Reckless II by Cornelia Funke

Author:Cornelia Funke [Cornelia Funke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782691280
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2016-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

She made one more stop before continuing on to Gargantua. The house was dilapidated, and the grave by the crumbled garden wall was overgrown, its headstone poking out from a thick nest of grass and roots. A hazel bush had sprung up in front of it. The branches were covered in catkins, and beneath them lay a few nuts from the previous autumn. The moss grew thick on her father’s engraved name, etching it in green letters onto the gray stone: Joseph Marie Auger.

Fox had come here often as a child. She’d pluck the grass from the damp soil, place wildflowers on the stone, and search the abandoned house for signs of the life she and her mother might have had there. This was where she’d met the vixen for the first time, and it was in the woods bordering the crumbled wall that she had saved the wounded fox and her pups from Gustave’s and Rene’s clubs.

“I know, I haven’t been back in a while,” she said. “I asked Maman for the ring. I’m not sure she used your gift wisely. Sometimes I wish you’d let her die and kept the years you gave her for yourself. You can only say this to a grave, but it feels good to say it. Maybe you could have protected me. I’ve found someone who did that for these past years. There’s nobody I love more. He’s looked out for me so often, but now it’s my turn to protect him.”

Fox gathered the nuts from the grave and put them in her pocket. Then she swung herself onto her horse. The sun was already quite low, and Jacob didn’t have time to wait for her.

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