The Enchantress Returns (The Land of Stories)
Chris Colfer
Language: English
Pages: 544
ISBN: 0316201553
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
After decades of hiding, the evil Enchantress who cursed Sleeping Beauty is back with a vengeance.
animal?” Red said. “Absolutely not! Out of the question!” “It is a good option,” Jack said, defending Goldilocks’s idea. Red grunted and her nostrils flared. “Now you listen to me, giant chaser,” she said and pointed her finger at all of them. “So far I’ve built us a ship, lost half of my wardrobe, adopted a killer animal, snuck into the wicked stepmother’s estate, and supplied something nice to look at during this escapade. If you ask me, I’ve gone above and beyond what a normal queen would
whole lives. Alex wondered if her grandmother had devoted the last year solely to spreading fairy tales around the world. Or had something bad happened in the fairy-tale world? “Grandma, I don’t know what’s going on, but I could really use you right now,” Alex said to the book. “Everything is changing; everything is moving in directions I don’t like. This whole growing-up thing is a lot harder than I ever thought it would be. And not getting to see you makes it unbearable.” Alex took another
Three of the carriages were bright and golden, of the queen’s personal collection, but she was escorted to the fourth, a small, dull, and unassuming one. The soldiers surrounding this carriage weren’t dressed in armor like the others but were disguised as farmers and townspeople. The guards lifted the queen inside it. There was barely enough room inside for her to sit. “And my husband?” Sleeping Beauty asked as she put a hand out to prevent them from shutting the door behind her. “He’ll be all
realized she wasn’t going to be let in, and every time she came to this realization in the dream, she would wake up. It might not have been a pleasant dream, but it had felt so good to be back in a forest and to see her grandmother’s face again.… It was obvious to her what the dream represented, and had been since the first time she had dreamed it. However, Alex felt something different when she awoke this time. She couldn’t help but feel as if someone had been watching her while she was
asked. The jingle sounded again, only this time it was much louder. “Jack, didn’t you say the giant was dead?” Froggy asked, nervously adjusting his tie. “He is,” Jack said. “And he didn’t have any family to speak of.” Conner turned toward the direction they had just come from—and stood stock-still. “Hey—hey—hey, Jack?” Conner peeped. “Did the giant have any pets?” Everyone turned around and froze. Standing directly behind them was a cat the size of a house. “Mew,” the cat squeaked so