Emily Windsnap and the Land of the Midnight Sun by Liz Kessler

Author:Liz Kessler [Kessler, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-7636-6196-0
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2012-08-22T04:00:00+00:00

The moment the ship docked in the port, I was in the water. I didn’t even wait for the doors to open. I hung around at the back of the ship on level three, the lowest one with an outside deck. I looked around, making sure there was no one near. And then, as gracefully and silently as I could, I dived into the choppy water.

She was there in moments.

“Shona!”

“Emily!”

We fell into each other’s arms. “You are real, aren’t you?” I gasped. “It’s not a dream?”

“It’s not a dream,” Shona said seriously. “But when I’ve told you why I’m here, you might wish it were.”

Despite Neptune’s potion on my body, I turned cold inside. “What is it? Why are you here? How did you get here? How did you know where we were?”

Shona held up a hand. “Whoa! One thing at a time.”

I took a breath. “OK. How did you get here?”

“It wasn’t the easiest thing in the world,” she admitted. “I swam some of it — and caught a few lifts.”

“Lifts?” I gasped. “Who with?”

“A couple of dolphins to begin with. They were great. Then I had to swim a bit more. That bit was quite tough, as the currents weren’t going my way. Luckily a lovely blue whale spotted me and helped me out. Then finally, a pod of orcas brought me the last couple of hundred miles.”

I stared at Shona. I literally didn’t know what to say. She had done all this — for me? She’d either missed me really badly, or something was very, very wrong.

“Do your parents know you’re here?” I asked.

Shona blushed. “They don’t know about your trip or anything, so I told them I was going to stay with you on Fortuna for a few days. I hate lying to them, but it was important.”

“How did you know where we were?” I asked.

Even if I’d had a hundred guesses as to what her answer might be, I would still never have gotten it right.

“Neptune told me,” she said.

Before I could do anything more than let my jaw drop open, she went on. “Well, he didn’t actually tell me. At least, he didn’t mean to tell me.”

“Shona, my head is spinning enough without riddles. What’s going on? What are you talking about?”

“I kept the phone on me the whole time. Even when I went to bed, I had it beside me on my pillow. And then something woke me up just after I’d gone to bed last night. It sounded like waves crashing over a pebbly beach — and it looked like stars glinting and shining. But it was the shell phone calling.”

“Neptune — trying to get in touch with us.”

Shona nodded. “I picked up the shell, and straightaway I heard him speaking. I couldn’t make sense of it at first — it was like he was just shouting random words down the phone.”

That sounded familiar. I still had many of Neptune’s early morning ramblings bouncing around in my head. “What kinds of things did he say?”

“I can’t remember it all.

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