A Riddle of Green by Isobelle Carmody

A Riddle of Green by Isobelle Carmody

Author:Isobelle Carmody [Carmody, Isobelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781742534619
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Published: 2011-12-15T05:00:00+00:00


Little Fur awoke to darkness and misty air that vibrated with a great muffled roaring. The wander was sitting beside her, but there was no sign of Ofred or Danger or the lemmings.

‘Where are the others?’ she asked, forcing herself to sit up. Her arms and legs felt as if they did not want to obey her will.

‘You knocked your head on a stone when you landed,’ Wander said. ‘Danger and the lemmings have gone to the shore of the sea. Do you want to go down to them?’

‘What is that noise?’ asked Little Fur, standing up.

‘It is the great sea,’ Wander said.

‘The sea?’ Little Fur cried in astonishment.

Instead of speaking, the wander began to make his way up the white dunes, avoiding the long whipping strands of sea grass, until at last, Little Fur saw the great sea. It went from the land to the horizon in all directions and the vastness of it seemed to speak some truth too huge for any single creature to understand.

Brownie had spoken of the waves, but none of his stories had prepared her for the murmurous hissing thunder of them, nor for the compelling rhythm of their movement towards the land. The edge of the sea heaved up into a wave that toppled forward, curling with white foam as it crashed down upon the sand. Then it dragged itself massively back, drawing sand and weed and pebbles with it and leaving a spittle of foam hissing in its wake, only to thump down again. The movement was so enormous that Little Fur felt herself swaying first towards the retreating sea, and then away as it roared back towards her.

She stood staring at it for a long time, the sticky dampness of the night air settling on her skin like wet spider web, but at last she roused herself and looked along the shore for the others.



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