Bark vs. Snark by Spencer Quinn

Author:Spencer Quinn [Quinn, Spencer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2020-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

Darkness, darkness, and I didn’t feel too good. All was black, but I knew it was daytime. Day smells different from night.

A car door opened, not far away. A woman got out. A woman’s footsteps are different from a man’s. She took a few steps. Then someone farther away said, “Dr. Tess?”

That someone was Harmony! Oh, how happy I was to hear her voice. Harmony, my Harmony.

“Had to buy four new tires,” Dr. Tess said. I knew her, of course, perhaps not my favorite human, but far far up the scale from my … my kidnapper. Which is what he was. “Just crazy that someone would do a thing like that,” Dr. Tess went on. “But I thought I’d drop by on the way in, see how Queenie’s doing.”

“Oh, thank you,” said Harmony.

Dr. Tess’s footsteps moved toward Harmony. Then both sets of footsteps moved … moved away? In the exact wrong direction from me?

But I’m here! Queenie’s here! Harmony! My Harmony!

A door closed. I knew the sound of that door closing very well, had heard it so many times. It was the front door of the Blackberry Hill Inn. I was home.

And not home. From around the side of the house came other footsteps, a man’s. They crunched across the gravel parking lot, crunch crunch. A car door opened. The space I was in sagged down a bit. The car door closed. The engine fired. I sensed movement. And put it all together. I was in the trunk of a car and we were driving away from my home.

From in front came the faint smell of cotton candy.

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