This chapter begins with the Murray twins being bored, as they usually are. They have no real form of education other than what they learn by experience.
This actually made me think. None of the children, save Marco, had any certifiable intellectual stimulus. So maybe Celia and Poppet (considering how much Widget reads, I'm sure he has some mathematical grasp), despite their magic ability, by the end of the book (at which point they're both over 21), would likely be unable to solve this:
log1000^2
(It's 6)
I'm gonna choose not to remember that.
Aaaaaannyway, they're sitting against a tree, drinking cider and contemplating what to do.
Poppet mentions something relating to the future and the color red, and then tells Widget they're going to have company, but that she doesn't know who it is.
(It's Bailey). She describes the red as spilled on the ground like paint.
Oh dear. I've just remembered something quite unpleasant. Must...not...spoil.
Widget tells Poppet a story that has been Kindle highlighted 1656 times. I'm not going to quote it, but the gist is: Magic and secrets and wizard tells pretty girl magic secret and girl tricks wizard and turns wizard into tree.
He magics their cider so it stays hot and she levitates her cup back to herself in a sort of passive-aggressive competition.
This chapter ends with them laughing. I wish I was bitter enough to cynic this chapter, but they're just children. Magical prophet children.
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