A little while ago, Suzanne requested an excerpt from my book, The Dumari Chronicles: Year One. I must apologize, Suzanne, for not getting around to this sooner. But between preparing for Christmas, and fighting this stupid cold (which I am still not rid of completely), it simply slipped my mind. Well, you know what they say: better late than later still — or something like that…
THE DUMARI CHRONICLES: YEAR ONE
from Chapter Five: Mrs. Lewis’ Surprise
“I wonder….” Brody said, wiping the water off of his mouth with the back of his hand. He looked up at the skylights placed high in the ceiling of their prison.“What ya gonna do, Superman?” Moira laughed at him. “Leap right out of one of them?”He stood up. “Maybe.” There was a determined glint in his eyes as he stepped over to stand directly beneath one of the windows. He turned his head this way and that, peering through the wooden rafters at the dirty glass.
“And how do you figure on reaching it, genius?” Moira continued to sneer.
“Yeah, how?” Even Braidy sounded sceptical.
“ARE WE MAGICALS OR NOT?!” he spun around to face them. “There’s gotta be a way to reach that window! We’ve just gotta figure it out!”
“You’ve gotta figure it out!” Moira stated. “I don’t do magic, remember?”
“Then you can stay here by yourself,” Braidy spat at her, standing, “I’m going to try to help Brody!”
The twins stood below the skylight, their gazes fixed on the patch of sky above them. Brody muttered under his breath.
“We can’t bring it down to us,” Moira heard him say softly, “so we’ve got to get up to it somehow.” Reaching into her backpack, she pulled out a bottle of styling gel, squirted a little into the palm of her hand, and ran it over the top of her head, making the spikes stand up stiffer than before.
“Why don’t you just fly up there?” she jeered as she wiped her hands on her shorts. To her surprise, Brody’s eyes suddenly lit up at her comment.
“That’s it!” Brody exclaimed.
So there you go…hope it peaks your interest
