Girl Flees Man on Bridge

Girl Flees Man on Bridge

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  • Prompt: Now everyone is screaming and running around. The fog extends around the grounds, completely circling the school. Most run back inside, as far from the fog as they can get. Raven takes out her MirrorPhone and tries to call her dad in his castle in a nearby kingdom. Nothing. No signal. “I can’t reach my mom, either,” says Apple. “It won’t even dial.” “Apple!” says Briar Beauty, 51 running toward her friend. She’s wearing pink pajamas and fluffy bunny slippers, and her long brown hair is in braids. Her cheeks, normally several shades darker than Apple’s, are flushed pink from worry. “It’s not just the MirrorPhones that aren’t working. I checked the wishing well, too, and it’s... it’s empty. No water, just fog down in its depths. And when I dropped a pebble into it, I never heard it hit bottom. It’s like we’re trapped.”52 51 Daughter of Sleeping Beauty, Apple’s BFFA, and one seriously stylish chick. 52 In Ever After, wishing wells are, like, the second-most-common form of transportation, right after walking and right before unicorn-breath-powered hybrid carriages. “Briar, the faculty is gone and Maddie is missing. Can you get everyone back to their rooms and find me if there’s any word?” Briar nods and runs off, her bunny slippers squeaking cheerfully with each step, as if they don’t know that Ever After High is having the worst crisis in forever after. Which they probably don’t. Since they’re just fluffy footwear. But earlier in this chapter, a decorative troll statue spoke, so you just never know. Anyway, Raven speed-dials Maddie’s dad, the Mad Hatter. He lives just across the bridge from Ever After High, in the Village of Book End, but even that call won’t go through. “Is Book End gone?” Apple squints in that direction, but the fog is so thick it’s impossible to tell. They run toward the bridge. The wall of fog crosses over it, but as they get closer, they see that the bridge itself has been sliced clean in half.53 53 Can you imagine if you woke up and your house was suddenly cut off from the rest of the world? I would completely flip out! “Apple,” says Raven, “what if Maddie was trying to go home to her dad when...?” Apple grabs Raven’s hand and squeezes. “Maddie!” Raven yells into the night, magically projecting her voice louder. “Maddie, if you can hear me, answer please!” No answer. “Maddie, this is Apple!” says Apple. “Right now I’m standing on my head and making a pot of noodles with my feet while oinking like a pig!” No answer. “Well, that settles it,” says Apple. “If she didn’t come running to see me stand on my head and make noodles with my feet while oinking, then she’s nowhere nearby. But surely she’s not down... down there, wherever that fog is coming from.” Raven is whispering under her breath and holding a spark of blue light in her hands. She rolls it like a ball of clay, and with the final words “Go find Maddie!” she lets go of the blue light. It zips up into the air, then zaps back and forth, inside the school, under the nose of a dazed-looking ogre, over Daring Charming so fast it leaves his perfectly coiffed hair in a rat’s nest, and back to Raven. The ball of light settles into her hand with a sad little sigh, flattens, and disappears. “Maddie isn’t at Ever After High,” says Raven. “Then where is she?” “Um, I know we’re new here,” says
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