Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody

Author:Isobelle Carmody [Isobelle Carmody]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-04-12T12:57:22.405000+00:00

The next night, Cameo woke me again with her nightmares and again I tried to get through to her. She raved about wolves and hidden power and birds. I even debated waking her, except that I had once heard it was dangerous to wake someone who was dreaming. I didn't know if this was a dream or not. In the end I told Dameon because I was so worried.

"Poor Cameo," he said. "I'm afraid whatever is being done isn't helping her much."

"She looks terrible," I agreed. "Pale and lifeless. But I don't know what to do. What about sleep drugs?"

Dameon said he did not think they were the answer. "I think she would still dream," he said. "We have to find out why she's dreaming."

In the midst of this there were rumors that someone had tried to escape. Later I heard the Norselander twins had been involved but had been locked up. That did not surprise me. Everyone knew they thought of nothing but getting away. But the rumors said someone else had been with them.

That night I managed to get Cameo alone. Once more I asked her about the Doctor. Once again she said she didn't understand, but this time I sensed her fear and I wondered if the block was beginning to topple. It was much harder to keep a block when you were tired. I asked her if she had been having any nightmares and she burst into tears.

Relieved to have managed to break through her control, I put my arms about her.

"I'm so scared," she whispered. "It didn't seem so awful at all when I came here. Not like I expected. But now I keep dreaming of things chasing me, and of an old lady laughing." That sounded like the persona that I had seen during her nightmares. I debated whether to ask her about the Doctor again but decided against it because she looked so ill.

Suddenly I decided I would deep-probe Ariel. I wondered why I had not thought of it before. Probably because of what Dameon said about him being rotten. I thought his mind would be like stepping on something dead. But I would do it. I would find out once and for all what they were doing to Cameo.

But I forgot about that when, at the nightmeal, I heard someone ask if Selmar had been caught yet. She had been missing from her bed for more than a week. I had seen her once from a distance at rnidmeal and assumed she had been moved to another room, or had been wandering at night. Now a horrible notion formed.

"Caught?" I asked shakily, remembering the rumor that the Norselander twins had not been alone in their escape attempt. Was it possible the other person hinted at had been Selmar? Common sense said she would not be capable, but everything about Selmar was odd.

"Haven't you heard? She was with the twins when they tried to get away," said the girl beside me, confirming my worst fears.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.