A Single Stone by Meg McKinlay

Author:Meg McKinlay [McKinlay, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781925126464
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Published: 2015-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

Deep in the mountain, Lia turns her head towards a sound.

It is muffled, distant, an echo coming to her through thick layers of stone. And so it cannot be what it sounds like, which is a voice, screaming.

Perhaps it is a skybird. Something outside, wheeling, calling.

Up ahead, there is a sliver of light, the edge of the sky leaking into the mountain. She had thought the village was at her back, but the fissures she has followed through the rock have led her up and down and all about. Somewhere along the way she must have got turned around. The mountain, she has learned, is full of such tricks.

She waits awhile, listening, but the sound does not come again.

Home soon, she tells herself. A fire in the hearth. Dinner. She must check her snare. Yesterday she lost track of time while she was in here and came out into darkness – too late to gather firewood, too late to catch the bird she had promised Father for the pot.

She must not let that happen again. It is one thing to come to the mountain; she must not neglect her chores on the outside.

She is turning back when she sees it. The smallest shift in the light – a shadow slipping across it?

It must be a skybird. Not something to snare but to see – to watch quietly from a secret place, unobserved.

She will go home soon. Just not quite yet.

It is the slimmest crack in the stone but it is enough. She turns towards it and begins to crawl.

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