LEGENDARY (CARAVAL #2) BY STEPHANIE GARBER EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: STEPHANIE GARBER
- Language: English
- Genre: Fantasy Romance Young Adult Fiction
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SEVEN YEARS AGO
While some rooms on the estate had monsters hiding beneath the beds,
Tella swore her mother’s suite concealed enchantment. Hints of emerald
light dusted the air as if fairies came to play whenever her mother left. The
room smelled of flowers plucked from secret gardens, and even when there
wasn’t a breeze, the sheer curtains billowed around the magnificent canopy
bed. Above, a citrine chandelier greeted Tella with the musical sounds of
kissing glass, making it easy for her to imagine the suite was a bewitched
portal to another world.
Tella’s tiny feet made no sound as she tiptoed across thick ivory carpets
to her mother’s dresser. Quickly, she stole a look over her shoulder and then
snatched her mother’s jewelry box. Slick and heavy in Tella’s hands, the
box was made of mother-of-pearl and covered in spiderwebbed gold
filigree; Tella liked to pretend it was also charmed, for even when her
fingers were dirty, they fortunately never left prints.
Tella’s mother didn’t mind if her daughters played with her dresses or
tried on her fancy slippers, but she’d asked them not to touch this box,
which only made it more irresistible to Tella.
Scarlett could spend her afternoons daydreaming about traveling shows
like Caraval, but Tella liked to have real adventures.
Today she pretended a wicked queen was holding a young elfin prince
captive, and to save him, she needed to steal her mother’s opal ring, Tella’s
favorite piece of jewelry. The milky stone was raw and rough, shaped like a
starburst, with sharp tips that sometimes pricked her fingers. But when Tella
held the opal up toward the light, the stone sparked, covering the room in
embers of luminescent cherry, gold, and lavender that hinted at magic
curses and rebel pixie dust.
Sadly, the brassy band was too large for Tella’s finger, though every time
she opened the box, she still slipped it on in case she’d grown. But this day,
right as Tella slid on the ring, she noticed something else.
The chandelier above her stilled as if it, too, had been caught by surprise.
Tella knew every item in her mother’s jewelry case by heart: a carefully
folded velvet ribbon edged in gold, bloodred scarlet earrings, a tarnished
silver bottle that her mother claimed held angel tears, an ivory locket that
wouldn’t open, a jet wristlet that looked as if it belonged on the arm of a
witch rather than her mother’s elegant wrist.
The only item Tella never touched was the dirty-gray sachet, which
smelled of moldy leaves and charnel-sweet death. It keeps the goblins away,
her mother once teased. It kept Tella away as well.
But today, the ugly little purse flickered, drawing Tella toward it. One
moment it looked like a bundle of rot and smelled of decay. A blink later, in
its place rested a gleaming deck of cards, tied with a delicate satin ribbon.
Then, in a flash, it was back to the nasty pouch before it transfigured into
the cards again.
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