Ravenspell book 2: the Wizard of Ooze
“Keep thinking. Remember: often even the simplest creatures come up with extraordinary ideas.—THORNAgainst his will, the weasel whirled and grabbed his own tail and chomped down on it.Amber hid inside a hollow oak tree and watched in amazement at the thousands of animals that had gathered at the top of the clearing to answer the summons of the Great Wizardess of the Wood—her. These weren’t just any animals: these were the enemies of mousedom.She’d summoned them last night after granting Thorn hi...s brains. Amber just hoped that her powers were back at full.They’d better be, she thought, peering around at the terrifying creatures that had met in the woods.Her tail no longer felt heavy and lethargic. But she couldn’t be positive that she now had her magic powers back.The upper branches of the oak and alder trees above the clearing were filled with dozens of hawks, owls, eagles, herons, and crows—every one of them a mouse eater.The owls looked half asleep.In the lower branches, bobcats licked their paws innocently, while an old mountain lion squatted on one branch and let his tail dangle and flick, as if hoping that someone might play with it.Opossums hung upside down in the nearby bushes, playing at being dead, while a dozen masked raccoons and a few river otters watched the proceedings with apparent excitement.There were other mammals that Amber didn’t recognize—minks and martens and fishers.The ground was a slithering mass of snakes—garter snakes with their long red or yellow racing stripes, two-headed rubber snakes—common to Oregon—that had tails that looked like an extra head, pine snakes, rattlesnakes, green vine snakes, king snakes, and others.There were alligator lizards and bullfrogs, skunks and civet cats, house cats, dogs, and foxes—in both the silver and the red varieties.MoreLess
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