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“That’s only one box,” I said. “There’s no way to know what’s in the others.”
Silas forged ahead. “This way.”
I hurried after him. Why did he seem so sure of what we should do next? He couldn’t know that the amulet wasn’t in one of these boxes. I glared at the back of his head. “Did you see something? Hear something?”
He glanced back at me, put a finger to his lips, and crept forward more slowly than before.
What did he see?I pressed my lips together hard and tried to peer around Silas’s big head. He was too tall. The path was too narrow. Between his oversized coat and his oversized shoulders, it was impossible to see anything.
Until I spotted the fluffy white fleece of an oversized sheep.
We stepped outside of the open back of the barn into a patchy field of yellowed grass. A particularly blinding ray of sunlightbroke through the dreary sky and cast the fluffy monstrosity in an otherworldly glow.
“Cloud cow.” Fernando whispered and pointed.
“Bigcloud cow,” I whispered back.
The sheep was nearly as large as the barn itself. Its flock pressed in around its legs, grazing upon the grass, seemingly unconcerned by the size of their flockmate.
When I was certain no one was here but the sheep, I turned to Silas and spoke at a regular volume. “Sheep aren’t afraid of people. There’s no need to be quiet. Plus,we found a giant sheep.Key word here—giant. I was right. Noah has the amulet.”
“Congratulations,” Silas said, his expression frozen.
“Clearly we need to reduce the size of it so it doesn’t rampage.”
“Sheep don’t rampage,” Silas said. “They eat.”
“Think of how much that sheep will eat,” I said. “The rolling green hills will soon be bald.”
The mega sheep bent its neck down and bit the trunk of a large tree. With the flick of its head, the sheep pulled the tree from the ground, roots and all. The sheep below baaed. Those closest fell over as the roots knocked them back. All of them mindlessly waited for whatever would happen to them next.
A branch broke free from the tree and fell down toward the herd.
“Fernando!” I called. “Catch.”
He rolled across the ground, dove through the air, and caught the branch just before it could land on an innocent cloud cow’s head.
I dug through my bag and said to Silas, “Still think sheep can’t rampage?”
“Yes.”
I pulled out my last shrinking scroll, closed my eyes, and cast my intention at the sheep.Be small.
I opened my eyes. The scroll caught flame and turned to ash in my palm, but the sheep did not shrink. It slowly turned its head in our direction, and it roared a world-shakingbaaaaaaa.
My hair blew back. Wind pulled against my cheeks. My feet slipped on the dirt.
Silas reached his hands up into the air as the wind blew him, too.
The air stilled as the giant sheep quieted. And a blue ball landed right in Silas’s hands.
I narrowed my eyes. “How’d you know Fernando would—”
“We need to make the sheep smaller. If we were sending anything this big to the library—”
“We’d need to cuff it to nullify the magic and bring the size down first,” I said, nodding.
Silas set Fernando down. He pressed through the sheep toward the front of the big sheep. I dug through my bag and headed for the back legs. I pulled out my magical handcuffs, knowing Silas would be doing the same.
