Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton

Author:Christy Jordan-Fenton
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Annick Press Ltd
Published: 2013-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

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ONE EVENING IN OCTOBER, after a hard day of the Raven’s education, I sat over my bowl of cabbage soup in the long dining hall, watching the other children eat. It was the same food we had been force-fed when we first arrived, and I remembered how many girls had become ill. Those same girls were now lapping it up, because they were starving. It made me angry. How could they expect us to eat this meatless mush? My father’s sled dogs would not have licked the bowl it was put in. My stomach hurt, but that night I refused to touch it to my lips.

“Perhaps you need help with your appetite,” suggested the Raven as she dropped a soppy wet rag right in my lap. She didn’t have to say another word. By now, I knew that she intended for me to wipe down all of the tables.

I looked to Katherine and the other Gwich’in girls. They were like a flock of open-mouthed hatchlings, giggling at me.

“If I had a pocket of stones, I would shoo you with a storm of pebbles,” I said, and pushed the rag to the floor.

That Raven swooped down and clutched my dress in her claw. “This is no place for a willful child,” she hissed.

I jerked back, knocking my bowl over.

The mush oozed down the Raven’s dark habit. This time the hatchlings were laughing at her. She raised her claw at me and I crouched to avoid the blow. Then Sister MacQuillan glided between us, the Swan protecting me with her gentle wing.

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