Rose Eagle by Joseph Bruchac

Author:Joseph Bruchac
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Published: 2014-10-08T14:35:48+00:00

It was such a nice song. And his voice was good singing it. It sort of hypnotized me, listening to it, taking me to such a peaceful place.

“I never heard that song before,” I said.

I hadn’t meant to say anything. The words just came out.

“I made it up,” Phil said. “You like it?”

He made it up. Jeez! Probably for some other girl back at the Ridge, one of those pretty little things who were always smiling at him. One of the girls who’d always made fun of me for being so big.

I stood up, more abruptly than I meant to, spilling my badger friend out of my lap.

“I’m . . . I’m tired,” I said. I went to the lev-truck, climbed up, threw myself onto the reclined chair I’d chosen, and covered myself with the thin thermal blanket from my pack. With the blanket over my head, I pretended to be asleep when Phil joined me on the other chair.

But I wasn’t asleep. Too many confusing thoughts were wrestling with each other in my head. I heard a scraping of claws against metal, a weight on my legs, and then the badger burrowed his furry muscular little body under my blanket with me. Apparently I was forgiven for the unceremonious way I had flopped him off my lap. That was when I finally drifted off — with the words of Phil’s damn sweet song echoing in my mind.

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