Lost Voices by Sarah Porter

Author:Sarah Porter [Porter, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Published: 2011-10-10T12:42:40+00:00

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Luce found all of them at what she thought of now as the dining beach. The rain had finally stopped, and Catarina was talking closely with Jenna, which, Luce realized, was happening more and more often. Luce had the sudden miserable thought that she was too young for Catarina really to consider her a friend. Catarina had simply been through too much; she might feel protective of Luce, she might regard her with a slightly con-i 145

descending affection, but she couldn’t possibly think of her as an equal. It was only Luce’s singing that had made Catarina respect her at all.

Luce was even more hurt when she realized that Catarina was talking about her first tribe, one that lived on the Russian coast. She had never mentioned a word about it to Luce.

“The queen was Marina,” Catarina was saying. “She was crazy, but so brave . . . She’d take on any kind of ship. Things I would never dream of trying now . . . Once we made two container ships crash into each other in a storm, far out at sea, and some of the humans managed to escape in lifeboats. We were all up all night hunting down the survivors. It was madness!” Even though Catarina’s words were critical, her eyes were shining from the memory. “One man I don’t know how he managed to resist her. Marina was a singer like no one I’ve ever heard; her voice could swallow a ship whole. But he held out, so three of us shot up from beneath his lifeboat and capsized it. Marina pulled him under herself.” Luce couldn’t help feeling dismayed by the story, but Jenna was laughing. No wonder those two had become such good friends, Luce thought bitterly. Jenna shared Catarina’s ferocity, her rage at humans. Luce had been surprised to discover that even Dana was excited by the thought of sinking ships; she agreed that humans deserved it. After all, they’d left fourteen orphans alone with a homicidal lunatic, and no one had done the smallest thing to protect them. Dana was eager to try singing to a ship as soon as possible, but Catarina insisted that they had to wait a while longer. Too many ships sinking soon after one another might make the humans suspicious.

“What happened to her?” Luce asked hesitantly. “To 146 i LOST VOICES

Marina?” Catarina suddenly turned somber and stared down, and Jenna glared at Luce.

“She wasn’t talking to you,” Jenna snarled. “And you should know not to go around asking questions like that! Like, do you ever think that maybe there are some things Cat doesn’t want to be reminded of?”

Luce’s face turned hot, and her only comfort was the thought that Jenna couldn’t sing at all. The two new mermaids who showed signs of real talent were Dana and the fragile, skittish little blond girl, Rachel, the one who had insisted on the first day that she wasn’t crazy. Secretly Luce thought that Rachel was a little crazy.

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