Hopskotch and the Golden Cicada by Martin Vine

Author:Martin Vine [Vine, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788303583
Publisher: Olympia Publishers
Published: 2019-04-24T16:00:00+00:00

It all felt very familiar. Somehow he knew it to be his house, but it was not the one he lived in presently. He wondered if it were a wardrobe he’d wandered into. The room was cramped – almost too small even for a slight Syltling like himself – and very dark. There was just enough light to make out something directly in front of him. He was still indoors but he knew he wasn’t supposed to be in this room. The soft edges of the scene shimmered beyond reach and reason.

He tried again to focus. The blurred outlines began to form into a small wooden cabinet with five wide, shallow drawers. Each had a small keyhole in the centre, all rusted beyond repair.

All except one.

On the second drawer from the bottom was a keyhole that reflected silver light so brilliantly it was as if it alone was polished daily. Somewhere there is a key to this drawer, he remembered with building excitement.

Someone called his name in a voice achingly familiar. It was a child, though much older than himself. He knew the voice like his own mother’s, and it belonged to someone just as close. Strangely, he could not put a name to its owner. It called out to him again.

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