This is just a short excerp from the first book in my series Cali of the Cards.

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“Are you sure it’s around here, Clow? Cali muttered, following the cat down a dark and quiet street in downtown Sepherton. “I mean, we haven’t heard or felt the card since that one time earlier, and there wasn’t anything about it on the news.”
After her mother had gotten home, Cali had pretended to go to bed, when she later snuck out- in her polka-dot pajamas, too- with Clow to go searching for the “quaking card.” It was almost eleven o’clock and the two had already traveled very far away from the house; Cali was wearing her rollerblades, but Clow seemed perfectly happy walking down the calm streets. While Cali was lagging behind from fatigue, Clow walked with a subtle spring in his steps, like he was trying to walking off the hundred years he had been sleeping.
“Don’t worry, Cali,” Clow assured, sounding very confident with his sense of direction. The Pure Card is very close to this area; I can feel its presence.”
“What do you mean, you can feel it?” Cali asked as the passed by her favorite ice cream place. The usually bright neon sign flashing the restaurant’s name was dull and the lights inside were dark. It didn’t matter, anyway, because Cali would be too nervous to eat ice cream right then.
“I can …sort of sense where the cards are, Clow said, stopping before a small bookstore to look down a dark alley that led to the next street over. When he found nothing in the alley, he continued down the road. “It’s like I know, or I can see where the card is. Eventually you’ll be able to sense where they are, too.”
Suddenly Clow’s pointed ears perked up and he focused his direct attention somewhere down the street. “C’mon! It’s down here, I know it is!” Clow exclaimed, cantering down the street and turning into a dead-end alley behind the toy store Coley’s mother ran.
The tiny, box-like space was lighted by a dim light bulb hanging over the back door, casting dark shadows into the alleyway’s corners. The only things in the compact area besides Cali and Clow were a few stacks of empty boxes that once held the merchandise now set up on shelves in the toy store, and two tin trash cans; the lid on one was hanging off of the side, half off, half on. Other than the blinking light bulb, nothing in the alley looked out of the ordinary to Cali.
“Sorry Clow,” Cali said after about five minutes of inactivity in the alley. “But I don’t think the card is in here. Nothing’s happening.”
“No…” Clow whispered, walking cautiously around the space. “It’s here; I know it is. And (He began to advance upon the two trash cans) it’s…( One of the cans- the one with the lopsided lid- started to quiver slightly) right in…(Clow was right in front of the shaking can and Cali was holding her breath as she slowly crept along behind him) THERE!”
Instantly the can’s lid crashed to the ground, causing a loud sound like a cymbal crash, as a small, speedy mass shot out from the trash bin; the action caused the can to fall, too, and as it crashed down the other can collapsed with it.
“What is that?” Cali screamed, clamping her hands over her ears and trying to avoid the zooming, bouncing black mass shooting around the alley; it was moving so quickly that Cali couldn’t tell what “that” looked like.
Clow leapt into the air and managed to pin the fast-moving little creature down long enough for Cali to see that it greatly resembled a rabbit. It was a pitch black rabbit with tall, TV antennae ears and a long tail similar to its ears with a small black orb on the tail’s tip. The creature had long, thin legs and forearms, very tiny, padded paws, and ragged fur. But this “hopper” was a little bigger than the winged feline and was able to free itself from Clow’s pin, propelling itself out of the alley and into the main street, where it sat, balancing on its back paws in the middle of the road, staring right into Cali’s eyes with luminous crimson ones.
“That’s the Jump Card!” Clow said, struggling to lift himself up; the creature had injured Clow more than he thought so Cali had to bend down and place the cat onto her shoulder. “Hurry! Summon the Staff like I showed you!”
“Right.” Cali, keeping one eye on the card creature, tugged on the thin gold chain around her neck and pulled it over head so that the staff’s charm was dangling in front of her. Then Cali recited the words Clow had repeatedly explained to her: “Staff of Pure, I summon you now. Reveal your true form to me, Cali, so that I may shed light where darkness resides.”

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