Of course, understanding what Rakshasas was saying was easy when John was able to enter the wolf’s body as a spirit, but the boy djinn could hardly do that while he was flying the carpet. This made navigation difficult as only Rakshasas knew how to get to Shamba-la in Tibet. So John chalked a dra...
“Disaster,” he muttered. “What a disaster.” For once Groanin did not overstate the matter. But he wasn’t talking about the news on television, although he might easily have been: Another volcano — Bjarnarey, on the Vestmannaeyjar Islands, near Iceland — had become active. He was talking about eve...
He’d hoped to prompt the old Venetian explorer’s disappearance by taking a cloth and rubbing out the Chinese magic square that had brought him into being, but Marco Polo showed no sign of taking this strong hint, and it was clear that Sister Cristina must return from her journey downstairs at any...
He wondered if Nimrod’s disappearance was self-inflicted or if there was some other force involved. Nimrod wasn’t the type of uncle who disappeared without telling anyone. Almost immediately, John heard the whistling again and this time he was careful not to answer it with some whistling of his o...