Out of the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst

Author:Sarah Beth Durst
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2010-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

He held up his hands in defense. “I was only transportation!”

“Only transportation?” She gawked at him. He was the one with Sleeping Beauty in his RV. He was the one who laid the trail that led them to the wolf! “How about ‘kidnapping’ and ‘attempted murder’?” Her voice cracked, and she realized she’d been shouting.

“Murder?” Henry yelped.

Rumpelstiltskin crumpled against the wall of the RV as Julie told him about the wolf. Henry backed away from both of them as she talked.

“I didn’t know.” Rumpelstiltskin pleaded to Henry, “I swear I didn’t know.”

Henry turned away from his dad and stared out the window at the canyon. Julie saw him wipe a cheek with the back of his fist. Later, she promised herself, she’d talk to him. She’d finally met another kid whose parent was a fairy-tale character! They had a lot to talk about—if he was ever willing to speak to her again.

In a whisper, Rumpelstiltskin said, “Tell me how I can make it better.”

He couldn’t, she thought. The wolf was dead. The Wild was growing. And Sleeping Beauty . . . “You can wake Sleeping Beauty!” Julie exclaimed. Yes, that was perfect! “It’s not a fairy-tale moment if the villain kisses her, right?” They could wreck the kidnappers’ plans right here!

“I . . . suppose it’s not,” Rumpelstiltskin said.

“He’s not a prince,” Dad objected. “It may not work. She might not wake.”

Still facing the window, Henry gave a choked laugh. This all had to feel like a nightmare to him. His world was turning upside down. But Julie couldn’t think about him right now. Pay attention, she told herself. You can stop the kidnappers’ plan right here. “Just try it,” she said to Rumpelstiltskin. “Please.”

Rumpelstiltskin knelt by Sleeping Beauty. Julie held her breath. Would it work? Dad was right; Rumpelstiltskin wasn’t a prince. What if it didn’t work?

Henry interrupted, his voice even more strained, “Uh . . . ’Scuze me? Which one of you brought the dragon?”

Julie turned, and her stomach lurched. Out the window, a dragon—its wings spread radiantly against the dying sun—rose out of the Grand Canyon.

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