Ask the Bones

Author:Various
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US

The hunter was beginning to fear that she might be right. Now he realized with horror where he’d seen her cruel eyes—in the wave at the beach and in the cup in the forest. But he rushed outside, determined to try again. He burned the fox’s hair and called for help.

The fox bounded to his side. “Fear not,” it said, and it led him into a tunnel it had dug under the palace. The hunter crawled after the fox until they reached a spot directly under the princess’s room. They could hear her footsteps overhead. When morning came they heard her walk over to the window. At first all was silent. Then she began talking to herself. “Not in the sky,” she said. And a little later, “Not in the ocean.” Later yet she shouted, “Not on the earth?” That’s when she threw her spyglass against the wall and smashed it into a thousand pieces.

“I’m safe,” cried the hunter.

He was thanking the fox for saving him when he heard the angry princess stamping her foot on the floor above his head. Crack! Her leg came down through a rotten board over the tunnel. She pulled her leg out and peered through the jagged hole with those cold, cruel eyes.

“I found you!” she said.

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