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one myself soon,” she said. Then she lowered her voice. “I’m not really meant to talk about it yet. You know, FGC Section 37421 and all that.”
    “Oh, yes,” I said. “That old thing!”
    Tabitha laughed again. “You’re funny!” she said. “You’re not like other fairy godmothers — or should I say fairy godsisters!”
    Oh, no! She knew I wasn’t one of them! “No, I am, really,” I said enthusiastically. “I’m just the same. I’m exactly like all the other fairy godsisters. Look, see. I do this, like all the others.” I flew back to my desk. “And this.” I opened up my hand and let the numbers float into the air. I quickly punched them into my MagiCell before they flew off and I had no way of getting them back. “See!” I said with the brightest smile I could force onto my face. “Totally normal!”
    Tabitha laughed and shook her head. “OK, if you say so.”
    As the MagiCell whirred away softly, searching for Daisy’s FG number, Tabitha kept on talking. “It’s a shame I’m going,” she said. “Just when a cool new fairy godsister comes along.”
    A cool new fairy godsister? She meant me! For a moment, I was so taken aback, I couldn’t think of anything else. Me — ordinary Philippa Fisher — she saw me as a cool fairy godsister! Despite everything going on with my mom and with Daisy, I couldn’t suppress a smile.
    “When do you go?” I asked.
    “Couple of days, I think. I haven’t gotten all the details yet.” She glanced around the office to check that no one was listening. “It’s BLC!” she whispered.
    “Oh,” I said. I didn’t know what she meant.
    “That’s where I’m going,” she explained. BLC must be a fairy godmother department. It sounded more like some kind of sandwich to me!
    “Big Life Change,” she explained.
    “Oh, yes, of course,” I said, feeling more and more obviously an absolute fraud with every passing moment.
    “You haven’t heard of it, then,” she said. She looked disappointed.
    “Well, I —”
    “It’s OK,” she said. “I didn’t expect you to have heard of it. Hardly anyone has. It’s quite new. We help people who are adjusting to a new life.”
    “It sounds good,” I said, meaning it.
    “It’ll be the first client assignment I’ve had for ages! I’m really looking forward to it.”
    Just then, my MagiCell beeped. “Looks like someone wants you,” Tabitha said. “I’ll leave you alone.”
    She disappeared back to her desk, and I looked at the screen. When I saw the words, my heart flipped over and doubled its pace. FG FOUND! it said in big bold letters. Underneath, another word: CONNECT?
    I’d done it! I’d found Daisy! My heart beating so rapidly I felt as if it were going to fly out of my chest, I touched the screen. “Yes, connect!”
    This was it. I was going to talk to Daisy and find out what had happened to Mom!

“Daisy?” I said uncertainly into the MagiCell. How did you speak into one of these, anyway? I held it like a walkie-talkie, talking into the speaker and then holding it up to my ear.
    Nothing happened.
    I checked to see that no one was watching me. I didn’t want to look even more like a fool than I already did, with all the other things I’d gotten wrong.
    I tried again. “This is Philippa calling Daisy,” I said in a stage whisper. “Do you read me? Come in, Daisy.”
    Again, nothing. I was about to switch off the MagiCell and put it away when it suddenly crackled, then hissed, then hummed. And then —“Philippa?”
    I gripped the MagiCell with both hands and whispered into it again. “Daisy! Is that really you?”
    Daisy laughed. “I can’t believe it’s you,” she said. “How did you —”
    “It doesn’t matter,” I said. “I’ll explain when I see you. What’s happened with my mom?”
    “We stopped it!” Daisy said. “The SRB — it’s gone. Your mom’s fine!”
    I let out a breath that I felt I’d been holding in since we’d gotten to ATC and tried to reply, but