Rainbow in the Mist by Phyllis A. Whitney

Author:Phyllis A. Whitney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media Romance
Published: 2017-08-29T17:47:32+00:00

10

When they reached the house, Leonie hurried upstairs to Deirdre’s room. The door stood open and she beckoned them in.

An upheaval had struck the room. Drawers had been opened and their contents strewn on the floor. Deirdre’s desk was piled with its own contents. The bedspread had been pulled off and wadded at the foot of the bed.

In the midst of all this confusion Donny sat cross-legged on the floor. Tear streaks had dried on his face, and he stared at them bleakly. From the top of a bookcase behind him, Sinh watched with cold unblinking blue eyes—thinking her own strange thoughts?

Nona sat down opposite Donny. “Would you like to tell us what has happened?”

He shook his head, scowling.

“He won’t tell me anything,” Leonie said from the doorway.

Lili spoke softly in her musical voice. “I am Chrystal’s mother, and I know you’re Donny Mitchell. We’d like to help you, if you’ll tell us what’s the matter.”

Lili’s charm had no effect at all on Donny and he turned his head away.

Christy tried, keeping her tone matter-of-fact and calm. “You know, Donny, when something gets really bad, everybody needs help. Can we help you find what you’re looking for? Maybe we can all look together.”

Perhaps because she had read Rose’s book to the cows, Donny trusted her a little. “It’s gone!” he told her. “I’ve looked everywhere and I can’t find it. So maybe my mother came and took it away. She always told me there was something magic about it. But if she came, she didn’t stop to see me—and when I met her in the woods she just ran off in the mist.”

There was so much pain and longing in his voice that Christy ached for him. “Tell us what is missing. If we know what to look for—”

He got up from the floor and went to his mother’s armchair. “It’s that embroidery she was making. My mother left it in this chair the last time she was here. And Dad said to let everything stay as it was, so when she came back she’d know where her things were. That’s what he thought at first.”

Sinh raised her head and mewed plaintively. Perhaps she missed her mistress’s presence in this room.

“Do you mean that rainbow needlepoint she was working on?” Christy asked.

He nodded gloomily and she dropped to her knees beside him.

“I remember that very well,” she told him. “It was nearly finished, wasn’t it? A rainbow with all the colors worked in. One end of the rainbow seemed to be on fire, and the other end was lost in a storm. Did she ever talk to you about what it meant, Donny?”

He seemed pleased that she remembered. “She told me one time that a rainbow could rise out of trouble and still be bright and beautiful. That’s why I wanted to find it—so I could see if that was true.”

“I can understand how you feel.” Christy pushed a little harder. “Did she talk to you about what trouble the rainbow was rising from?”

“I asked her, but she wouldn’t tell me.

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