Lost (22 page)
Authors: Sarah Prineas
P
LACES
ACADEMICOS
—Set on an island in the river that runs between the Twilight and the Sunrise, the academicos is a school for the rich students and potential wizards of Wellmet. Conn enrolls there after becoming Nevery’s apprentice.
DAWN PALACE
—The home of the Duchess and Rowan. The palace itself is a huge, rectangular building—not very architecturally interesting, but with lots of decorations crusted on it to make it fancy.
HEARTSEASE
—Nevery’s ancestral island home. The middle of the house was blown up by Nevery’s pyrotechnic experiments twenty years before this story. So the two ends of
the house are left standing and the middle looks like it has a bite taken out.
MAGISTERS HALL
—Seat of power for the wizards who control and guard the magic of Wellmet. It is a big, imposing gray stone building on an island with a wall built all the way around it at the waterline.
JAGGUS’S FORTRESS
—The sorcerer-king’s secret fortress is built of bone-white stone and stands alone in the middle of the desert.
WELLMET RUNIC ALPHABET
In Wellmet, some people write using runes to stand for the letters of the alphabet. In fact, you may find some messages written in runes in
The Magic Thief: Lost
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BENET’S CHICKEN POT PIE WITH BISCUIT CRUST
4 tablespoons butter
½ cup flour
2 cups chicken broth
1 ½ cups milk
Chicken, cooked, cut into cubes
½ teaspoon nutmeg
A little lemon juice
A little white pepper
Melt butter in pan. Add flour, stirring. Remove from heat, add chicken broth. Stir. Add milk. Stir over low heat until simmering. Remove from heat and whisk vigorously until smooth; return to medium heat for one minute. Turn off heat, mix in chicken, nutmeg, and lemon juice and white pepper to taste.
Next:
2 tablespoons butter
1 chopped medium onion
1 ½ cups chopped carrots
¼ cup chopped celery
¾ cup peas
3 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
Melt butter in pan. Cook vegetables until soft. Add vegetables to chicken mixture. Put in baking pan. Preheat oven to 400°F. Add biscuit crust; bake.
BENET’S BISCUIT CRUST
1 recipe biscuit dough:
2 cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons bee’s wing (baking powder)
2 teaspoons sugar
½ cup butter
½ cup milk
Mix dry ingredients together in bowl. Cut in butter until fine and crumbly. Make a well in these ingredients and pour in milk. Knead with your fingers only until blended—do not over-work or dough will be hard and flat. Roll to one knuckle thick. Cut and lay out biscuit dough in squares on top of chicken and vegetable mix. Brush top with beaten egg to make it brown during baking (not required). Bake at 400°F for 25 to 30 minutes.
CONN’S FROG POT PIE WITH BISCUIT CRUST
A lot of butter
Two handfuls of flour
About two cups of milk
Lots of pepper
Melt butter in pot. Add flour and milk and mix up really well with a spoon.
Frogs, cooked
Whatever kinds of vegetables you can find.
Potatoes and carrots and beans are best.
Also turnips.
Chop them with a knife and cook them with butter.
Mix frogs and sauce and vegetables.
Put in pot.
Make biscuits. Put on top of pot.
Bake in a hot oven until it is done.