So, what happened after Abuela died? How is Mirabel coping with having failed in protecting her abuela?
Let’s find out!
Here is Chapter 8: Mirabel’s Magic
(*gasps* am I really answering that question now?)
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A shadow passed over the valley, and Casita shuddered. The candle high up in Abuela’s window flickered and dimmed, but didn’t go out. The doors held firm, unflickering. But Abuela was dead, and it seemed as if the magic was dying once more.
“What is happening?” Mirabel heard someone cry.
Mirabel felt tears well up in her eyes, but she would not give in. She knew what she had to do, and she couldn’t run to the Rainbow River and wait for Abuela to find her again—after all, Abuela was dead, gone forever.
Determined, Mirabel turned and marched through the chaos, the screams, the fighting. She hurried past her family using their magical abilities—something she couldn’t claim.
But she had a door. Perhaps she had something, a magical ability, that they didn’t have.
Nobody noticed her. How could they? She had no magic, nothing that might attract the villains’ attention. Even her bold-colored, flouncy dress was inconspicuous at the moment when compared to what the rest of her family was doing.
She hurried up the stairs and down the hall to her door.
Without a moment’s hesitation, she pushed it open and entered.
It was quite a simple room. Smaller than the other rooms her family—and now Miguela—had, but bigger than the nursery she had lived in for fifteen years. Cute things—a sewing machine for her many projects, paintings, and little figurines of butterflies—were scattered in various places around the room.
But that wasn’t what caught Mirabel’s eye.
What caught her eye was the candle, which was no longer in Abuela’s window. How had it gotten here? The only way was magic, something Casita was known for.
Slowly, Mirabel approached the candle, the butterfly indentations on it glowing brighter as she approached. She reached out her hand and touched it.
A blast of magic poured through her, filling her veins, her mind, her heart. A light shown through, illuminating the room in such a way that could not be explained. The light blasted from her room through the entire house.
Unbeknownst to Mirabel, at that moment everyone stopped and stared at the light.
The light hit all the villains and pushed them, prodded them, and forced them out of Casita and the surrounding village.
It pushed them out of the valley and sealed up the pass that had opened when the magic broke a few days before. Then, the light slowly faded, filling the candle—and Mirabel still—once more.
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Don’t you love that? I always thought there was a reason the candle withholded magic from Mirabel… there needed to be a sacrifice of love made for her, like Pedro dying for Abuela, and now Abuela dying for her family!
See you next month!
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