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The Magic City

Free · 1 chapter · 1 scene · Young Readers
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You are Philip, left at the Grange with Lucy after Helen, who raised you, starts a life of her own. Resentment turns into a city built from books, chessmen, and candlesticks, until the nursery vanishes and the toys become full-sized streets under a real moon. Guards arrest you as a trespasser, and Lucy, who followed you, is judged beside you. A wooden figure from her toy ark begs you both to escape before dawn, though he will not say whether you are meant to save this city or destroy it.

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Chapters

  1. Deliverer or DestroyerThe Grange and the Living City

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