Liar's Test by Ambelin Kwaymullina

Author:Ambelin Kwaymullina [Kwaymullina, Ambelin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2024-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

15

As expected, the room was windowless. In the center of the floor was a hole covered by a grate, with a white orb floating above it. Vapors rose up through the grate, only to be sucked into the orb and released again. Except the vapors that came through the grate were a colorless shimmer in the air and the ones that came out of the orb were silver. The sisters were taking something that came from the earth and changing it for their own purposes.

The vapors were surrounded by white chairs, arranged into a loose circle. Each one was curved into an S shape and looked really comfortable, all soft and padded…. Yeah. I was already sleepy.

Spite charged ahead and reached a chair first. Tamsin, Sasha, and I stumbled over to fall into chairs on the other side of the grate. I focused as hard as I could on Mum and Granny, and all the Silverleafs. Show me their memories. Show me the things they know that I don’t.

Then my eyes drooped shut and I was asleep.

For a moment there was only the peaceful dark. Then…vines? They twined together to form a tunnel that sprouted with green leaves and red flowers. And there were doors. Lots of them, spaced out along the viny passage. The doors were dreams, I just knew it the way you know things sometimes in—well, dreams. And with any luck, at least some of them were Silverleaf memories.

The vines beneath my feet grew warm and then hot, sending me dancing from side to side. I couldn’t stay here. I had to go through a door. But which one?

“Tricks? What do you think?”

They are all the same!

“I know, that’s why I asked!” I cast a frantic glance around, trying to find something, anything, that would distinguish one door from the other. But Tricks was right—they were all the same.

Then one of them suddenly shifted in color, turning smoky black. That was enough of a sign for me, and anyway my feet were burning so I couldn’t stay here any longer. I dove forward, wrenching the door open to throw myself inside.

I became someone else. Only I wasn’t Mum, or Granny, or any other Silverleaf.

I wasn’t even human.

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