Ryan, Carrie - Hare Moon: An Original Forest of Hands and Teeth Story by Ryan Carrie

Author:Ryan, Carrie [Ryan, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Love & Romance, Girls & Women, Horror & Ghost Stories
ISBN: 9780375979996
Google: KSc4UYNY9VMC
Amazon: B004S3GPX6
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 2011-04-05T00:00:00+00:00

Tabitha has just stepped back into the Sanctuary, weak and trembling, her face pale, when the oldest Sister comes upon her. “You’re late for the Midnight Office,” she scolds. “Your face is streaked with dirt and your hair is uncombed. This is no way to come before God.”

In the past Tabitha would have seethed inside at being treated like a child, but tonight she merely nods and walks stiffly to her room. She has been in the tunnel chamber for almost an entire day, and her eyes burn, dry and painful.

She washes her face and plaits her hair and returns to the Sanctuary half asleep for the midnight prayers. It’s hard not to weave on her knees, not to rest her head against the altar railing and slip from the world.

Ruth and Ami join her. Ami keeps her head bowed, her fingers laced so tight that her knuckles blaze white, but Ruth looks Tabitha straight in the eye. “We covered for you,” she says.

Tabitha nods. “Thank you.”

“What did you find?” Ruth asks. Ami closes her eyes tightly, mumbling prayers as if trying to drown out everything around her.

Tabitha thinks of the Scripture with the journal written in the margins. She thinks of the burden of her knowledge and wonders what it would be like to share it. To seek counsel.

She thinks of telling Patrick. Of lying in the spring grass with his fingers tangled in her hair.

“A basement,” Tabitha says truthfully. “Old dusty bottles and broken shelves.” She turns her attention to the altar and the cross, though she still feels Ruth’s heavy gaze.

“That’s it?” Ruth sounds disappointed, deflated.

Tabitha nods and joins in Ami’s mumbling prayers, reciting the words without thinking or hearing or feeling them. In her mind she’s begging God to tell her what to do, what choice to make.

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