needed a
respite after their long day of walking eastward, away from Rose Abbey, along
the Impossible Ocean’s edge to the legendary home of the King of Eagles. As if
he’d been granted another wish, that respite had appeared. Thanks to the
magical seawater his angry sister had conjured, what had once been a sheer
cliff face now made a magnificently deep swimming hole.
A hole from which Lizinia had
still not risen.
A hole into which that girl,
entirely covered in gold, had just jumped.
Most people with common sense
would have remembered that gold did not float. Trix Woodcutter rarely qualified
as “most people.”
“Trixie, you are a prize idiot,”
he said to himself, because neither Peter nor Saturday were there to say it for
him. He took a deep breath and dove hard.
The trout, sensing his distress,
joined him. The fish swam at his sides, so that he did not have to worry about
injuring any of them with his furious kicking. The further they descended, the
darker the water became. Trix was wondering how he might find his companion
without sight when a bright light burst out from the crescent-shaped bone that
hung from a thong around his neck: Wisdom’s tooth. A tiny glint reflected back
from the shadows. Trix kicked faster in that direction.
Where some might have panicked
at such a predicament, Lizinia had simply begun climbing the cliff face. This
was one of the things Trix loved most about Lizinia: she was just as happy an
adventurer as he.
(Books of Arriland #6)
by Alethea Kontis
YA Fantasy
Paperback & ebook, 210 Pages
March 28th 2016
March 28th 2016
Join Trix Woodcutter on an epic new animal-filled adventure!
Fey magic and animal magic: that troublemaking imp Trix Woodcutter has both, if not the ability to use them to their full potential. While traveling with his companion—the golden girl Lizinia—to see the King of Eagles, Trix is sent a vision of the Faerie Queen, who is in desperate need of his help. An evil sorceress has stormed Faerie and trapped all the fey magic under the Hill, leaving the Faerie Queen powerless! Trix’s talent for communicating with animals is desperately needed…but before he braves the wild world of Faerie he must arm himself, with nothing less than the bow and arrows of a god.
With the help of his gilded companion, her ghost-cat godfather, a blind brownie and a sister or two, the Boy Who Talks to Animals must befriend a mischievous leprechaun, best a wolf, and journey into the depths of Faerie to restore order and free the fey magic before the imbalance destroys the world.
Trix and the Faerie Queen is second in The Trix Adventures and sixth in the Books of Arilland.
Fans of the Woodcutter Sisters: Desperate to know what happened to Saturday and Peregrine after they found Trix at the end of HERO? Here’s your chance!
Alethea Kontis is a princess, author, fairy godmother, and geek. Her bestselling Books of Arilland fairytale series won two Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Awards (Enchanted and Tales of Arilland), and was twice nominated for the Andre Norton Award. Alethea also penned the AlphaOops picture books, The Wonderland Alphabet, Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome, Beauty & Dynamite, The Dark-Hunter Companion (w/Sherrilyn Kenyon), and a myriad of poems, essays, and short stories. Princess Alethea lives and writes on the Space Coast of Florida with her teddy bear, Charlie. You can find her on her YouTube channel, all the social media, and at www.aletheakontis.com.
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