Liar by Justine Larbalestier

Author:Justine Larbalestier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2010-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

BEFORE

It didn’t.

Sunday morning I was still not a wolf. My arms had stopped itching and the bumps had cleared. When I used the bucket there was no further sign of blood.

“I think it was a false alarm,” I told my dad. “Does that happen?”

“I don’t know,” he said. He held his hands out in front of him. He couldn’t call the Greats—they had no phone. “I’ll have to drive up. Ask them. I can’t leave you in the cage if it’s a false alarm.”

He did two hours up (breaking speed limits) and two hours back (breaking them all over again) to learn that, yes, false alarms happen and that if the change hasn’t happened in that first twenty-four hours and the signs go away, then the change is not coming.

I could have screamed.

If the Greats had been there I’d’ve killed them.

Dad came home as fast as he could and opened the cage and let me out before he explained a thing.

I staggered. I had never gone so long without running, let alone standing. I was not sure I could do it again. Go back into that cage?

Mom and Dad held me tight despite the way I smelled. Despite the smell from the bucket.

I kept my back to the cage. When they let me go I went and showered.

It was only then that I wept.

I would not go back in that cage. I would not live with the Greats.

There had to be another way.

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