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“A Piece of Magic, a Piece of Luck”
by
Izaro Salcedo, 2 ESO

It was a warm afternoon on a sunny day when Chickeyti was walking down her favorite street.  She liked climbing and most days when she saw a tree, Chickeyti would climb it.  She resisted climbing the first tree she came upon that day.  She also turned away from the second tree.  She climbed the third tree, however, and that is where she found a blue polar bear charm on a silver chain.  She had never seen such a magical charm before, the head of the polar  bear having such beautiful detail.
                Chikeyti believed she had entered upon a lucky streak.  She decided to wear her necklace everywhere, to school, to the swimming pool, to the zoo, and she never took it off, not even to sleep.  Her faith was that the charm truly charmed her life and brought her luck.
                There was a catch, of course, as there is always a catch.  On the back side of the polar bear, a name was engraved on it:  Georgepous.  At first Chikeyti didn´t give it much thought because it was a name she didn´t recognize.  The more she thought about it, though, the more she was convinced that she had to discover who or what Georgepous was.  She tried the local library and when that didn’t work, she tried Google.
                And there he was.  Georgepous, Chikeyti learned, was a magician from the not-so-distant past, someone that her grandparents or even her parents might remember.  From the information Chikeyti had, Georgepous was still alive and living in a remote village across the country.  There was an image of the polar bear charm in one of the documents about him.  The inscription under the photo read, “The magician’s enchanted pendant.”
                Chikeyti took some necessary things to travel and she set out in search of Georgepous.  His last known address was in a town called Spotted Hare, population six.  Chikeyti hoped to find him there, and so she bought a bus ticket.
                On board, the last seat available was next to a very strange boy with only one eye and no nose.  When Chikeyti sat down, the boy spoke to her straight away.
                “Hi!  I’m Cyclopesiti.  What’s your name?”
                “My name is Chikeyti. I’m sorry, but I have to ask.  What happened to your face?”
                Cyclopesiti rose quickly, stepped over her and jumped off the bus.  Chikeyti watched from the window as he ran into a nearby wood.  She was stunned by her behavior, but she knew that the bear charm had something to do with her new assertiveness.