Thanks to all readviewers! I thought that any creature who truly had that keen of hearing would surely have gone mad pretty quickly, so perhaps Moonwood's not-insignificant natural skill was greatly embellished in the telling.


Prompt: Someone is invisible.


Sneaking past the magician sounded like fun. And even after less than a day, Clipsie already hated her new foot, so she tagged along with Papa's group.

One of them dragged the magic book down from the desk, and they all began examining it. But even though they leafed through the entire tome, they could find no spell for reversing a spell of ugliness.

"Back to the start," said Papa. "If we can't fix it, p'r'aps we can hide it."

So they leafed through the book again (more carefully this time, since they'd discovered the pages could not be turned backwards) and settled finally on a spell of invisibility. Clipsie was curious if it would work for someone who wasn't the magician. It seemed like maybe not, as one after another read the spell and nothing happened. The last one stumbled over the funny words, and she couldn't help giggling.

At the sound they all remembered she was there. "Here," said Papa, "why don't you try it, Clipsie? No harm in trying."

"I guess." She peered down at the spell. It wasn't very long, but the words were odd, so she thought about how to say them. Then she took a deep breath and made her best attempt—how very odd the words were!

She almost thought nothing had happened. Then there was a funny tingling sort of feeling, like what happened in her stomach when she missed a step going down a flight of stairs, except it was all over her body. Then it faded.

The other dwarfs started cheering. She looked round and couldn't see them. For a moment she was excited. It had worked! She'd done it!

Then she realized she couldn't see Papa. She couldn't see herself. She wouldn't be able to see Mama or Kori or baby Elna either.

Amidst the shouts of joy, Clipsie started to cry.


But do not fear! The Dawn Treader will be here in a week or two, and then she'll make friends with Lucy.