Arrows rained upward once more.

“Put the door in reverse!” yelled Xar. “I take it back! She IS as bad as I thought!”

“But what on earth is Queen Sychorax doing? Why is she shooting at us?” said Bodkin, thoroughly bewildered. “Has she gone totally mad?”

“Well, she’s never been exactly a HUGGY sort of mother,” said Wish. “But I’m sure there’s some sort of perfectly reasonable explanation…”

And they were about to get that explanation.

BAM!

A direct hit on the Enchanted Door by a carefully aimed spear pierced the Magic that was delicately holding the jigsaw pieces of the door together.

“Keep it together, Wish!” shouted Caliburn. “Think of the door as a complete door!”

But Wish was not yet sufficiently in control of her Magic powers when taken by surprise like this. The door shattered into a thousand pieces, and the three children plummeted toward the ground.