Robin Hood, the One Who Looked Good in Green by Wendy Mass

Author:Wendy Mass [Mass, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2018-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

The next hour feels like ten. I’m trying my best to comfort Marian, but I’m not sure it’s working. She keeps clenching and unclenching her hands, and every few minutes she checks her face in the reflection of the dashboard when she thinks I’m not looking. She shouldn’t worry; she’s just as beautiful in the middle of outer space as she was on Delta Z.

Oh man, even Will would make fun of me for being so corny.

Everything has moved so quickly since her arrival that I haven’t had a second to think about the hugeness of what I’m doing. Now we have plenty of seconds. Too many seconds. And all I’m doing is thinking. What if Prince John wrote down fake coordinates that don’t actually lead anywhere? Or, worse yet, will lead us out of the galaxy, where even our full tank of Aloxxite won’t be able to get us back? The other option — that they’re real — isn’t much better. Going to Earth — a planet I’d always been grateful not to live on — was crazy enough, but at least it was close by, and I’d be going with a native. None of the other known habitable planets have fared much better than Earth. Sure, some still have a few patches of land where things grow, and some managed to escape the devastation of wars, but most places these days don’t take kindly to strangers.

I reach out and take Marian’s hand in mine again. She squeezes back.

Finally, FINALLY, something changes outside the window. The darkness around us is lightening up ever so slightly. I check the dashboard screen. We’re out of light speed! With no warning, a brightness the likes of which I’ve never seen surrounds our tiny ship, instantly blinding us.

We fling our hands in front of our eyes. I press my palms down hard, trying to quell the searing pain. “Wha — what was that?”

“It was a star,” she replies. “We flew extremely close to it. Space lit up like that on the Royal Horizon when we passed the sun, but not nearly as bright. The ship must have had shields up to protect our eyes.”

“Is it bright like this on Earth?” I ask, unable to move my hands away. If she says yes, it’ll be a good reason to be glad we’re not landing there.

“No,” she says. “It lights everything up, but as long as you don’t look right up at it, the sun is only a small yellow ball in the sky. I mean, that’s what it’s like on Earth, at least …” Her voice trails away at the end, and I’m guessing she has the same worries that I do about where we’re heading.

“We’re past it now,” Marian tells me, resting her hand on my arm. “I think you can open your eyes.”

Slowly, I lower my hands and blink away the black spots floating across my vision. My eyes still ache, but the brightness has dimmed enough that the pain is bearable. The light illuminates the scene around us, and I realize the view has changed again.

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