01_-_The_Alchemyst

personal protection if she is to survive the rest of the Awakening process.
The fact that she’s still sane and whole these many hours later is testament to
her strength of will.” Her head tilted back and Sophie caught the old
woman’s face looking at her from a mirror suspended from the ceiling. “This
I will do.”
“Thank you,” Nicholas Flamel said with a deep sigh. “I know how
difficult the last few hours have been for her.”
Josh found that he could not look at his sister. There was more to the
Awakening. Did that mean she would have to suffer more pain? It was
heartbreaking.
Scathach knelt by her grandmother’s chair and laid a hand on her arm.
“Gran, Dee and his masters are chasing the two missing pages from the
Codex,” she said. “I would imagine that by now they know—or at least
suspect—that Sophie and Josh are the twins mentioned in the Book of
Abraham.”
Dora nodded. “Dee knows.”
Scathach stole a glance at Flamel. “Then he knows that not only does he
have to retrieve the pages, but he has to either capture or kill the twins.”
“He knows that, too,” Dora confirmed.
“And if Dee succeeds, then this world ends?” Scathach said, turning the
simple sentence into a question.
“The world has ended before,” the Witch answered, smiling. “I’m sure
it will end many times before the sun turns black.”
“You know that Dee intends to bring back the Dark Elders?”
“I know.”
“The Codex says that the Dark Elders can only be stopped by Silver and
Gold,” Scatty continued.
“The Codex also says, if my memory serves me true, that apples are
poisonous and frogs can turn into princes. You don’t want to believe
everything you read in that Codex,” the witch snapped.