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CHAPTER 1.
I’M LOSING MAGIC !
It was a clear spring morning. She should have felt that all was well with the world, but Saffron shuffled along the rainwashed pavement with her head down. She did not notice the blossom scented breeze blowing away the last wisps of overnight cloud. The joyous singing of nesting birds failed to move her.
Any happiness she had felt in this peaceful country town was gone. What point was there in living here, where she could keep a horse, now that she was going to have to sell Magic?
Saffron cringed as she heard shouts and the sound of running feet from behind the schoolyard wall. I don't think I can face school, she thought. My whole life is about to be wrecked. Slinking through the back gate, she tried to avoid a group of girls huddled together chattering.
Gasps of admiration greeted the display of some small object in her friend Abigail’s hand.