Oddest of All by Bruce Coville

Author:Bruce Coville
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Far away, at rest in her grotto, Melusine senses that something is happening. She doesn’t know what it is, but she can feel it in her veins, the same way she always used to feel it when death was on the prowl for one of her family. She shakes her head, causing her golden tresses to slide over her bare shoulders. That was long ago. These days the bloodline is so thinned she rarely feels that acid premonition, and even then only as a faint, cold tingle.

But this—this is strong. When was it last this strong?

Shall I prepare to fly? she wonders. After all these years must I take wing once more?

No. It is not time for that. And she does not want to leave her grotto, this sacred pool that is her shelter and her temple. Not yet. There is still time.

There is always time.

Much too much of it.

The moon rises.

Melusine slides into her pool to swim.

Farther away still, on the hidden island of Avalon, another presence stirs, feeling hope for the first time in thousands of years. . . .

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