Emily Feather and the Secret Mirror

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stuck in. She fluttered her fingers cautiously and glanced down at her feet as she walked on. No bits of her hurt yet… Then she shrugged crossly. She was worrying herself for nothing. Katie was truly horrible, but being able to spot people’s weaknesses didn’t make her a witch. There was no magical excuse for any of this. Katie was only normally nasty. Emily and Rachel had to not let her get to them, that was all.
    And I won’t , Emily said to herself firmly, snatching back the hand that was fingering the torn spot on her scalp. I just need to work out how.
    â€œYou’ll be all right?” Rachel said to her anxiously as they came up to the house gate, where Robin was waiting, hopping from foot to foot impatiently.
    â€œFine,” Emily gave her a tiny smile.
    Rachel nodded. She looked very determined, though still a bit white around the mouth. “We won’t let her keep doing this sort of stuff, I promise.”
    â€œCome on.” Robin glared at Emily, and she shifted her school bag on her shoulder uneasily. He could tell she was hiding something, and he wanted to know.
    â€œBye!” she called to Rachel, and hurried up the path, hunting for her key, with Robin trotting behind her. The mermaid door knocker on the front door flicked its tail, and then the brassy little face twisted and peered down at her curiously. Maybe it wasn’t only Robin who could sense what had been happening. Her parents had strengthened the door spells after Emily accidentally blundered through, so she supposed it was like an extra-sensitive burglar alarm now. The whole house was guarding her. Emily wasn’t quite sure how she felt about that.
    â€œSsshhh!” Robin hissed at her, shutting the front door very quietly.
    â€œWhat?” Emily blinked at him, surprised, and he pulled her up the stairs after him. He stopped when they were round the turn in the stairs, and sat down, staring at her determinedly.
    â€œWhat happened?”
    â€œI don’t know what you mean,” Emily murmured, but she glanced away from him. His dark blue eyes were suddenly so water-like that they seemed to swirl and ripple, and she would have told him anything if she had looked at him much longer.
    â€œYou shouldn’t be able to do that,” Robin said crossly. “I was trying to spell you, and you broke away! You’ve lived with us for too long, that’s what it is. You’re too used to magic.”
    â€œReally?” Emily asked him, feeling rather pleased. When she’d first begun to see the odd things in the house, she’d wondered if maybe she had some strange sort of powers. It had been a terrible disappointment when she found out that actually, she was the only one of them who didn’t. So it was good to know that at least the little scrap of magic that had grown inside her was useful for something .
    â€œReally. It must be because you’ve been around me and Lark and Lory so much. You’ve got an immunity. Because when I looked at you like that you should have been completely hypnotized, and told me exactly what’s been going on !”
    Emily sighed, and decided that Robin wasn’t going to leave her alone. She’d have to tell him – after all, if she didn’t, he’d just go and find out about it from someone at school.
    â€œKatie Meadows was teasing me, that’s all. You know what she’s like.”
    Robin blinked thoughtfully. “Oh. That girl who looks a bit like a slug?”
    â€œDoes she?” Emily frowned. “I don’t think so.”
    â€œTo me she does. She’s slimy. What did she do?”
    Emily was silent for two seconds too long. “She was just mean,” she said unconvincingly.
    â€œAnd?” Robin hugged her, and then he whispered sweetly in her ear, much more sweetly than he ever usually spoke to her. “I can make you tell me, you know.”
    â€œOh, all right!” Emily snapped.

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