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Rufus and Clara are two beekeepers who areshocked to find that their families’ bees are dying. Strange, when thesunflowers they feed off are bigger than ever and when the wizards of TheSouthern Lands are doing so much to help nature thrive with their spells. Rushing to The Wizardry for help, they meet atrainee wizard called Mellek. He tells them about a wizard ‘up river’ who iscausing quite a stir, using a new kind of magic that seems more powerful thanever. This must be what they need to fix their problem so they decide to go insearch of him. But very soon it becomes clear that the natureof things - both plants and animals - is being changed. They are attacked by avicious fox, see flowers fusing into each other and find an orchard withimpossibly perfect apples. With help from Clara’s tame deer, Tikki, theyencounter danger and disaster the closer they get to the mysterious wizard. Is he really the answer to their problems, oris something altogether more sinister going on? What does the magic of thewizards really do?These are the questions that Rufus, Clara andMellek will need of all their courage, wits and determination to answer. Thewhole health of their homeland depends on them.
Rufus and Clara are two beekeepers who areshocked to find that their families’ bees are dying. Strange, when thesunflowers they feed off are bigger than ever and when the wizards of TheSouthern Lands are doing so much to help nature thrive with their spells. Rushing to The Wizardry for help, they meet atrainee wizard called Mellek. He tells them about a wizard ‘up river’ who iscausing quite a stir, using a new kind of magic that seems more powerful thanever. This must be what they need to fix their problem so they decide to go insearch of him. But very soon it becomes clear that the natureof things - both plants and animals - is being changed. They are attacked by avicious fox, see flowers fusing into each other and find an orchard withimpossibly perfect apples. With help from Clara’s tame deer, Tikki, theyencounter danger and disaster the closer they get to the mysterious wizard. Is he really the answer to their problems, oris something altogether more sinister going on? What does the magic of thewizards really do?These are the questions that Rufus, Clara andMellek will need of all their courage, wits and determination to answer. Thewhole health of their homeland depends on them.