Blood Red Road by Moira Young

Author:Moira Young [Young, Moira]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-04-04T06:17:31+00:00

I’m jest stubborn, I says.

I’m sorry to hafta say this, she says, but bein friends an al , it gives me the right to say … when was the last time you had a wash?

I realize I cain’t remember. I dunno, I says. A while back, I guess.

A long while back, I’d say, she says. She pushes past me, heads down the path further into the woods. I got a surprise fer you, she says.

This way.

We step out a the darkness of the forest into the shock of bright sunlight. We’re standin on a narrow shelf of bare rock that juts out into thin air. Straight across from us, water roars out a the side of a mountain. It rushes an tumbles down the rocks til it plunges into a deep pool below, where the sunlight dances an sparkles.

Maev disappears over the side of the rock.

I stare at the waterfal . It’s beautiful. Clean. Pure.

Are you comin or not? Maev hol ers. Her voice echoes of a the canyon wal s.

I fol ow behind as she picks her way over the rocks to the bot om. I ain’t bin swimmin fer such a long time. Me an Lugh used to swim in Silverlake al the time when we was lit le. Back before the lake dried up an everythin went wrong.

I’l take one dive into that cool water. Jest one. It’l help clear my head. Then I’l be able to think.

Maev jumps down onto a big at rock at the side of the pool. She shimmies out a her clothes quick an then she’s naked as the day she was born. Golden freckled skin, long strong legs, a tangled mane of copper hair. She takes a runnin leap, her legs an arms yin, an disappears unner the water. She breaks the surface, a big grin on her face.

It’s fantastic! she yel s.

I realize I ain’t never seen Maev smile before. She looks young. Like a kid.

Maev kit ed me out this mornin, everythin from shirt to skivvies. At rst, I didn’t wanna take their stu , but she said the Free Hawks is by way of bein highway robbers an that’s where it al comes from. When she told me that, I should of said no thanks. I know that stealin things is bad. But my clothes was nuthin but dirty rags an my ideas about what’s right an wrong ain’t so fine as they used to be.

I take of my stolen clothes an fold ’em in a neat pile on the warm rock. Then I dive in.

The icy cold water shocks my eyes wide open, slams into my heart. I shoot to the surface, gaspin. Maev’s laughin her head of .

You rat! I yel . It’s freezin cold!

It’l do you good!

I duck myself, over an over, in the sparklin cleanness til the lth of Hopetown’s washed from my body. I pul a handful of needles from a low hangin pine tree an rub ’em over my skin. Then Maev starts to chase me around an we splash an dunk each other.

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