Bringers of Magic by E. Rose Sabin

Author:E. Rose Sabin [Sabin, E. Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-12T22:00:00+00:00

Ed watched Jerome walk away, toward the apple trees. He didn’t go after him. Why should he? This was a safe place; Jerome was in no danger, and neither was he. Let Jerome explore. If he got hungry, he could eat apples and maybe catch some fish.

Jerome’s questions had made Ed curious about the extent of this place, this other world. Rather than looking after Jerome, why not do his own exploring? As far as he could see, everything was exactly as he had imagined it. The meadow with its lovely flowers, the apple trees, the creek, the hill, the woods—he’d pictured them in great detail, and here they were, exactly as his imagination had drawn them.

But he had never ventured far into the woods, never thought about what lay beyond them. He had waded across the brook, but he had never walked far into the fields on the other side. He had no idea whether the fields stretched on forever or the world simply ended at the limits of his imagined place. Possibly he could enlarge it by picturing more of it. Say, mountains. Purple peaks just visible on the far horizon.

Squinting, he gazed off into the distance. Was there shape and substance to the purple haze where land and sky met? Could that be sunlight glinting off a snow-covered peak?

He smiled. He’d only seen mountains in pictures. North Woods Province, where Kyla and Marta were from, had a lot of mountains, but Inland Province, at least the part around Carey, was flat farmland. Trees grew along the rivers that watered the land, but there were no real forests.

Yet he’d put the woods in his special place because it seemed right, and he’d wanted shade and a place for small animals to live and play. It wasn’t big, he didn’t think, not like a real forest. He’d explore it today. On another day, maybe, he’d go and find the mountains.

He looked again to see what Jerome was doing. Picking apples, he thought. No, he had reached to break a branch from the tree. He shouldn’t do that. Ed considered going to him and scolding him for hurting the tree. They were, after all, Ed’s trees, and Jerome had no business damaging even one.

But then Jerome did pick and eat an apple, and did not seem bent on further destruction of the trees. He swung the branch about, hit it against his palm, and carried it as he marched farther off. The woods lay in the opposite direction, and Ed decided to ignore Jerome and follow his plan of exploration.

It was cool among the trees and full of the rich smell of growing things. Filtered sunlight dappled the carpet of leaves. In the deep shade, moss squished beneath his boots. A squirrel chittered from a branch high overhead. It dropped a nut at his feet. He picked it up and looked up with a grin. “Thanks for the treat,” he told the squirrel as he cracked the nut and popped it into his mouth.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.