Crossed by Condie Ally

Author:Condie, Ally [Condie, Ally]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2011-10-19T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

CASSIA

You don’t look right,” Indie says. “Do you think we should slow down?”

“No,” I say. “We can’t.” If I stop I’ll never start again.

“It doesn’t do anyone any good if you die on the way,” she says, sounding angry.

I laugh. “I won’t.” Though I’m exhausted, hollow and dry and aching, the idea of dying is ridiculous. I can’t die now when I might draw closer to Ky with every step I take. And besides, I have the blue tablets. I smile, imagining what the other scraps inside might say.

I search and search for another sign from Ky. Though I’m not dying, I may be more ill than I first thought, because I find signs in everything. I think I see a message from Ky in the pattern of cracked mud on the canyon floor, where it rained once and then hardened into something that I think could be interpreted as letters. I crouch down to look at it. “What does this look like to you?” I ask Indie.

“Mud,” she tells me.

“No,” I say. “Look more closely.”

“Skin, or scales,” she says, and for a moment I am so taken with her idea I pause. Skin, or scales. Maybe this whole canyon is one long winding serpent that we walk along, and when we reach the end, we can step right off the tail. Or we’ll get to the mouth and it will swallow us whole.

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