We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to our “Magic Cloak” series, from the book “Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak”, a children's book written by L. Frank Baum and published in 1905. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

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In the last episode, the war between the kingdoms of Noland and Ix ends with the Ixian army running away in fear of Nole’s magical powers. Queen Zixi devises a new plan to steal the magic cloak. She disguises herself as a girl and asks to become a royal maid of Princess Fluff.

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