Epic by Conor Kostick
Author:Conor Kostick
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Social Issues - General, Social Issues, Computers, Magic, Fantasy (Young Adult), Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Juvenile Fiction, Video games, Fantasy & Magic, General, Sports & Recreation - Games - General, Science Fiction, Fantasy games, Games, Sports & Recreation, Role playing, Fiction, Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9780142411599
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published: 2008-05-20T07:00:00+00:00
Chapter NINE
The dream follows me around in the morning, leaving a little guilty ache in my chest. The van is full of people being carted to the Abel Tasman Park, and our suitcases and duffle bags are piled up in a big stack at the back. We’ve all packed for three days, duffel bags with our pajamas and slippers and toothbrushes. I have books, of course, in case I get bored in the evenings. My hope is that there will be some kind of Internet connection once we get there, even if my iPad is broken. My dad said it will be fixed in a couple of days, but for now, I’m without again. Phone service is still patchy after the earthquake, and I haven’t been able to get a text out, either.
I sit next to Darcy, who slumps in a doze. Most everyone else does the same thing, but I’m used to being up early, and my body seems to have finally synched with New Zealand time. I had planned to read the script on the way, but it’s too dark, so instead I stare out the window and watch the big, dark, starry sky. Sometimes I can see a light in a house or we pass through a little town, quiet at such an early hour.
It’s peaceful and helps me feel more like myself. I’m used to spending a lot of time alone; since I arrived here, I’ve been with people nearly all the time. Sipping tea from the take-away cup Katy gave each of us, I watch the landscape go by and feel it settling in me—that hill in the crook of my elbow, that house with the glowing kitchen across my throat, the big salt-stars sky seeping into my forehead.
When it starts to get light I pull the scripts out and start to read them. It’s a simple little story, mostly told in images. Two sets of tourists—the young set played by me, Colin and Kaleb, and the middle aged pair—are exploring the wonders of the South Island. Meanwhile, elves and mermaids and other mysterious beings are watching them. Maybe are them, really, since we each play an Elvish or other mystical counterpart. The older guy, who is dark and curly-haired, is Tangaroa, god of the sea and fishing. I am an Elvin princess, and Colin is the king. Kaleb is Maui, another Maori deity of the sea who shows up several times, and the description intrigues me—half his face covered in ink.
He’s sitting one bench ahead of me, on the other side of the aisle, and I glance over at him. He’s bent over the scripts, too. We’re the only two people awake on the van.
As if he feels my gaze, he looks over his shoulder. “Have you read it all?” he asks quietly.
I shake my head.
He raises his eyebrows, sucks his upper lip into his mouth, touches the page. I give him a perplexed expression in return. He flips the pages, points to one, then flashes his fingers, three and four.
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