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Jenna couldn&039;t sleep Not because of the icy chill of the cell air, or because of the hard little bed, the thin scratchy blanket or because her clothes felt cold and daht of the skull staring ee of the grinning white skull drifted by and woke her with a start

Jenna gave up trying to sleep She wrapped herself in Lucy&039;s cloak, heras she went over the events of the day Until she had seen the skull, Jenna had found it hard to believe that Simon meant her any harm In her mind he was still her eldest brother, the reliable one who always helped her out when she was in trouble and showed her how to do her homework But that was before Simon had picked up the skull, cradled it in his arms and told her how he had rescued Doht of the Apprentice Supper and that he was now DomDaniel&039;s Apprentice "How about that, little Miss Princess? And unlike his last useless Apprentice, I a out his every wish to the letter And his very particular as to have the Castle free of any interfering royalty, such as yourself He considers the power of the Queen an intolerable imposition on any ExtraOrdinary Wizard As do I So, if ant soyk back in the Castlenot just Marcia&039;s dinky little spellsthen soo" Simon had looked at her with a horrible coldness in his eyes, which stayed with her still

Jenna sat on the edge of the bed, thinking She wondered why Siot rid of her He could have easily pushed her off the ravine into the river or just left her out for the Land Wurht have said, he had still wanted to show off to his little sister But he had done that now, and tomorroould be a different story Maybe tos

Jenna shivered She heard a low noise drifting through the wall and her heart leaped into hernoise, and she knehat it wasit was the skull The noise got louder and louder; Jenna pressed her hands over her ears to blot out the awful sound, and then suddenly she realized what it really was: Si Which meant that Simon was asleep and she ake She could try and escapeshe must try and escape

Jenna tried the iron door It was bolted but there was a sap between the door and the wall, and Jenna wondered if she could push soap and somehow undo the bolts She looked around the cell but Simon had not been so considerate as to leave her a hacksaw Jenna put her hands in her pockets, wondering if she had anything on her that could help Septiht He always carried his Young Army knife, which had about a hundred and one different uses,horses&039; hooves She ht of Septiiven her thatWhere had she put it? There it was, damp and sticky, stuck at the bottom of her tunic pocket She pulled out the Charm, held it in her palm and squinted at the inscription:Take me, shake me,and I will make thee:Quetzalcoatl&039;s Tchocolatl

Well, she thought, it orth a try

Jenna tried to remember what Septimus had said when he had told her how to use the Charether and shook the Charm up and down as hard as she could to Activate it As she did so, she whispered the words written in the shts on what she wanted Sure enough, the Charrearh it were a real piece of chocolate Then, just as Septian to buzz like a srasp Jenna waited until the Charm was almost too hot to hold, and then quickly placed it on the object she wanted to turn into chocolatethe door of the cell

Jenna did not really believe that Septimus&039;s Charm could turn a thick iron door into chocolate But, as she pushed the Charainst the door, to her ae into a smooth surface that was cool, rather than icy cold, to the touch Soed too Jenna sniffed the airthe cell was filled with the faint smell of cocoa

Hesitantly, Jenna took the Charm off the cell door The Charazed at the door At first Jenna thought it seemed much the same as it had before, except now, as she looked es and even the flap over the keyhole were beautifully molded in chocolate Never in her life had Jenna seen so much chocolate and, unfortunately, never had she felt less like eating it

Jenna soon discovered that a massive slab of three-inch-thick chocolate, chilled hard on a cold night, is not easy to shift She pushed as hard as she could against it but the slab stayed as fir sos off the door to ht it would take all night

Jenna sat down disconsolately on the edge of the bed and ate soood chocolate, even better than the Choc Chunks from the sweetshop at the end of Wizard Waywhile she wondered what to do After a few an to help her think more clearly, and Jenna realized that she needed to find so sharp to help cut a hole in the door Si sharp in the cell, but, as Jenna hunted around, she soon discovered that even Siotten about the bedsprings

Jenna threw the thin mattress off the bed and quickly unwound one of the looser bedsprings until she held a sharp, pointed piece ofaway a hole in the door big enough to squeeze through, while, to her relief, Sih the walls

An hour later, Jenna&039;s bedspring had cut a large rectangle at the bottoive it a push and hope that it did not fall over with too loud a thud Carefully, Jenna pushed against one edge of the rectangle and to her delight, it moved easily Very quietly, Jenna laid the thick slab of chocolate on the floor, and, in case she got hungry later, she broke off the keyhole cover and stuffed it into her pocket Then she squeezed through the opening, stood up and wiped her chocolaty pal loudly; the snores echoed around the circular cha, for at least they were hue white dish of the Caely co scene outside, and noticed that Si on the dish Jenna picked up the Glass and stuffed it into her tunic pocket Now Sione