Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)

by T.J. Klune

Lucy had thought the same thing. And yet, as a boy of seven years of age, he was making a different decision. He chose joy. He chose happiness. He chose others above himself, even knowing he had the power to do whatever he wished. Why could a child do what adults could not?

“Before we do,” Lucy said, “I mustache you a question. Would you like a cup of tea?”

Lucy tilted his head back to look up at Linus. “I didn’t make that up! It’s in the Bible. Like, for a book about God and trying not to sin, there is a lot of stuff in there that makes me look like an angel. For example! Lot’s daughter wanted to have a kid of her own, so she got her father drunk and—” Linus covered Lucy’s mouth with his hand as the strangers around them snorted in laughter. “I think that’s quite enough. I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but we might need to consider removing all Bibles from the island. Too many things in its pages children should not have access to.” Lucy’s eyes filled with red as he pulled his head away. “We could have a good old-fashioned book burning.”

Only Lucy disappeared into thin air, the momentum spinning her around, causing her to strike the man next to her in the stomach. Lucy reappeared next to Arthur. “Holy crap,” he breathed. “I can teleport?” His arms went up and over his head as he jumped up and down.

It is within my rights as Queen of Marsyas to order your head removed from your body.” “Hurray! Then we can find out if she has rabies!” Lucy cried.

“What are we going to do?” Phee asked as Zoe took her hand. “Something I should have done a long time ago,” Zoe said. “We’re going to change our world.”

“I get to be a knight and a queen?” Lucy exclaimed. “It’s not even my birt!”