Free The Magi (The Magi Series) by Kevin M. Turner Page A

the library.
    After his classes were finished, Elijah walked into the library and asked the librarian again for the book of students. He flipped through the pages once more but nothing stood out to him. Elijah sat down at a table and thought. What research had he done? What was Master Roddick talking about? He looked through all of his class research, but he still found nothing.
    At last, he thought of something. Elijah remembered talking with Master Roddick during one of their meetings about research he had done in the library near Uncle Stan’s. He asked for a book by J.J. McClintock. They had it! He hurried to the shelf and picked up Historical Myths and Analysis —the book he looked through in the downtown library by Uncle Stan’s house.
    Elijah opened the book to page 234. He knew this was the right book because when he turned to the page, a note was sitting inside labeled “ELIJAH”. He opened it and read.
     
“ ELIJAH – I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU SOON.
 
IF YOU TRUST ME, MEET ME BY THE FOUNTAIN AT MIDNIGHT ON THE LAST DAY OF TERM. I HAVE INFORMATION TO SHARE WITH YOU. IF YOU LET ME, I CAN TEACH YOU MUCH MORE THAN YOU CAN EVEN IMAGINE.
 
-R-
 
P.S. THE MAGI ARE REAL.”
     
     
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CHAPTER 6: THE SECRET OF THE MAGI

     
     
    With just a few days left of term, it took a lot of concentration for Elijah to remain focused. The minute he read Roddick’s note, Elijah decided he was going to meet, but the suspense was almost killing him. Elijah read the note a hundred times, it seemed, wondering what exactly Roddick meant by teaching him much more than he could imagine. Was he going to tutor him? If so, why meet at midnight? Why not just wait until he returned? When the questions started buzzing like this, Elijah had to remind himself to slow down and focus. Just meet, he thought. Roddick will answer the questions then. Whatever the Magi were and whatever Master Roddick was going to teach him would have to wait.
    One evening, two days before the end of term, Elijah was feeling particularly lonely and missed his family. He was alone in his room with not much to do. He had finished his homework, his chores were done early, and for the first time in many days, Elijah had free time. He decided to finally open up one of Kyria’s diaries and read. He had been carrying her diaries for a while but never read a single entry. It was too painful to read before, but he felt a particular draw to reading them now. He decided to start reading the unlocked diary first. He picked it up and opened it. On the inside of the cover he found an inscription. It read:
 
“ To my little cricket:
I hope this is something you can use. Keep it safe.
     
-Dad”
     
    Elijah flipped to the first page.
     
“ Dear Diary –
 
I hope that is the only time I call you “Diary”. I find it cliché. In fact, I don’t know why I call you anything at all. You’re a book. You have no feelings.
Well, I hope to find this book useful. One day I may read back on this and think how stupid this all sounds. Or maybe one day I can share this with my daughters and it will help them sort out their thoughts too.”
 
— Kyria
     
    Reading the diary made Elijah upset at how things turned out. His sister would have no more thoughts to put down. There would be no daughters of hers to guide. It was unfair! He considered putting the diary down and reading it some other time, but each time he told himself he was going to stop, he turned another page and read another entry. He kept going and going until he realized he was almost finished. Surprisingly, reading the diary entries made him feel comforted. Most of the entries were silly girl stuff, he thought, but some were very deep. He never knew how much Kyria thought about things.
    One entry talked about a fight she had with Elijah. According to the diary, he told her that she only cared about herself. At the time, he was just throwing out an insult in the heat of a fight. Reading the entry, however, Elijah