Frost by Kate Avery Ellison

Author:Kate Avery Ellison [Ellison, Kate Avery]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Young Adult, Fantasy, Read, Series, Romance, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781475005875
Amazon: 1475005873
Goodreads: 13555538
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-04-17T22:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

THE DAYS PASSED slowly. We worked at quota while the snow fell outside, because there was nothing else to do in the winter months but work at inside projects and hope the Watchers stayed away. I continued to see tracks across the path into the village and around the perimeter of our yard, but no more claw marks breached the unbroken field of white between the house and the barn, for which I was grateful. The snow piled up in drifts, and Ivy and I struggled to clear a path before the farmhouse door and the barn. Snowshoes became necessary for trekking across the fields and around the edges of the farm.

Gabe grew stronger every day. Soon his injury began to heal into an ugly pink scar, and he stopped screaming in his dreams as his fevers ceased completely.

Another week, another quota due, and I took the sack of thread and yarn into town. I avoided Cole because I didn’t know how to dissuade his interest in me and I didn’t have the energy to argue with him about it. I tried to speak to Ann, but every time I went into town she was either missing or surrounded by friends. I wasn’t able to get her away from the others, but it probably didn’t matter anyway. Even if I had managed to have a private conversation with her, I didn’t know what I would say.

In every Assembly I attended, I stared hard at the back of every head in front of me, trying to imagine who could be working with the Thorns. Such outside contact—with Farthers, no less—was strictly forbidden. Who would have dared to risk it, and why?

One day I returned home to find Gabe showing Jonn how to walk with the help of what he called dual crutches, which worked far better than Jonn’s pitiful single crutch that he occasionally used to hobble around. Jonn demonstrated his new freedom by traveling to the kitchen and back, and when he finally plunked down in his chair by the fire we all burst into enthusiastic applause at his efforts.

Gabe caught me smiling and said I looked very nice when I smiled, and that made me disinclined to smile, and I told him so. He replied I was a difficult girl to understand, and I told him that maybe if he weren’t such a simpleton he wouldn’t think so, because everyone else in the village seemed to make perfect sense of me. Ivy broke in to our bickering and said that our flirting was making everyone else uncomfortable, and that shut us both up, although I swear I saw Gabe smile before he turned his head. And even though I was partly angry at him, I wanted to smile, too.

It was madness.

I was no closer to deciding what to do about Gabe, either. (“You’ve stopped calling him ‘Farther,’” Ivy noted aloud one afternoon.) I knew he couldn’t stay here in the Frost, although thinking it made me restless and unhappy.

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