Glassheart by Kate Alice Marshall

Author:Kate Alice Marshall [Marshall, Kate Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2022-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

They decided to leave immediately. There was no sense in waiting around for Mr. January to show up and stop them, after all.

“I’ll get Thea,” Eleanor said.

“We’re bringing her?” Otto asked.

Eleanor nodded. “I don’t want to leave her here when Mr. January is skulking around.”

“I’m coming as well,” the hedgewitch said. Eleanor gave her a surprised look, and she arched an eyebrow. “I’m not going to pass up visiting the greatest treasury of knowledge in all the worlds.”

“Knowledge. That’s all you care about, isn’t it?” Eleanor asked. “You’re not coming along to help us. Just to satisfy your own curiosity.”

The hedgewitch was silent for a moment. “Claire thought that I would hurt you, to stop Mr. January. So she fought the Story tooth and nail, and when it started to take her over, she ran. She was alone and angry when she became the hedgewitch, and that’s what the Story devoured, and that’s what I became. The only thing I have had for comfort is knowledge, and that is gone, too. I’m trying to learn how to be something more, but it isn’t easy, Eleanor.”

Eleanor’s own anger rose in her. Was she supposed to feel sorry for the hedgewitch? For the person who had destroyed her mother? Her hands balled into fists. She wanted to scream—she wanted to hit the woman—she wanted to run.

Instead, her ears ringing, she marched out of the room and walked up the stairs. She meant to go wake Thea, but at the top of the stairs she stopped and sagged against the wall. She squeezed her eyes shut, choking back a sob.

It hurt so much she couldn’t breathe. It hurt so much she could feel the hurt turning swiftly into hate.

The words of The Glass-Heart Girl echoed in her mind.

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